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24 Const. Pol. Econ. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/constpe24 and id is 1 raw text is: Const Polit Econ (2013) 24:1
DOI 10.1007/s10602-013-9133-z
On the editorial transition
Roger D. Congleton - Stefan Voigt
Published online: 31 January 2013
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
For more than two decades, Constitutional Political Economy has occupied an
important space in academia at the edges of economics, political science, law, and
political philosophy. As new editors of the journal, we will do our best to assure that
Constitutional Political Economy continues to play that role in the years to come.
The field of Constitutional Political Economy is arguably one of the most important
fields in the social sciences. The speed at which it has developed in particular in the
past two decades is breathtaking. When the journal was founded, scholars in the
field were primarily interested in normative and methodological issues. Positive
empirical work on the cross-country, state, and communal effects of constitutions
emerged in the decades after its founding. Recent work notes that constitutions are
adopted at some point and revised. The new work explores the factors that make
different societies choose very different-or very similar-constitutional rules. As
editors, we look forward to receiving submissions from all areas and approaches in
the field.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Alan Hamlin, Dennis Mueller,
and Peter Ordeshook for all their work to establish Constitutional Political Economy
as the premiere journal in this field. Our goal is to continue the fine work done by
them in the past decade. We will continue to include and seek out significant
empirical, theoretical, methodological, and philosophical contributions to the field.
A journal naturally reflects its contributors more than its editors, so you-both
readers and contributors-are the most important determinants of the journal's
continued success.
Best Regards,
Roger Congleton and Stefan Voigt
R. D. Congleton (E) - S. Voigt
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
e-mail: Roger.Congleton@mail.wvu.edu

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