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European Political Science (EPS)
Published in association with Palgrave Macmillan
Published four times a year (3 standard issues and EPS Reviews)
ISSN: 1680-4333

European Political Science (EPS) Cover EPS edited by:
Martin Bull (m.j.bull@salford.ac.uk)
Luis de Sousa (luis.sousa@ics.ul.pt)
Jonathon Moses (jonathon.moses@svt.ntnu.no)
Jacqueline Briggs (jbriggs@lincoln.ac.uk) - Associate Editor

EPS Reviews edited by:
Peter Kennealy (Peter.Kennealy@IUE.it)

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EPS is the professional journal of the ECPR devoted to publishing contributions by and for the political science community. Its interpretation of 'political science' is wide and encompasses comparative politics, political economy, international relations, public administration, political theory, European studies and related disciplines. It publishes pieces on how the discipline is, can be and ought to be.

Articles address research matters (including debates in the discipline, research projects, political science information sources, funding opportunities); professional matters (such as career structures and prospects, external evaluation, higher education reforms, accreditation issues); doctoral training provision and teaching matters; and relations between academia and politicians, policy makers, journalists and ordinary citizens. EPS also includes more substantive pieces that provide a political science perspective on important current events. In addition to original articles, the journal carries shorter notes, review articles and symposia, progress reports on lively areas of research and profiles of people in the profession.

The December, Reviews, issue is devoted to reviews and review articles and is supported by the European University Institute (EUI).

Each issue of EPS also includes a section of 'ECPR News', containing a round-up of all news and information from the consortium. This section of EPS is available online free of charge (without an institutional or member subscription) and can be viewed here.

A benefit of membership
As a publication that aims to address the professional needs and aspirations of all political scientists, each ECPR member institution receives a subscription to EPS as part of its membership.

This includes:
Online access to the Journal (via your library)*
One copy sent to the Official Representative for circulation throughout the department In addition, a PDF of each issue is available in the members' only section of the ECPR web site.

* The contact details for the person responsible for periodicals should be sent to Rebecca Gethen at the Central Services: rknapp@essex.ac.uk

Subscriptions Non- ECPR members can also take out a subscription to EPS through Palgrave Macmillan, a summary of the subscription rates is below; please see the Palgrave web site for more information.

Institutional print subscription price £273
Online only / site license
Please see http://www.nature.com/libraries/site_licenses/index.html for more details.
Personal subscription price £58

Submissions
Articles may be short (approximately 1,500-2,000 words), long (approximately 2,000-5,000 words) or even longer (up to 7,000 words), and will often fall into one of four broad categories:

  • research, including sketches of major current research projects, features on research funding and so forth
  • the profession, accreditation and regulation issues etc
  • the doctoral student/candidate, including training matters, summer schools, research opportunities
  • the teacher, including short articles based on seminar/lecture room experience, methodology, reviews of textbooks and so on

To contribute or to make a query, please contact EPS. Informal enquiries can be directed to the editors Martin Bull (University of Salford, U.K.)

For more information about how to subscribe to the journal, or submit an article please see the EPS pages on the Palgrave Macmillan web site: Link to the EPS pages