期刊名称：POLITY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Since its inception in 1968, Polity has been committed to the publication of scholarship reflecting the full variety of approaches to the study of politics. As journals have become more specialized and less accessible to many within the discipline of political science, Polity has remained ecumenical. The editor and editorial board welcome articles intended to be of interest to an entire field (e.g., political theory or international politics) within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Scholarship of this type promises to be highly "productive" - that is, to stimulate other scholars to ask fresh questions and reconsider conventional assumptions. Polity is devoted to the premise that political knowledge advances through scholarly communication across subdiscipline boundaries. This commitment has helped make Polity one of the most widely-known journals in political science.
The Polity review process is designed to identify high-quality research or important syntheses that should be made available to a broad scholarly audience. When a manuscript is submitted, the editorial staff makes a preliminary assessment of its quality and suitability. For manuscripts selected for full review, the journal seeks two types of evaluation. Each manuscript is read carefully by specialists in the subject matter who are in a position to assess its intellectual rigor and originality. In addition, the editor and/or a member of the editorial board consider whether the manuscript offers something significant to non-specialist readers. All reviews are anonymous.
Most Polity articles originate as unsolicited manuscripts, but the journal also publishes other forms of scholarship. Review essays appear on a regular basis. In addition, Polity offers occasional forums organized by the editor or a member of the editorial board on salient political issues, new directions in scholarship, or important questions that are provoking considerable discussion within the discipline.
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Abstracted/indexed in
America: History and Life
Historical Abstracts
International Political Science Abstracts
Sage Human Resources Abstracts
Sage Public Administration Abstracts
Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
SCOPUS
Social Sciences Index
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Instructions to Authors
Polity welcomes submissions in all fields of political science on the understanding that the material is original and has not been published or submitted for review elsewhere. All material, including footnotes, titles, tables, and quotations, must be double-spaced and conform to these guidelines. Submissions are sent to a member of the editorial board and at least one scholar in the relevant subfield for blind review. Since manuscripts are sent anonymously to reviewers, the author's name and affiliation, as well as footnotes identifying the author, should appear only on a separate page. An abstract of approximately 150 words should also be on a separate page. Authors should supply up to 6 keywords for indexing and abstracting services. Manuscripts of articles should not exceed 35 pages, including notes, tables, and other material; manuscripts of review essays should not exceed 18 pages. For co-authored articles, one author should be designated as the corresponding author, to be responsible for communicating with editors and the publisher and for relaying information to and from the other authors.
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Submission of articles
Electronic submissions are preferred. Articles should be in Word format or Word Perfect and sent to polity@uconn.edu. The subject of the e-mail should be "new submission".
The editorial staff shall complete the review process and reach a decision within three months of submission acknowledgment. If the author does not receive a decision within three months, s/he may choose to withdraw the manuscript by notifying the editor.
If the author does not have e-mail access, 5 copies of all materials should be sent to:
Dr. Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Editor, Polity, MA/Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, U-1024
Storrs, CT
06269-1024
USA
Authors sending paper materials should note that this submission process may delay a decision about the manuscript.
Polity publishes book review essays, not individual book reviews. Individuals interested in writing review essays should send inquiries or full proposals (including bibliographic information on the works to be reviewed, a short abstract describing the theme of the essay, and the author's current c.v.) to the Editor, as above.
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Presentation of articles
All articles should be in English. Materials should be double-spaced and presented in the following order, each starting on a separate page: title page (including author's postal and e-mail address and telephone number), abstract, body of text, notes following the body of the text in sequential order, tables, figures, graphs, and maps (all numbered and titled). Placement of tables, graphs, figures and maps within the text should be noted on a separate line. Text headings should appear on separate lines. Primary headings should be left justified, with initial capitalization, and should be bold face. Secondary headings should also be left justified, with initial capitalization, but should be in italics.
Spelling should conform to Webster's New International Dictionary or Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Initial submissions may include rough work for tables, figures, graphs, and maps, but authors whose submissions are accepted will be required to provide publishable computer files of this material. They should be provided on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in separate files to the main body of text and figures should be saved in either Tiff or Jpeg format.
Notes (with no bibliography) should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes (not in-text parenthetical notations). Use short form for all subsequent references; avoid op cit., loc. cit., and ibid. Parenthetical references in the text are permitted only in manuscripts undertaking extended textual analysis of one or a few works, and then only for those specific works. A separate, unnumbered acknowledgement of collegial and financial support should precede the numbered notes. It will be referenced with an asterisk at the end of the title of the article. Examples of notes follow.
Journal article:
Gary Miller and Norman Schofield, "Activists and Partisan Realignment in the United States," American Political Science Review 97 (May 2003): 245-60. [note that volume number follows journal title without punctuation; no issue number is used; colon precedes page numbers]
Subsequent reference: Miller and Schofield, "Activists and Partisan Realignment," [or even "Activists"; use shortest possible version] 256. [here a comma is used before page number]
Book:
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 38-51. [note comma before page number]
Subsequent reference: Rawls, Theory of Justice, 104-23.
Edited book:
Howard Gillman and Cornell Clayton, eds., The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). [no state needed before colon if name is in press]
Subsequent reference: Gillman and Clayton, Supreme Court in American Politics [this could be shortened further to Supreme Court if more is not necessary to differentiate it from another book or article used]
Chapter in edited book:
L. Sandy Maisel, Walter J. Stone, and Cherie Maestas, "Quality Challengers to Congressional Incumbents: Can Better Candidates Be Found?" in Playing Hardball: Campaigning for the U.S. Congress, ed. Paul S. Hernnson (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001), 298-408. [note that the editor follows book title; ed. = "edited by" and thus is the same for multiple editors]
Subsequent reference: Maisel et al., "Quality Challengers," 305.
Newspaper article:
Bill Schiller, "Macedonia: What's in a Name?" The Toronto Star, 15 November 1992 [or: November 15, 1992 - just be consistent]
Subsequent reference: Schiller, "Macedonia."
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Proofs
The corresponding author will be sent an email containing a link to an online PDF proof of the article. Please print a copy of the PDF proof, correct it within the time period indicated and return as directed. Please make no revisions to the final, edited text, except where the copy-editor has requested clarification. The Editor retains the right to make minor stylistic changes to the final proof of the manuscript.
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PDF
Corresponding authors will receive a copy of the journal and a PDF of their article. This PDF offprint is provided for personal use. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to pass the PDF offprint onto co-authors (if relevant) and ensure that they are aware of the conditions pertaining to its use.
The PDF must not be placed on a publicly-available website for general viewing, or otherwise distributed without seeking our permission, as this would contravene our copyright policy and potentially damage the journal’s circulation. Please visit http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/authors/rights_and_permissions.html to see our latest copyright policy.
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Copyright and clearing permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add these permissions to the acknowledgement footnote that precedes all other notes. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.
The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication, authors assign copyright to the Northeastern Political Science Association, but retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by themselves subject to full acknowledgment of the original source of publication.
The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralized licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.
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Publication ethics
We take an active interest in issues and developments relating to publication ethics, such as plagiarism, falsification of data, fabrication of results and other areas of ethical misconduct. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Please note that submitted manuscripts may be subject to checks using the iThenticate service, in conjunction with CrossCheck, in order to detect instances of overlapping and similar text.
Editorial Board
Editor
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut
Editor
Jeffrey Ladewig, University of Conecticut
Evelyn Simien, University of Connecticut
Editorial Board
Lee Ann Banaszak, Penn State University
Cristina Beltran, Haverford College
John Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
F.Gregory Gause III, University of Vermont
Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
Mark Graber, University of Maryland
Andrew D. Grossman, Albion College
Jane Junn, Rutgers University
Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego
Sharon Krause, Brown University
Richard Ned Lebow,Dartmouth College
Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University
Robert Lieberman, Columbia University
Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
Nicole Mellow, Williams College
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
Bruce Miroff, University at Albany, SUNY
Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College
Patrick Neal, University of Vermont
Melissa Nobles, MIT
Diane S. Rubenstein, Cornell University
Nancy L. Schwartz, Wesleyan University
Beth Simmons, Harvard University
Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Vickie Sullivan, Tufts University
Bob Pepperman Taylor, University of Vermont
Denise Schaeffer, College of the Holy Cross
Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon
John R. Wallach, Hunter College, CUNY
Keith Whittington, Princeton University
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