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Political Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Political Philosophy and Ethics, Social Policy and Reform Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 3,999 papers, which have received 137,151 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
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| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Political Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Philosophy and Ethics Social Policy and Reform Studies Political and Economic history of UK and US Populism, Right-Wing Movements |
| ISSN | 0032-3217 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.35 |
| h-index | 157 |
| i10-index | 1,773 |
| Top institutions publishing here | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Journal website | www.politicalstudies.org |
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The ‘new institutionalism’ is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political science. However, there is considerable confusion about just what the ‘new institutionalism’ is, how it differs from other approaches, and what sort of promise or problems it displays. The object of this essay is to provide some preliminary answers to these…
The term ‘governance’ is popular but imprecise. It has at least six uses, referring to: the minimal state; corporate governance: the new public management; ‘good governance’; socio-cybernetic systems: and self-organizing networks. I stipulate that governance refers to ‘self-organizing, interorganizational networks' and argue these networks complement markets and hierarchies as governing structures for authoritatively allocating resources…
Populism, understood as an appeal to ‘the people’ against both the established structure of power and the dominant ideas and values, should not be dismissed as a pathological form of politics of no interest to the political theorist, for its democratic pretensions raise important issues. Adapting Michael Oakeshott's distinction between ‘the politics of faith’ and…
A growing chorus of scholars laments the apparent decline of political participation in America, and the negative implications of this trend for American democracy. This article questions this position – arguing that previous studies misdiagnosed the sources of political change and the consequences of changing norms of citizenship for Americans' political engagement. Citizenship norms are…
