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A Message from the New Editorial Team

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Published date01 March 2012
Date01 March 2012
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00949.x
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A Message from the New Editorial Team
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doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00949.x
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Volume 60 of Political Studies launches with a new look and a new editorial team. After six
very successful years in which the journal was run by a team based at the University of
Sheffield, editorial responsibility transferred to a new team in the School of Politics and
International Relations at the University of Nottingham in July 2011. Under the editorship
of Martin Smith and Matthew Festenstein, the journal significantly enhanced its interna-
tional profile and it is now listed at 34th (out of 139) journals on Thomson’s ISI Citations
Index. It is now one of the world’s leading generalist journals. We are currently receiving
more than three hundred new submissions every year and these come from political
scientists working around the globe (with more than half of these submissions coming from
outside the UK). Our ambition as editors is to publish the very best and most innovative
work in political science, to strengthen further the profile and impact of Political Studies
internationally, and to continue to provide an excellent and timely service to our authors.
We shall continue to work very hard with our excellent colleagues at Wiley-Blackwell to
ensure that all aspects of the journal’s production meet the highest professional standards.
Alongside our sister journal Political Studies Review (which is now also ISI-ranked), we aim
to represent all that is best in an outward-facing political science community in the UK.
As well as a new editorial team, we have a substantially reinvigorated International
Advisory Board with a more pro-active remit and international commissioning editors in
the US (Professor Peter Hall) and Europe (Professor Stephan Leibfried).We shall continue
to be represented at the discipline’s major international conferences and will be seeking out
the very best new work from both upcoming...

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