ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Top of pageAims and scope of journal
Political Science with an Edge
Acta Politica is one of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline. In the past we have published theoretical and empirical articles, comparative and single-country studies and even some methodological notes. In times of an ever-increasing specialisation in political science, we however strongly believe a broad-ranging political science journal is as important as ever for the international scientific community. As Editors, we have a strong preference for articles that will attract a wide audience within the broader field of political science, no matter what the precise topic of the article might be.
Despite this broad scope Acta Politica is very selective about the quality of the articles that it publishes. Acta Politica has always been committed to publishing articles with an 'edge'; providing new insights or new approaches in political science. At the end of the review process, we always ask the question: "What did we learn from this article?"
Our aim is to provide an exciting read, whether you are interested in political theory or quantitative research methods. Our goal is to select those articles that bring with them a substantive theoretical background, while demonstrating how these ideas can be used in empirical research. On the other hand, we welcome empirical articles introducing new ways to incorporate or to test theoretical discussions which are highly interesting to our readers.
Acta Politica follows a double blind review policy, and our acceptance rate stands at about 35 per cent, ensuring that all the articles we publish meet high academic standards. These standards are, and will remain, our ultimate criteria of judgment for inclusion in the journal. We welcome articles on a broad range of topics, and using a wide array of methods. While in the past most authors publishing in Acta Politica tended to come from Europe, we now also attract more articles from the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. Our aim is to provide authors with substantive feedback within three months of receiving of a manuscript.
Acta Politica is committed to publishing relevant political science research, and we invite you to share that commitment, either by subscribing to the journal or recommending it to your library, or by considering Acta Politica when choosing a journal to publish your own research. Potential authors are invited to contact the Editors at acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl with informal enquiries regarding suitability of their manuscript.
Top of pageAbstracted/indexed in
ABI/INFORM
IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
IBR – International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
SCOPUS
Social Science Citation Index
Social Scisearch
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
ISSN and eISSN
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Acta Politica is 0001-6810 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1741-1416.
Top of pageEditors
Editor
Marc Hooghe, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Kees van Kersbergen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Book Reviews Editor
Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editors' Secretary
Margriet Lambert, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Advisory Board
Rudy B. Andeweg, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Stefano Bartolini, European University Institute, Florence and University of Siena, Italy
Tanja Börzel, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Kees Brants, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dietmar Braun, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Hans Daalder, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jan van Deth, University of Mannheim, Germany
Kris Deschouwer, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Cees van der Eijk, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Markus Haverland, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Otto Holman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joop van Holsteyn, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Liesbet Hooghe, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of North Carolina, USA
M. Kent Jennings, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Erik Jones, The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy
Gerd Junne, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Max Kaase, International University, Bremen, Germany
Hans Keman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bart Kerremans, University of Leuven, Belgium
Henk van der Kolk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Hanspeter Kriesi, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Percy B. Lehning, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego, USA
Grahame Lock, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Oxford University, UK
Peter Mair, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Gary Marks, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of North Carolina, USA
Helmut Norpoth, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Diane Sainsbury, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, USA
Jürg Steiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and University of Bern, Switzerland
Jacques Thomassen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Joan Tronto, City University of New York, USA
Bertjan Verbeek, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Michiel de Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jan Zielonka, Oxford University, United Kingdom
