Over the last several months, articles published
in State and Local Government Review
have received increased attention as featured content on state, national, and
international blogs. Most recently, an
article by Kathleen Marchetti entitled “Consider the Context: How State Policy
Environments Shape Interest Group Advocacy” (Volume 47, September 2015 issue)
was the subject of a blog post on the London School of Economics (LSE), US
Centre’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy (USAPP). Earlier this year, the same blog highlighted
research from Marcia L. Godwin’s article “Civic Engagement and Fiscal Stress in
American Cities: Insights from the Great
Recession” (SLGR 2014 Special Issue: Volume 47, December issue).
At the state and local
government level, blogs statescoop and Route 50 spotlighted work from Lowatcharin
and Menifield’s SLGR article “Determinants of Internet-Enabled Transparency at
the Local Level: A Study of Midwestern County Websites” (Volume 47, June 2015
issue).
Blogs are a great venue for
connecting SLGR-published research with practitioners. For example, a link to Godwin’s blog post was
emailed by Public Agenda staff to a participatory budgeting research group and
the executive director of a participatory politics organization also tweeted
about the relevance of the post. Sage,
the publishers of SLGR, provided a link to the original article, which led to
Godwin’s article being the most read SLGR article for the month when the blog
was posted.
Links to all blogs and
articles mentioned above are available on the SLGR blog at
slgrjournal.wordpress.com. Please check
them out and join the dialogue.
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