First thoughts on taking over Politics
| Published date | 01 May 2019 |
| Date | 01 May 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263395719837557 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395719837557
Politics
2019, Vol. 39(2) 135 –136
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First thoughts on taking
over Politics
Nivi Manchanda, Javier Sajuria and James Strong
School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Editors-in-Chief, Politics
We are very pleased to present the first volume of Politics of our editorship. We hope you
enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
Kyle Grayson, Martin Coward, and their team did a fantastic job at getting the journal
to its present position. We have inherited an increasingly well-regarded, good quality,
accessible journal. Our intention is to consolidate their legacy and push the journal further
into being a recognised outlet for excellent scholarship.
Politics works well as a pluralist, generalist journal featuring work from across the
fields of politics and international studies. Given the breadth of our own research interests
– we do quantitative, qualitative, and critical work on topics as varied as social media
analytics, parliamentary procedure, and race theory – we feel strongly that this openness
should continue. If you are working on politics, there is a place for your work in Politics.
We want Politics to represent the global profession. That means we’re open to submis-
sions from every part of the world, discussing political issues, institutions, events, and
ideas wherever they arise. We are especially interested in receiving more submissions
from colleagues based beyond our traditional hinterlands of the United Kingdom, North
America, and Australia (though we still want authors from those places, too!) and from
historically marginalised or under-represented demographic groups, including women
and people of colour. Each submission needs to follow our author guidelines (uk.sagepub.
com/en-gb/eur/politics/journal202481#submission-guidelines). Every submission must
as a minimum be able to explain: the question it seeks to answer, the concepts underpin-
ning its approach, its original contribution, and its core argument. Make sure you show
how what you have done builds on existing research and adds something new. Look at
recent examples of articles published in Politics for ideas about how to do both. But if
your work meets those criteria, do send it to us – especially if you’re writing about some-
thing political or approaching a political question from a perspective not previously seen
in our journal.
Politics also works well as a shorter form journal, featuring articles of 4000–8000
words in length. We remain committed to publishing good quality material. But important
ideas and strong analyses often come in smaller packages, while the best writing com-
municates complex concepts while avoiding prolixity.
We want Politics to be also a place for junior colleagues to test out new ideas. We aim
to read all submissions within a week, and to desk reject submissions that are not yet ready
for peer review. We give written feedback on all desk rejected work, with a view to making
your submission better next time around, even if it isn’t quite right for us. While all journal
editors are aware that of the impossibility of guaranteeing short review times – reviewers
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