Editor's Note

• Date: 01 April 1995
• DOI: 10.1177/1532673X9502300201
• Published date: 01 April 1995
• Author: James Garand
• Subject Matter: Articles

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EDITOR’S

NOTE

Faithful

readers

of

the

American

Politics

Quarterly

have,

no

doubt,

become

used

to

the

star-studded

cover

that

has

graced

the journal

since

its

inception

in

1973.

These

same

faithful

readers

were

probably

surprised

to

find

that

the

cover

of APQ

no

longer

has

the

same

look

that

it

has

had

over

the

past

20-odd

years.

Just

as

recent

events

have

forced

observers

to

realize

that

the

Berlin

Wall,

baseball

in

October,

and

Democratic

control

of

the

U.S.

House

of

Representatives

are

not

immune

to

change,

so

it

is

also

the

case

with

regard

to

the

cover

of

APQ.

Beginning

with

the

January

1995

issue,

we

have

begun

to

package

APQ

differently.

To

be

sure,

the

inside

of

APQ

has

not

changed.

We

will

continue

to

publish

high-quality

empirical

research

on

American

politics,

and

will

do

so

in

the

readable

presentation

style

that

has

been

the

hallmark

of

APQ.

But

the

production

staff

at

Sage,

the

editorial

board

members

of

APQ,

and

I

thought

that

a

fresh

new

look

for

the

cover

of

the

journal

was

in

order.

Obviously,

we

hope

that

APQ

readers

will

agree!

This

issue

of

the

American

Politics

Quarterly

is

a

special

issue

devoted

to

the

subject

of

&dquo;Legislative

Redistricting

in

the

1980s

and

1990s.&dquo;

Clearly,

legislative

redistricting

has

been

a

topic

that

has

garnered

considerable

attention

in

recent

years.

Scholars

have

been

concerned

about

the

partisan

and

race-based

aspects

of

legislative

redistricting,

and

the

issues

surrounding

the

causes

and

effects

of

the

drawing

of

new

district

lines

cut

to

the

core

of

prevailing

notions

of

the

meaning

of

representative

government

in

the

United

States.

Clearly,

redistricting

&dquo;matters&dquo;

for

our

political

system.

Scholars

of

legislative

politics

have

just

in

recent

years

begun

to

understand

how

it

matters.

The

articles

published

in

this

issue

of

APQ

were

presented

origi-

nally

at

the

Hendricks

Symposium

on

Legislative

Redistricting,

held

in

April

1994

at

the

University

of

Nebraska,

Lincoln.

This

conference

was

organized

by

John

Comer

and

Robert

Sittig,

both of

whom

are

professors

in

the

Department

of

Political

Science

at

UNL.

Professors

AMERICAN

POLITICS

QUARTERLY,

Vol

23

No. 2,

Apnl

1995

139-140

@

1995

Sage

Publications,

Inc