Comment

Extract

Having discussed this issue at three meetings of our editorial board, we were already familiar with most of the arguments presented in the thoughtful essays by Gary King and Paul Herrnson. We can confirm Herrnson's supposition that the proposed policy is controversial, and that the chief difficulty has to do with the relinquishing of what might be called intellectual property before its creators have fully exploited it. Although we have decided to wait until a thorough discussion of the issue is conducted under the auspices of the APSA before finally deciding on a policy, any statement we might require of authors as a condition of publication in The Journal of Politics is likely to fall considerably short of what King recommends.