On the editorial transition

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For more than two decades, Constitutional Political Economy has occupied an important space in academia at the edges of economics, political science, law, and political philosophy. As new editors of the journal, we will do our best to assure that Constitutional Political Economy continues to play that role in the years to come. The field of Constitutional Political Economy is arguably one of the most important fields in the social sciences. The speed at which it has developed in particular in the past two decades is breathtaking. When the journal was founded, scholars in the field were primarily interested in normative and methodological issues. Positive empirical work on the cross-country, state, and communal effects of constitutions emerged in the decades after its founding. Recent work notes that constitutions are adopted at some point and revised. The new work explores the factors that make different societies choose very different—or very similar—constitutional rules. As editors, we look forward to receiving submissions from all areas and approaches in the field. …