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Editorial: Future Challenges and Strategies for Politics

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DOI10.1111/j.1467-9256.2012.01426.x
Published date01 June 2012
Date01 June 2012
Subject MatterEditorial
Editorial: Future Challenges and Strategies for Politics

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Editorial: Future Challenges and
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This issue of Politics is the first edited by the new editorial team at Newcastle
University. The new editors are grateful for all the work done over the past six years
by the Glasgow editorial team of Jane Duckett, Paul Graham and Alasdair Young.
Under their leadership, Politics has consolidated its position as one of the Political
Studies Association’s flagship journals. They continued the journal’s tradition of
publishing concise, timely and state of the art articles that cover key developments
in political and international studies research. Moreover, with an eye to the future
standing of the journal, they successfully secured a listing for Politics on the
Thomson-Reuters ISI Journal Ranking Index.
Our first issue is a good opportunity to outline the ambitions we have for Politics
over the next six years. Overall, we aim to maintain the quality and diversity of
research articles established by the previous editorial team. We also intend to build
upon the journal’s current position in order to improve the impact of the articles we
publish. In so doing we are mindful of three key challenges for scholars at the
present time:
1. the emphasis on achieving both impactful and engaged research in high-quality
outlets;
2. the importance of learning and teaching as various stakeholders (from students
and parents to employers) investigate provision in this area in light of a particu-
lar conception of the linkage between higher education and employability;
3. the fundamental transformations in the production and distribution of user-
generated content being brought about by social media and Web 2.0.
Over the next six years we hope that Politics will be able to respond to these
challenges and, in doing so, provide a high-quality outlet for state-of-the-art
research.
Mission
The stated aim of Politics has been to...

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