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Statistics, Politics and Policy

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Statistics, Politics and Policy publishes research at the intersection of statistical analysis, politics, and public policy. The journal welcomes a wide range of empirical and methodological contributions that apply statistical thinking to the study of political processes, policy design and evaluation, and the broader social, economic, and institutional contexts in which policy is made and implemented.

As the volume and complexity of data relevant to political and policy questions continue to grow, the need for rigorous, transparent, and context-sensitive statistical analysis has become ever more pressing. The journal provides a forum for research that applies and develops statistical methodologies to investigate political and policy-related questions across various fields —including political economy, public health, sociology, public opinion research, and governance studies.

Statistics, Politics and Policy fosters communication between statisticians, political scientists, policy researchers, and decision-makers. It publishes applied research articles, critical methodological reflections, research notes, and commentary pieces that address pressing public issues where statistics play – or should play – a central role. The journal's objective is to demonstrate how innovative and robust statistical analysis can deepen our understanding of politics and policy and contribute to more informed public debate and effective governance.

Statistics, Politics and Policy publishes applied research articles that use statistical methods to analyze political and policy-related issues. Submissions should typically be between 7,000 and 12,000 words in length. Please include a word count in your manuscript. All research articles are double-blind peer reviewed.

Statistics, Politics and Policy invites research notes that present new datasets, offer timely analyses of recent events, or provide brief, data-driven insights into emerging political or policy issues. These concise contributions aim to foster rapid scholarly exchange and support data sharing across disciplines. Research Notes are peer reviewed and should not exceed 4000 words, references included. Papers for the commentary section are short, ideally 600-2000 words, and are intended to be of general interest and readability. That is, they should contain deeper analysis than is found on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, but be of comparable interest for the Statistics, Politics and Policy readership.

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Policy issues and policy making

Public opinion research

Political sociology

Energy, climate change and environmental policy

Demography

Educational policy

Public finance

Taxation and economic policy

Justice and crime

Health policy and health care finance

Statistical methodology and survey methods

History and review of statistical ideas applied to public policy

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Research articles, Research notes, and commentaries

CALL FOR PAPERS
The current Call for Papers does not correspond with your research topic? Submit your paper to our regular issues if your field of research corresponds with the overall focus of Statistics, Politics and Policy. We are always looking forward to publish new and innovative contributions to the fields of political, social, economic and statistical sciences.

Topic: Elections – Electoral Systems, Campaigns and Debates – Innovations in Electoral Analysis
Submission Deadline: 31.10.2025

Please see the call details in the PDF at the bottom of this page

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From 2021 onwards, Statistics, Politics and Policy awards the Emil J. Gumbel Prize for outstanding contributions to the Journal.
All submitted full articles and research notes are eligible to win this award. The award comes with a modest financial reward of 500 $ and the full recognition regarding the merits of the published research contribution.
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From 2022 onwards, three issues/year, updated continuously
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The Impact of International Remittances on Public Debt Sustainability in Kerala: Evidence from the FMOLS Approach

19. September 2025

Anjana Sabu, Vineeth Mohandas

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Remittances from Kerala’s migrant workers and professionals constitute a vital financial inflow, surpassing their relative significance in most other Indian states. With public debt nearing 60 % of NSDP, these transfers offer a potential buffer for debt sustainability. Applying Oates’ theory within Bohn’s debt-sustainability framework using an FMOLS model, and validated through Johansen testing, this study examines the remittance–debt nexus from 1980 to 2023. FMOLS results indicate a deterioration of debt sustainability despite substantial remittance inflows. The findings emphasize the need to reduce market borrowings, enhance the fiscal role of remittances, and promote policies supporting formal transfer channels, source diversification, remittance-linked investment, and financial literacy among migrant households to strengthen Kerala’s long-term fiscal resilience and enable more productive use of remittances.
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Bayesian Analysis of Tuberculosis Cases in Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana–West Africa

19. September 2025

Ernest Zamanah, Suleman Nasiru

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Tuberculosis (TB) represents a major threat to global health security and is currently the world most deadly infectious disease. TB is noted to affect people of all age groups and exposure to the disease has been shown to exhibit variation in the risk of infection across different factors. This study was therefore carried out to identify possible disease associations of some risk factors in relation to time until onset of TB among TB infected individuals in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana. To this end, secondary data on time until onset of TB was obtained from the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital of the Upper East Region of Ghana and used for statistical analysis. In order to obtain appropriate underlying disease associations, the Bayesian approach to the modelling of survival time was employed in the statistical analyses. Thus, different parametric models including; skew normal, lognormal, shifted lognormal, exponential, Weibull and Fréchet models were fitted to the TB data within the Bayesian framework. The Weibull was the overall best fitted model. Based on the estimation results of the Bayesian Weibull regression model; individuals with no education, individuals with diabetes and males were identified as high-risk groups with shorter time frame for the onset of TB in the Bolgatanga Municipality. The study was concluded by indicating the need for Ghana Health Service to institute targeted interventions aimed at preventing and controlling the TB with special emphasis to the high-risk groups in the Bolgatanga Municipality.
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Editors’ Note

1. Januar 2000

Uwe Wagschal, Judith Reinbold, Ronald Schleehauf

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Bringing Emotions into the Study of Responsiveness: The Case of Protective Policies

1. Januar 2000

Georg Wenzelburger

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Research on representation and responsiveness is based on the idea that voters have concerns about certain policy problems and that representatives respond to these concerns with concrete policy outputs, such as laws. In addition, once adopted, this policy output can feed back on voters’ concerns which are then satisfied. Consequently, citizens do not demand more of the respective policy (negative feedback, thermostatic model (Soroka & Wlezien 2010)) or are, in contrast, incited toward demanding even more of the policy (positive feedback, policy overreaction (Maor 2014, Jones et al 2014)). In this research note, I argue that by focussing mainly on such preference-policy linkages, existing research has underestimated the role emotions play in this “chain of responsiveness” (Powell 2004), especially when it comes to protective policies, that is policies that are presented as providing protection to citizens. I propose an amended concept of responsiveness which adds an emotional layer to the existing framework and present an empirical exploration on the emotion-policy link on the micro level using data from the European Social Survey which indicates the fruitfulness to bring in emotions more plainly into the literature on responsiveness.
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Emotional Reactions to Protective Policies on the Political Spectrum

1. Januar 2000

Marta Penczek, Katarzyna Hamer

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The need for safety is one of the basic human needs. States implement different protective policies to fulfil the task of granting safety to their citizens. Aim of the present study conducted online on a representative sample of Polish citizens ( N = 1,124), was to explore emotions potentially evoked by seven protective policies in the areas of: the economy, social welfare, health, personal security from crime and terrorism, one’s own way of life, tradition and culture of the country, as well as climate and environment. It also examined the relationship between emotional responses to protective policies across these different policy areas and the political orientation of participants, together with their socio-demographic characteristics. The results showed that emotions evoked by protective policies vary across areas of protection. Only four emotions (discouragement, anxiety, disappointment, and dissatisfaction) were indicated by more than 10 % of adult Poles in all areas of protection. Age of respondents was the most systematic predictor for all policies. Although there were general trends in emotional reactions to all policies, there were also area-specific emotions and their predictors. These include policy-specific emotions such as grief in the area of economy, despair in the area of healthcare (with gender and political orientation as predictors), and pride in the area of protecting traditions and culture in Poland (with political orientation as a predictor). Protective policy regarding climate was the only one that evoked only negative emotions. The area of economy was the one with the largest number of different emotions indicated.
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Determinants of Political Instability in ECOWAS (1991–2022)

1. Januar 2000

Richard Uzoma Gbemudia, Stanley Uche Akachukwu

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This study examined GDP per Capita, military expenditure, trade openness capital formation, inflation and unemployment as determinants of political instability in ECOWAS from 1991 to 2022. Four countries in ECOWAS that have experienced military coup/political instability (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger) and another four countries that have not had military coup (Cote dÍvore, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo) were used for the study. The article modeled the independent equations for each country to show how the various countries’ cross-sectional indicators/variables affect political instability. Findings show that the major determinants of political instability in ECOWAS are GDP per Capita, military expenditure, and trade openness. GDP per Capita is negatively related to political instability in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger. A 1 %, increase in GDP leads to a, 0.067 %. 0.002 %, 0.001 % and 0.041 % in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger respectively. Military expenditure has a negative influence on political instability in Burkina Faso, and Niger but positively influences in Mali. A 1 %, increase in military expenditure in Burkina Faso and Niger reduces political instability by 0.196 % and 0.045 % respectively. Trade openness positively impacts on political instability in Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali. The statistics illustrate that a % increase in trade openness leads to about 0.0925 %, 0.029 % and 0.625 % in Burkina Faso in Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali respectively. Hence, GDP per Capita, military expenditure, trade openness, and unemployment are the main drivers of political instability in the region. The results from the four countries that did not experience democratic reversal during the study period reveal that GDP per capita, military expenditure and unemployment are significant and inversely related to political instability. The results from the aggregate analysis of the countries without military coups show that military expenditure (0.155 %), unemployment (0.164 %) and GDPC (0.00045 %) are significant and inversely related to political instability in these countries. This suggests that these countries are susceptible to political instability. Thus, the study recommends that governments in the ECOWAS region should invest in people-oriented projects to lift citizens out of poverty, cater adequately for security agencies and minimize undue interference in their economy’s economic, political and social structure by foreign actors.

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Uwe Wagschal, University of Freiburg, Germany

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David W. Nickerson, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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