Political Studies Review
British Government and Politics | Politics & International Relations | Politics (General)
Political Studies Review (PSR) provides a unique intellectual space for rigorous high-quality peer reviewed original research across political science and the study of politics in related fields that aims at stimulating wide-ranging debate and cutting-edge discussion of current disputes and issues in the discipline within the UK and internationally. The journal seeks to demonstrate the essential utility of political science through enhancing understanding and dialogue both within the political science profession, across disciplinary subfields and outside the scholarly community. PSR welcomes original and rigorous research articles, far-reaching and stimulating state-of-the-art articles, and shorter contributions presenting early results, new ideas, or interesting hypotheses that had to be rejected. PSR is one of the Political Studies Association’s flagship journals.
The PSA acknowledges the prevalence of systemic bias and unequal power dynamics within academia and publishing. The PSA believes that the promotion of equality and diversity should be core values for the practice of politics as well as the study, teaching and writing of politics. We are passionate about supporting inclusion in the academy and wider society through our publishing activities.
Working with our journal editors and publishing partner SAGE, we are doing this by:
- Publishing and amplifying content from diverse, global perspectives, including women, scholars of colour, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and historically marginalised communities.
- Working to increase diversity of our journals’ editorial boards, peer review processes and author bases.
- Ensuring that our content and communications are inclusive and accessible, challenging bias and stereotypes.
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Political Studies Review (PSR) provides a unique intellectual space for rigorous high-quality peer reviewed original research across political science and related fields. It aims to stimulate wide-ranging debate and cutting edge discussion of current disputes and issues in the discipline both within the UK and across the globe. The journal seeks to demonstrate the essential utility of political science through enhancing understanding and dialogue both within the political science profession, across disciplinary subfields and outside the scholarly community. It therefore aims to be more eclectic in terms of content, style and subject matter to maximise public reach.
PSR publishes six types of contributions.
1) Original research articles: the journal is a forum for innovative, rigorous and original work of significance to the discipline. Such work may be theoretical in nature, it may have a comparative focus, and/or it may cut across traditional scholarly fields and push disciplinary boundaries.
2) Early Results: PSR welcomes short articles detailing exciting early findings or exploring new ideas that are of immediate interest to our readers. Authors can submit early results without excessive theoretical set-up or literature review for an expedited review and publication process (limited to one reviewer and one editor). Publication of such papers does not prevent authors from later fashioning them into full-length articles for publication elsewhere.
3) Symposia and new ideas: PSR welcomes short pieces based on symposia that are early versions of what may become more extensive articles, exploring and fleshing out new ideas and directions for study. Such symposia will be subject to an expedited review and publication process (limited to one reviewer and one editor).
4) The null hypothesis: PSR is an outlet for interesting findings where the authors had sound theoretical reasons for stipulating hypotheses, but had to be reject these. Papers submitted for this section will be subject to an expedited review and publication process (limited to one reviewer and one editor).
5) Review articles: The journal is also the setting for significant and encompassing state-of-the-art reviews on significant issues across the discipline.
6) Book Reviews: PSR publishes book reviews of recent volumes on cutting-edge topics. Book reviews are published online only.
Further Details
As editors, we encourage a pluralistic approach where current empirical and theoretical problems across the subfields of politics are addressed in an innovative, reflexive and insightful manner. We therefore welcome submissions across a wide-range of methodological or theoretical frameworks in political science but which conform to the highest standards of scientific rigour and research ethics. All published material will include technical research reports and appendices, where applicable, to enhance replicability. The journal is committed to high quality peer reviewing, from enhancing new ideas and promoting promising scholarly research, to nurturing broader public discussion and publicising important scholarly topics, ideas and innovative practice in political science.
PSR particularly encourages contributions from early career researchers.
| Martin Ejnar Hansen | Brunel University London, UK |
| Steve Pickering | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt | Brunel University London, UK |
| Justin Fisher | Brunel University London, UK |
| Naveen Shaaban Abdalla | Brunel University London, UK |
| Stuart Fox | Brunel University London, UK |
| Jeffrey Karp | Brunel University London, UK |
| Daniela Richterova | Brunel University London, UK |
| Manu Savani | Brunel University London, UK |
| Eliza Kania | Brunel University London, UK |
| Octávio Amorim Neto | FGV-Rio, Brazil |
| Phillip Ayoub | Drexel University , USA |
| Teresa Bejan | University of Oxford, UK |
| Shaun Bevan | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Andre Blais | Université de Montréal, Canada |
| Adrian Blau | King's College London, UK |
| Svitlana Chernykh | Australian National University, Australia |
| Scarlett Cornelissen | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Jennifer Curtin | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Sarah de Lange | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Fabrizio Gilardi | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Jane Gingrich | University of Oxford, UK |
| Oliver Heath | Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
| Evelyne Hübscher | Central European University, Austria |
| Will Jennings | University of Southampton, UK |
| Meryl Kenny | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Christoph Knill | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
| Shoko Kohama | Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Naoko Matsumura | Kobe University, Japan |
| Gail McElroy | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Peace Medie | University of Ghana, Ghana/University of Bristol, UK |
| Laura Morales | Sciences Po, France |
| Doron Navot | University of Haifa, Israel |
| Alejandro Peña | University of York, UK |
| Jennifer Piscopo | Occidental College, USA |
| Miriam Ronzoni | University of Manchester, UK |
| Anupama Roy | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Sabine Saurugger | Sciences Po Grenoble |
| Jennifer van Heerde-Hudson | University College London, UK |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.