The ''International Political Science Review/Revue Internationale de Science Politique'' is a

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covering the field of

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. The

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are

Marian Sawer Philippa Marian Sawer (born 20 August 1946) is an Australian political scientist. She is a professor emeritus at the Australian National University (ANU). Early life Sawer was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the daughter of Ralph and Marjorie Go ...

(

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) and Theresa Reidy (

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). It was established in 1980 and is published by

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on behalf of the

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Editors' choice and thematic special issues

Editors' choice collections of articles on a particular theme, selected from past issues, were initiated in 2011. So far there have been collections on ideology, regimes and regime change
political parties and party systemsgender and political behaviourgender and political institutionsreligion and politicsthe politics of inequality
an
borders and margins
Access to the articles in these collections is free. The journal also regularly publishes thematic special issues. Recent examples include special issues o
electoral quotasEuroscepticismPopulism in World Politics
an
Diasporas and Sending States in World Politics

Meisel-Laponce Award

The journal has a cash prize of $1000 for the best article published in the previous four years. The prize was first awarded in 2012 and went to Jorgen Moller and Svend-Erik Skaaning, for ''Beyond the radial delusion: Conceptualising and measuring democracy and non-democracy''. There is free access to the winning and short-listed articles. In 2016 the prize was awarded to Lingling Qi and Doh Chull Shin for
How mass political attitudes affect democratization: Exploring the facilitating role critical democrats play in the process'.
span id="Meisel-Laponce_Award"> The next award will be made at the International Political Science Association's World Congress in Lisbon in 2020.

Most cited article

The most cited paper published in the journal since the beginning of 2002, cited over 900 times according to

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Abstracting and indexing

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 1.321, ranking it 75th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science".

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