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Advance Online Publication (AOP)

Polity is now utilising our industry leading Advance Online Publication (AOP) service. This service enables us to publish online the final version of a paper, fully citeable and exactly as it will be published in the printed edition. In some instances papers are published AOP a significant number of months before appearing in print.
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We are pleased to announce that the winners of the very first Polity Prize for the best article published in volume 38 are Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson for their paper "The Republic of the Moderns: Paine's and Madison's Novel Liberalism." The award will be presented formally at the Northeastern Political Science Association meeting in November. Click here to download a free copy of the winning paper.

Polity's time from submission to first decision is now just 2 months.

Polity was ranked 23rd with an impact rating of 8.756 in the survey of selected journals published in the April 2003 issue of PS: Political Science & Politics.

Andrew Polsky, the editor of Polity, has written a short article on the review process at scholarly journals with suggestions for prospective authors that may help them identify flaws in manuscripts before submission. First-time authors in particular may find this useful. To read the article, follow this link.