美國政治發展研究（SAPD）是一本政治科學期刊，成立于1986年，現由劍橋大學出版社出版。它是美國政治發展（APD）子領域政治科學的旗艦雜志。SAPD出版了有關美國政治發展和制度變遷的理論和實證研究。它以各種各樣的主題和方法為特色，包括比較、跨學科和國際研究，闡明了美國的案例。期刊文章通常側重于政府機構隨時間的演變及其社會、經濟和文化背景。這本雜志每年出版兩次，分別在4月和10月出版。該期刊以發表比政治科學期刊普遍發表的文章要長得多（長達75頁）。[1]例如，提交給《美國政治科學評論》（American Political Science Review）的論文最長為45頁。SAPD由政治科學家Karen Orren和Stephen Skowronek創立[3]目前的編輯是加利福尼亞大學的Eric Schickler和Robin Einhom、伯克利大學的Berkeley和西北大學的Anthony Chen[4]它有助于促進APD作為政治學學科中一個獨特和受歡迎的子領域的發展。L Science.【需要引文】SAPD的編輯咨詢委員會包括政治學和歷史學家，包括Joyce Appleby、Walter Dean Burnham、Victoria Hattam、Ira Katznelson、Theodore Lowi、Theda Skocpol、Rogers Smith和Daniel Carpenter。【5】SAPD的編輯和許多編輯顧問還擔任主席一職。美國政治科學協會政治和歷史科的T。根據期刊引文報告，該期刊2014年的影響因子為0.667，在“政治科學”類161種期刊中排名第89位。

Studies in American Political Development (SAPD) is a political science journal founded in 1986 and presently published by Cambridge University Press. It is the flagship journal of the American political development (APD) subfield in political science.SAPD publishes theoretical and empirical research on political development and institutional change in the United States. It features a diverse range of subject matters and methodologies, including comparative, interdisciplinary, and international studies that illuminate the American case. Journal articles usually focus on the evolution of governmental institutions over time and on their social, economic and cultural setting.The journal is published twice per year, in April and October. The journal is noted for publishing much longer articles - up to 75 pages - than is common among political science journals.[1] For example, the maximum length for papers submitted to the American Political Science Review is 45 pages.[2]SAPD was founded by political scientists Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek.[3] Its current editors are Eric Schickler and Robin Einhom of the University of California, Berkeley and Anthony Chen of Northwestern University.[4] It has been instrumental in fostering the growth of APD as a distinct and popular subfield within the discipline of political science.[citation needed] SAPD's editorial advisory board includes leading political scientists and historians including Joyce Appleby, Walter Dean Burnham, Victoria Hattam, Ira Katznelson, Theodore Lowi, Theda Skocpol, Rogers Smith, and Daniel Carpenter.[5] The editors and numerous editorial advisers for SAPD have also served a term as president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.[citation needed]According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.667, ranking it 89th out of 161 journals in the category "Political Science".