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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📢 Introducing you to our issue 1/2026 in the coming days and weeks. You are welcome to delve into articles from around the globe 🌍 To start off, we share this issue's Editors' Note by Editor in Chief Uwe Wagschal and Managing Editors @judithreinbold.bsky.social & @ronaldschleehauf.bsky.social.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue on The Politics of Public Finance Guest Editor: Bernhard Kittel 📅 Submission deadline: October 31st, 2026 📩 Submit your manuscript here: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgspp 📧 Questions? Contact us at: spp@politik.uni-freiburg.de

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue on China: Politics and Policy Guest Editors: @ettensperger.bsky.social & Lars Konheiser 📅 Submission deadline: January 16, 2026 📩 Submit your manuscript here: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgspp 📧 Questions? Contact us at: spp@politik.uni-freiburg.de

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In issue 1/2025, Muchamad Bachtiar, Irdam Ahmad, Zainal Abidin Sahabuddin, and Trismadi Trismadi conduct a meta-analysis of military expenditure determinants across 15 studies. They find war, ongoing spending, and external threats to be key drivers - while national conditions correlate negatively.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In issue 1/2025, Osafu Augustine Egbon and Ezra Gayawan present a spatio-temporal model of violent conflict and fatalities in Nigeria. Using a Cox point process and SPDE approach, they analyze georeferenced conflict data to identify regional patterns and high-risk areas.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In our issue 1/2025, Aaron Cooke and John Vivian develop a restricted data-rich dynamic factor model to evaluate vaccination efficacy during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Their model can be used for other populations, as they provide an open-source Python package.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In issue 1/2025, John O’Reilly proposes the County-Elector Plan to revitalize the Electoral College. Implementable by states, it would avoid a constitutional change and future gerrymandering. Thereby, electoral competition would be shifted from a few battleground states to several hundred counties.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue on Elections We welcome contributions on: 🔹 Electoral outcomes & voting behavior 🔹 Campaigns & debates 🔹 Electoral systems & reforms 🔹 Comparative perspectives 🔹 Innovations in electoral analysis 📩 Submit your manuscript here: lnkd.in/e23ee9ik

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Issue 1/2025 of SPP is available online! It features 4 articles showing the power of quantitative methods in addressing some of the most pressing political challenges: 📌 Electoral Reform 📌 Pandemic Response 📌 Conflict Analysis 📌 Military Expenditure Access: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What drives GDP growth in Ghana? Emmanuel Amoako Koranteng, Gideon Mensah Engmann, and Dioggban Jakperik apply a hierarchical Bayesian model to analyze key macroeconomic variables in our issue 3/2024: real exchange rates, manufacturing, and government expenditure positively impact GDP growth.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Declining U.S. influence, particularly in Asia, and rising Chinese engagement: in their contribution to our issue 3/2024, Elizabeth G., Steven Kim, Nicholas Sobrepena, Stone Goethe, and Eric E. analyze media coverage across 96 African and Asian nations and find geopolitical influence.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How can we better predict municipal solid waste? In issue 3/2024, Chellai Fatih explores the power of hybrid modeling techniques to forecast municipal solid waste (MSW) generation across OECD countries. The article's findings highlight the need for data-driven waste management policies.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How predictable are election outcomes? In issue 3/2024, Richard J. Heggen and Alfred G. Cuzán develop a geometric model to analyze 1,825 elections across five federal democracies. The model incorporates the rate of incumbency decay and predicts election outcomes within a 2–3 point margin.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Can Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) capture party relations? In our issue 3/2024, Felix Wieland analyzes data from 63 editions of the German Wahl-O-Mat to track party proximities. His findings suggest that design changes have significantly altered measured proximities between major parties.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Talknice Saungweme, Glenda Maluleke, and Nicholas M. Odhiambo of the University of South Africa use a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model to study the impact of financial development on Mauritius' economic growth. The results reveal an asymmetric relationship between the two.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Marwah S. Siam, Hussein A. Sayed, and Laila O. El-Zeini of Cairo University apply a mixture-function mortality model to examine lifespan length and variation in Egypt from 1950 to 2021. The study reveals increasing longevity and a declining variation in age at death over time.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Addressing the pension conundrum, Gustavo De Santis of Università di Firenze explores a novel approach, called IPAYGO. Including demographic and economic challenges, like differential mortality and low fertility rates, IPAYGO offers a sustainable and equitable approach to pensions.

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Statistics, Politics and Policy @sppjournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The impact of an aging electorate on democratic processes is at the core of Christopher-David Preclik's introduction of "political adultism". He describes "the socially-accepted interpersonal, structural, and institutional discrimination of young and younger people in politics".

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