SLGR—An Interchange for Ideas

• Author: Kimberly Nelson,Eric Zeemering
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Date: 01 March 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X211014043
• Subject Matter: Editorial

Editorial

SLGR—An Interchange

for Ideas

Kimberly Nelson

1

and Eric Zeemering

2

In 1968, State and Local Government Review

(SLGR) began as the Georgia Government

Review at the Carl Vinson Institute of Govern-

ment at the University of Georgia. With this

issue, the editorial home of the journal moves

to the School of Government at the University

of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the School

of Public and International Affa irs at the Uni-

versity of Georgia. We thank our predecessors

for their stewardship of the journal.

Through the years, SLGR stands out as a

journal that advances our theoretical under-

standing of state and local public administra-

tion and policy while also framing practical

implications for government professionals

working in the field. C. David Billings (197 6)

described the journal as a “national interchange

of ideas for practitioners, academics, and insti-

tutes of government.” Now published quarterly

and affiliated with the American Society for

Public Administration’s (ASPA) Section on

Intergovernmental Administration and Man-

agement, the journal enters its 53rd volume

with great potential to advance our understand-

ing of subnational governance in the United

States and around the globe, particularly within

federal systems of government. As co-editors,

we see State and Local Government Review

as the premier journal of scholarship, practical

engagement, and discourse on state and local

governance.

With this volume and the start of our term as

co-editors, we introduce several changes to the

journal. This year, the editorial te am is driven

by two equally important goals. First, we seek

timely publication of each issue. In recent

years, the journal has experienced publication

delays, and issues of the journal have not

always reached the mailboxes of subscribers

on time. Publication delays hinder the journal’s

consideration for inclusion in scholarly indices

that assess the journal’s quality and impact,

metrics that are increasingly important to

authors. We will return SLGR to on-time publi-

cation by the end of the current volume year.

Readers and authors deserve four on-time

issues each year. Currently, we are engaged in

outreach to solicit new manuscript submissions

to build a strong list of online advance access

content so the journal can publish each issue

on time. We encourage you to submit your best

research to SLGR, and we ask you to share

information about the journal with your

colleagues.

Second, we seek to publish high-quality,

illuminating research in the journal. All

research articles and field notes will receive

rigorous double-blind peer-review. We view

rigor and relevance as complementary values

(Nesbitetal.2011).OnlythePerspectives

Essays and Response Essays, which we

describe below, will receive only editorial

review. As readers scan the table of contents,

1

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

2

University of Georgia, GA, USA

Corresponding Author:

Eric Zeemering, University of Georgia.

Email: slgr@uga.edu

State and Local GovernmentReview

2021, Vol. 53(1) 3-5

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