Aims & Scope
The World Political Science Review (WPSR) publishes translations of prize-winning articles nominated by prominent national political science associations and journals around the world. Scholars in a field as international as political science need to know about important political research produced outside the English-speaking world. WPSR gathers together and translates an ever-increasing number of countries' best political science articles, bridging the language barriers that have made this cutting-edge research inaccessible up to now.
Articles in the World Political Science Review cover a wide range of subjects of interest to readers concerned with the systematic analysis of political issues facing national, sub-national and international governments and societies. Fields include Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Political Economy, and Public Administration and Policy. Anyone interested in the central issues of the day, whether they are students, policy makers, or other citizens, will benefit from greater familiarity with debates about the nature and solutions to social, economic and political problems carried on in non-English language forums.
The journal's 2006 editorial board consists of representatives from the participating national associations and journals. These currently include Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway, Lithuania, and Switzerland, and will extend in 2007 to Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, The United Arab Emirates, and several other Asian countries.
World Political Science Review was previously published under the title Encounters: Political Science in Translation, under the former ISSN 1715-0647.