Can I submit a proposal to ANNALS that has been reviewed and rejected previously?

ANNALS does not accept submissions of a previously rejected proposal. The guiding principle here is the literature on which the proposed review is based. In a sense, the literature one reviews is the ANNALS analogy of data for empirical journal submissions. Just as empirical journals such as AMJ do not accept submission of a paper based on data on which a previously rejected paper was based, ANNALS does not accept proposals for a review of a literature on substantially the same literature, for which an earlier proposal was rejected. When there is overlap in the literature reviewed but not complete overlap, the extent to which the literature reviewed is too similar to qualify for a new submission or different enough to qualify for a resubmission is an assessment made by the Editors in Chief. When you submit a proposal based on the same literature as a previously rejected proposal on the assumption that the literatures reviewed are different enough, ANNALS expects you to alert the Editors to this overlap and the submission history in a cover letter.