About the Project

The GSP is the only comprehensive source of gubernatorial documents on the internet. Non-profit and nonpartisan, we are hosted in a joint effort by Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University.

We will soon release an interactive version of the website that includes the ability to search for and review any gubernatorial State of the State address in the database. Sign up here for updates and data releases.

Forthcoming Paper

The data supporting this website were collected to publish the following paper (downloadable here):

Butler, Daniel M. and Sutherland, Joseph L. 2022. “Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?” Forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.

For the current release of text features, please see our Harvard Dataverse entry once the paper is published (the database is not released until the paper is published).