The purpose of American Politics Quarterly is to promote and disseminate high-quality research in all areas of American politics, including local, state, and national politics. APQ will publish significant studies concerning American political behavior, political parties, public opinion, legislative behavior, courts and the legal process, executive and administrative politics, public policy, and all other topics appropriate to our understanding of American government and politics. Manuscripts from all social science disciplines are welcomed.

Journal of Public Policy publishes research that applies social scientific theories and concepts to significant problems of public policy are political, economic and social, and articles in the journal deal with broad questions of relevance to social scientists and policy-makers.

A study of the United States Constitution and the Federalist papers, by James B. Plair.