ABOUT THE JOURNAL

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Aims and scope of journal

Committed to excellence in scholarship and accessibility in style, Contemporary Political Theory (CPT) is a significant and distinctive addition to the top rank of peer-reviewed journals in political philosophy and theory.

  • The central focus of CPT will be on publishing contributions to contemporary theory, though informed by historical experience with submissions on past thinkers and thought welcomed where they bear upon current philosophical and political concerns
  • CPT will reflect the diversity of the subject by encompassing a very wide range of approaches including analytical political philosophy, radical and post-structural political thought, feminist theory, international relations theory and philosophy of social science.
  • CPT will be international in scope combining and bringing together both anglophone and continental European theory.
  • CPT will provide a forum for contributions that make connections across theoretical approaches, that cross-disciplinary boundaries and that apply theory to practice.
  • A rigorous process of refereeing will ensure the quality of articles.

The journal will regularly publish the following features:

  • Political theory revisited: a re-examination of classic contributions to the subject.
  • Theory and practice: dedicated to bringing a theoretical perspective to bear on practical issues
  • Reviews section: featuring an in-depth review of a number of related books
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Abstracted/indexed in

Contemporary Political Theory is abstracted and/or indexed in:

  • ABI/INFORM from ProQuest
  • International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR)
  • International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ)
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  • International Political Science Abstracts
  • The Philosopher's Index
  • Sociological Abstracts
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Contemporary Political Theory is 1470-8914 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1476-9336.

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Editors

General Editor

Gary Browning, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Editors

Raia Prokhovnik, The Open University, UK

Simon Tormey, University of Nottingham, UK

Associate Editors

Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria, Canada

John Maynor, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Geoffrey Stokes, Deakin University, Australia

Editorial Board

David Archard, University of Lancaster, UK
Benjamin Barber, University of Maryland, USA
Mark Bevir, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
David Boucher, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Bhupinder Brar, Punjab University, India
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK
Molly Cochran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Conal Condren, The University of New South Wales, Australia
William Connolly, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Diana Coole, Birkbeck College, UK
Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
Michael Freeden, University of Oxford, UK
Tim Hayward, The University of Edinburgh, UK
David Held, London School of Economics, UK
Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics, UK
Yoshiichi Kanaya, Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan
Russell Keat, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Kenny, University of Sheffield, UK
Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Canada
Moya Lloyd, Loughborough University, UK
Margaret Moore, Queen's University, Canada
Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster, UK
Bhikhu Parekh, The University of Hull, UK
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves, Yale University, USA
Alan Patten, Princeton University, USA
Raymond Plant, King's College, London, UK
Pierre Rosanvallon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France
Michael Saward, The Open University, UK
Hideaki Shinoda, Hiroshima University, Japan
Quentin Skinner, Christ's College, Cambridge, UK
Simon Tormey, The University of Nottingham, UK
Joan Tronto, Hunter College, New York, USA
James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada
Bert van den Brink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Rob Walker, Keele University, UK
Howard Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Wei Xiaoping, Philosophy Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China