ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Top of pageAims and scope of journal
British Politics offers the only forum explicitly designed to promote research in British political studies, and seeks to provide a counterweight to the growing fragmentation of this field during recent years. To this end, the journal aims to promote a more holistic understanding of British politics by encouraging a closer integration between theoretical and empirical research, between historical and contemporary analyses, and by fostering a conception of British politics as a broad and multi-disciplinary field of study. This incorporates a range of sub-fields, including psephology, policy analysis, regional studies, comparative politics, institutional analysis, political theory, political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and social policy.
While recognising the validity and the importance of research into specific aspects of British politics, the journal takes it to be a guiding principle that such research is more useful, and indeed meaningful, if it is related to the field of British politics in a broader and fuller sense.
The scope of the journal will therefore be broad, incorporating a range of research papers and review articles from all theoretical perspectives, and on all aspects of British politics, including policy developments, institutional change and political behaviour. Priority will, however, be given to contributions which link contemporary developments in British politics to theoretical and/or historical analyses. The aim is as much to encourage the development of empirical research that is theoretically rigorous and informed, as it is to encourage the empirical application of theoretical work (or at least to encourage theorists to explicitly signify how their work could be applied in an empirical manner).
Top of pageAbstracted/indexed in
International Political Science Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
ISSN and eISSN
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for British Politics is 1746-918X and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1746-9198.
Top of pageEditors
Editors
Colin Hay, University of Sheffield, UK
Peter Kerr (Executive Editor), University of Birmingham, UK
Steven Kettell (Executive Editor), University of Warwick, UK
David Marsh, Australian National University, Australia
Book Reviews Editor
Heather Savigny, University of East Anglia, UK
Editorial Associates
Steven Buckler, University of Birmingham, UK
Stuart McAnulla, University of Leeds, UK
Heather Savigny, University of East Anglia, UK
David Seawright, University of Leeds, UK
Nicola Smith, University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Advisory Board
Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK
Jim Buller, University of York, UK
Peter Burnham, University of Warwick, UK
David Coates, Wake Forest University, USA
James Cronin, Boston College, USA
Keith Dowding, Australian National University, Australia
Michael Freeden, University of Oxford, UK
Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge, UK
Wyn Grant, University of Warwick, UK
Peter Hall, Harvard University, USA
Dennis Kavanagh, University of Liverpool, UK
Michael Keating, European University Institute, Italy
Patrick Le Galès, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France
Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
David Marquand, University of Oxford, UK
Elizabeth McLeay, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Elizabeth Meehan, Queens University, Belfast, UK
Roger Middleton, University of Bristol, UK
Michael Moran, University of Manchester, UK
Pippa Norris, Harvard University, USA
Henk Overbeek, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gillian Peele, University of Oxford, UK
Rod Rhodes, Australian National University, Australia
David Sanders, University of Essex, UK
Anthony Seldon, Brighton College, UK
David Soskice, Duke University, USA
Jim Tomlinson, University of Dundee, UK
