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<em>Public Opinion Quarterly</em>: The 2008 Election
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Public Opinion Quarterly: The 2008 Election A Non-APSA Publication

Public Opinion Quarterly seeks submissions for a special issue of the journal devoted to an examination of the 2008 election.   The issue is scheduled to be published in December, 2009.

We invite contributions on all topics related to the 2008 election, and we especially elcome submissions that are both substantive and methodological in nature.  Potential topics might include (but are not limited to): the performance of pre-election polls, the impact of new technologies on election polling, social desirability effects in polling about race and gender, measurement issues in evaluating policy attitudes, the estimation of campaign effects, and the implications of early voting for election polling.

The deadline for manuscript submissions is May 15, 2009.  To submit a manuscript, please follow the manuscript preparation instructions provided at the journal's website ( http://poq.oupjournals.org/http://poq.oupjournals.org/). Blinded and unblinded electronic copies of the paper should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/poq, and it should be clearly stated in a cover letter that the manuscript is for consideration in the 2008 election special issue.  Submissions will be peer-reviewed in accord with normal journal practice.

For queries about this special issue, please feel free to contact the special issue guest editor, Sunshine Hillygus at hillygus@fas.harvard.edu .