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About the The British Journal of Politics and International Relations format

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Political and Economic history of UK and US, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inPolitical and Economic history of UK and US Social Policy and Reform Studies Electoral Systems and Political Participation European Union Policy and Governance International Relations and Foreign Policy
ISSN1369-1481
Citation impact (2-yr)3.49
h-index87
i10-index722
Total citations36,106
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Sheffield
Journal websitejournals.sagepub.com
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Papers published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations per year

33
2014
20
2015
51
2016
50
2017
60
2018
50
2019
74
2020
52
2021
37
2022
49
2023
77
2024
62
2025

Citation impact of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations by publication year

1.1K
2014
569
2015
1.9K
2016
2.8K
2017
1.7K
2018
832
2019
2K
2020
775
2021
785
2022
422
2023
487
2024
89
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Privatised Keynesianism: An Unacknowledged Policy Regime

Colin Crouch · 6 Jul 2009

There have now been two successive policy regimes since the Second World War that have temporarily succeeded in reconciling the uncertainties and instabilities of a capitalist economy with democracy's need for stability for people's lives and capitalism's own need for confident mass consumers. The first of these was the system of public demand management generally…

Celebrity Politicians: Popular Culture and Political Representation

John Street · 22 Oct 2004

Considerable political and media attention has focused on the phenomenon of the ‘celebrity politician’. As this article illustrates, there are two main variants of the phenomenon. The first is the elected politician or candidate who uses elements of ‘celebrityhood’ to establish their claim to represent a group or cause. The second is the celebrity—the star…

New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation

Peter Burnham · 1 Jun 2001

A number of commentators in the 1980s sought to explain the character of the Thatcher administration. By contrast, relatively little work has been produced that seeks to analyse the principles and governing strategies of the Blair government. Focusing primarily on economic management, this article offers a characterisation of statecraft under Blair in terms of the…

Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit

Matthew Goodwin, Caitlin Milazzo · 8 Jun 2017

The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the European Union (EU)—for a ‘Brexit’—brought an end to the country’s membership of the EU and set it on a fundamentally different course. Recent academic research on the vote for Brexit points to the importance of…

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does The British Journal of Politics and International Relations use?
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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