Overview
Aims and Scope
The Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR) is a generalist political science journal whose aim is to advance academic knowledge and debate in political research. The SPSR is published on behalf of the Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA). Because of its origins, the journal is particularly interested in issues such as federalism and decentralisation, direct democracy, or consociational politics, but it publishes research from any major area and subfield of political science. The SPSR encourages contributions from different theoretical and methodological approaches and especially welcomes intellectual exchange across traditional boundaries between political science subfields and with its neighbouring disciplines (sociology, social psychology, law, anthropology, economics, and philosophy). It publishes original and innovative work that makes a theoretical, methodological and/or empirical contribution to the study of political phenomena.
A fully refereed journal, the SPSR publishes research articles, book reviews, as well as special issues on selected topics. It collaborates with the Swiss Blog DeFacto; authors can post the main findings of their SPSR articles in German, French, or Italian.
SPSR has been published since 1995, replacing the Annuaire suisse de science politique/Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Politische Wissenschaft. Full text of the annuals is available via the following link: http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=svp-001
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