Politics & Society
The Best in Critical Social Inquiry
In today's rapidly changing political and social climate, it's more important than ever for political and social scientists to keep on the cutting edge of critical and analytical thinking on issues vital to society. Politics & Society, a distinguished and respected peer-reviewed quarterly publication, is your best source for such perspectives.
Established in the late 1960s as an alternative, critical voice of the social sciences, Politics & Society publishes original analyses of politics, its social roots, and its consequences. In its broadest sense, politics encompasses conflicts over the shape and future of society. These conflicts, in countries throughout the world, play out in parliaments and civil society, in the workplace and the managerial office, the party and the bureaucracy, the NGO and the government ministry, the courtroom and the community, the military and the university, the national or global economy, the social movement and the family. The quest for a good society, both proposals pushing it and impediments blocking it, is also enduringly a part of political life, and so we welcome papers proposing radical visions and alternatives, as well as those interrogating class, racial, national, and gender inequalities. We seek papers from a variety of disciplines that combine field work or other types of empirical research with critical theoretical reflection. Papers analyzing transformations in political contention, thought, and discourse are also welcome. We look for cutting-edge work with interesting ideas, and we are open to what some have called “outrageous hypotheses” that address persisting social problems yet can neither be proved nor disproved. Chiefly, then, we seek papers that matter: that speak to pressing questions of our time, prompt serious thought and perhaps relevant action, and appeal to scholars and social actors in important and provocative ways.
Multidisciplinary Perspective
In the pages of Politics & Society, you will find theoretical articles, philosophical reflections, and empirical research reflecting a wide range of disciplines including: political science • sociology • economics • history • anthropology • philosophy • law • geography • public policy
In-Depth Coverage
Politics & Society occasionally supplements its broad coverage with comprehensive, single-theme Special Issues dedicated to select areas of interest.
Established in the late 1960s as an alternative, critical voice of the social sciences, Politics & Society publishes original analyses of politics, its social roots, and its consequences. In its broadest sense, politics encompasses conflicts over the shape and future of society. These conflicts, in countries throughout the world, play out in parliaments and civil society, in the workplace and the managerial office, the party and the bureaucracy, the NGO and the government ministry, the courtroom and the community, the military and the university, the national or global economy, the social movement and the family. The quest for a good society, both proposals pushing it and impediments blocking it, is also enduringly a part of political life, and so we welcome papers proposing radical visions and alternatives, as well as those interrogating class, racial, national, and gender inequalities. We seek papers from a variety of disciplines that combine field work or other types of empirical research with critical theoretical reflection. Papers analyzing transformations in political contention, thought, and discourse are also welcome. We look for cutting-edge work with interesting ideas, and we are open to what some have called “outrageous hypotheses” that address persisting social problems yet can neither be proved nor disproved. Chiefly, then, we seek papers that matter: that speak to pressing questions of our time, prompt serious thought and perhaps relevant action, and appeal to scholars and social actors in important and provocative ways.
| Rina Agarwala | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Joel Andreas | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Vilna Bashi | Northwestern University, USA |
| Fred Block | University of California, Davis, USA |
| John R. Bowman | Queens College, USA |
| José Antonio Cheibub | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Nitsan Chorev | Brown University |
| Archon Fung | Harvard University, USA |
| Patrick Heller | Brown University, USA |
| Pauline Jones | University of Michigan, USA |
| Ira Katznelson | Columbia University, USA |
| Magali Sarfatti Larson | Temple University, USA |
| Margaret Levi | University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
| Andrew B. Liu | Villanova University, USA |
| Mieke Meurs | American University, USA |
| Will Milberg | New School for Social Research, USA |
| Kimberly J. Morgan | George Washington University, USA |
| Mary Nolan | New York University, USA |
| David Ost | Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA |
| David Plotke | New School for Social Research, USA |
| Gay Seidman | University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
Manuscript Submission
Contributions must be submitted electronically-only as Word or PDF files to http://pas-journal.org. Note, however, that for production purposed, final versions of accepted articles need to be in Word format. Please do not submit hard copies. Please include your name, address, phone, fax, email address, biographical sketch, and an abstract on the title page. Politics & Society will not consider manuscripts currently under review with any other journal or manuscripts that significantly overlap with another publication, forthcoming or otherwise. Notes must be double spaced and placed at the end of the text (not at the bottom of pages). Politics & Society follows Chicago endnote style (The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). Notes must be complete: References (NB all journal and book titles should appear in italics): journal articles must include volume and issue numbers, as well as month and year of publication; references to books must list the author, title, city and year of publication, and publisher; references to contributed books must list the contributor, title of the contributor's essay, and full book information, including editor(s). Manuscripts should not exceed 12,000 words, excluding notes, reference lists, and appendixes. All publication decisions are made by the editorial board as a whole at its quarterly meetings. There, one of four possible decisions is made: (1) acceptance; (2) conditional acceptance, pending revisions; (3) rejection and resubmission; or (4) rejection. In the case of a decision to accept pending revisions, the coordinating editor usually determines if the author's changes meet the board's requests. In the case of a decision to reject and resubmit, the article is treated as a new submission and is reread and rediscussed by the entire board. Contributors should receive a decision within five months of submission. Further questions should be sent to Paul Dudenhefer (paul@pas-journal.org).
Note on figures: Color figures and the like (if used) will appear in color only in the online version of the article, unless the author pays for color printing. If the author does not pay for color printing, then the author should either make all figures grayscale and revise the text discussion of the figures and their captions accordingly, or provide both color and grayscale figures and prepare two versions of the text discussion of the figures and captions, one for the grayscale versions and one for the color versions.
Sage Choice and Open Access
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in Sage Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let Sage know directly if you are choosing Sage Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit Sage Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at Sage, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit Sage Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.