Politics & Policy
Published on behalf of the Policy Studies Organization and several additional organizations
Edited by:
Emma R. Norman and David Mena
Now in its 38th year of publication, Politics & Policy presents peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of major disciplines and subfields spanning the entire political science and policy studies spectrum, including public policy, political science, political history, political sociology, public administration, and international relations. It seeks to bring together research of a contemporary nature on these topics from a variety of disciplines and international perspectives.
Politics & Policy is published on behalf of the Policy Studies Organization and the following organizations: (click links for more information)
Alabama Political Science Association
British Columbia Political Studies Association
Georgia Poltical Science Association
Great Plains Political Science Association
Louisiana Political Science Association
Mississippi Political Science Association
New York State Political Science Association
North Carolina Political Science Association
Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists
TopNews and Announcements
Special Issue - August 2009!
Elections, Parties and Voters in the New European Democracies: Twenty Years after the Fall of Communism
Guest edited by Mary Stegmaier, University of Virginia
Representational Consistency: Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe
Stephen Whitefield and Robert Rohrschneider
Abstain or Rebel: Corruption Perceptions and Voting in East European Elections
Tatiana Kostadinova
Post-Communist Mandates
Christine S. Lipsmeyer
Are Mixed Electoral Systems the Best Choice for Central and Eastern Europe or the Reason for Defective Party Systems?
Daniel Bochsler
Learning the Economic Vote: Hungarian Forecasts, 1998-2010
Mary Stegmaier and Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Poland: Parties without a Party System
Frances Millard
The Endurance of the Czech Communist Party
Mary Stegmaier and Klára Vlachová
Toward A More Useful Conceptualization of Populism: Types and Degrees of Populist Appeals in the Case of Slovakia
Kevin Deegan-Krause and Tim Haughton
What's Left Behind When the Party's Over: Survey Experiments on the Effects of Partisan Cues in Putin's Russia
Ted Brader and Joshua Tucker
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Upcoming Special Issue - June 2010!
The Search for Legitimacy in Asia
Guest edited by John Kane and Haig Patapan (Griffith University, Australia) and Loy Hui Chieh (National University of Singapore)
Introduction: The Search for Legitimacy in Asia
John Kane, Loy Hui Chieh, and Haig Patapan
Reclaiming Legitimacy in China
Heike Holbig and Bruce Gilley
Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Historical Roots and Contemporary Deficits
William Case
Political Legitimacy in Vietnam: Challenge and Response
Carlyle A. Thayer
Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy and Islam
Greg Barton
When Notions of Legitimacy Conflict: The Case of Thailand
Björn Dressel
Political Legitimacy in Singapore
Benjamin Wong and Xunming Huang
Legitimacy under Military Rule: Burma
Stephen McCarthy
Legitimacy Deficit in Japan:The Road to True Popular Sovereignty
Haruko Satoh
Recovering Justice: Political Legitimacy Reconsidered
John Kane and Haig Patapan
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Best Paper Award 2008
The Editors of Politics & Policy are pleased to announce the winners of the Politics & Policy Award for the Best Paper published in the journal in 2008. The nominating committee comprised Riccardo Pelizzo (Griffith University), John E. Owens (University of Westminster), and Henry B. Sirgo (McNeese University).
The 2008 winners are:
Victor Lapuente, The Quality of Government Institute Department of Political Science, Göteborg University
and
Remo Fernández-Carro, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The winning article was "Political Regimes, Bureaucracy, and Scientific Productivity," Politics and Policy 36, 6 (December 2008): 1006-1043, in which Lapuente and Fernández-Carro proposed a simple game-theoretical model in order to understand the trust problem in the relationship between scientists and the governments that pay them. The Editors will present the prize at the APSA Meeting, 2009. Many congratulations to both of our winners.
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Call for Papers
Politics & Policy is interested in individual manuscript submissions that are creative, provide innovative insights, and/or synthesize previous research in public policy, political theory, political history, political sociology, public administration, and international relations. As a generalist journal, we seek to bring together research of a contemporary nature on these topics from a variety of disciplines, methodologies and especially from diverse international perspectives. In so doing, the journal's objective is to offer readers both updated contributions in their own field and fresh viewpoints from beyond it.
Call for Review Essays and Book Reviews
In 2009, we are especially interested in considering review essays of three or more recent titles in the fields of political science and international relations. Also, see our dynamic review section for single books available for review, or contact our Book Review Editor with your innovative ideas or suggestions for new books to review.
Click HERE for Submission Guidelines
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New York Times Spotlights Politics & Policy
New York Times, June 2008
TopHighlights
Ideological Realignment in the American Electorate: A Comparison of Northern and Southern White Voters in the Pre-Reagan, Reagan, and Post-Reagan Eras
Alan I. Abramowitz and H. Gibbs Knotts
Introduction: Politics and Policy in America's 'War' on Terror
John E. Owens and John W. Dumbrell
Dealing with Fear: Implementing the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Attack
Saki Ruth Dockrill
Previewing Policy Sciences: Multiple Lenses and Segmented Visions
Thomas A.P. Sinclair
Women Candidates and the Media: 1992-2000 Elections
Farida Jalalzai
Executive Power, the War on Terrorism, and the Idea of Rights
T. Clay Arnold
What Makes Public Accounts Committees Work? A Comparative Analysis
Riccardo Pelizzo, Rick Stapenhurst, Vinod Sahgal and William Woodley
Identity Theory and Foreign Policy: Explaining Japan's responses to the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq
Amy L. Catalinac
