Politics

Politics is a generalist journal that aims to engage with the breadth of the political studies profession including academic researchers, teachers and practitioners. It publishes original research and pedagogical scholarship that advance debates in politics, political theory and international studies as well as work that challenges boundaries within the field. Politics articles will clearly show the innovative nature of their contribution as well as the debate(s) they speak to or initiate. While the research articles will often present novel empirical data, we expect that they will make significant conceptual and/or theoretical contributions to the debates they address. All research articles will show how their insights challenge both academic and non-academic audiences to see problems in politics and international relations in a new light as well as offer innovative solutions. Politics is pluralist with regards to approaches, theories, methods, and empirical foci.

Politics publishes four types of contributions:

 

• Research articles: original, research-based articles on politics, political theory or international relations (maximum 10,000 words including references and appendices). Submissions should draw on state of the art research to show historical or contemporary politics in a new light. We expect such articles to be more than simply the application of a theoretical framework to an empirical case: they should show how the interplay of research, empirical analysis and/or normative frameworks advance the field and shed new light on prominent debates in the discipline and relevant subfields. Research articles can be submitted as stand-alone pieces or as part of special issues. For special issue guidelines, please check Special Issues and Symposia.

 

• Scholarship of Learning and Teaching articles: articles engaging with pedagogical innovations and the challenges of learning and teaching in politics and international relations (maximum 10,000 words including references and appendices). These articles should be based on rigorous pedagogical scholarship that engages in theoretically informed and/or evidence-based research on the teaching of politics and international studies. We are open to articles that provide accounts of teaching innovation producing mixed results as long as the analysis of these results advances pedagogical research in politics and international studies. Learning and Teaching articles can be submitted as stand-alone pieces or as part of special issues. For special issue guidelines, please check Special Issues and Symposia.

 

• Notes that can be research-oriented or teaching and learning-related (maximum 5,000 words each including references and appendices). These can be shorter empirically-informed but less developed practice-based notes, comments on current research, methodologies, teaching practices / developments in political science and international relations learning and teaching.

 

• Article submitted as part of a symposium (of 4-5 articles), which can be research articles, teaching and learning articles or timely responses to contemporary political developments (maximum 4,000 words each including references and appendices). Symposium articles should be original, innovative articles that either substantially advance existing debates, set the agenda for new avenues of research in politics or international relations or use disciplinary insights to comment on contemporary political developments or controversies. We expect the articles to be presented in an accessible fashion (as far as possible given the content) to as wide an audience as possible. We place a premium on generalisable insights that speak across boundaries in the field. For symposium proposal guidelines, please check Special Issue and Symposia.