Instructions for Reviewers
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Reviewers will be contacted electronically.
In our requests to reviewers, we ask
for two broad classes of evaluations.
(1) An overall evaluation for the Editor’s eyes only of the manuscript titled:__________________________
REVIEWER’S RESPONSE IS DUE: _______
Please return
your review via email attachment, if possible. Word, WordPerfect, or
Rich Text are the preferred formats.
IN the body of your message, please include responses to the
following questions, as well as any comments for the editor only.
Email address:
sppq@dartmouth.edu.
Please
indicate your overall assessment of the manuscript on the following
items.
A.)
Qualitatively, this manuscript is:
___ 1.) a
major contribution to political science
___ 2.) a
significant contribution to political science
___ 3.) a
modest contribution to political science
___ 4.) a
marginal contribution, if any contribution at all.
B.) The
manuscript would be of interest to:
___ 1.)
virtually all political scientists
___ 2.)
virtually all political scientists who study state politics and
policy
___ 3.)
scholars of state politics in more than one sub-field
___ 4.) only
those scholars of state politics in a single narrow sub-field
___ 5.) few,
if any, political scientists.
C.) The
manuscript should be:
___ 1.)
published in its current form, subject to minor editorial changes
___ 2.)
published, subject to limited revisions specified in the text of my
review
___ 3.)
revised and resubmitted to SPPQ, based on suggestions specified in the text of
my review (Note: Use this category only if your suggestions are specific
and you feel the author could reasonably carry them out.)
___ 4.)
rejected.
If you feel
the manuscript ought to be rejected by SPPQ, what other publication
outlets might the author try?
Are there
other comments that you wish to share only with the editors?
_______________________________________
(2) We also seek comments from the reviewer TO be shared with THE author(s) of the manuscript.