''Perspectives on Politics'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal covering
political science. It was established in 2003 and is published by
Cambridge University Press on behalf of the
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ...
. The
editor-in-chief is Michael Bernhard (
University of Florida) and the associate/book review editor is Daniel I. O'Neill (
University of Florida); the founding editor was
Jennifer Hochschild
Jennifer Lucy Hochschild (born September 17, 1950) is a political scientist. She serves as the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. Sh ...
.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Social Sciences Citation Index
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and
Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016
impact factor of 3.234, ranking it 8th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science".
See also
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List of political science journals
This is a list of political science journals presenting representative academic journals in the field of political science.
A
*''Acta Politica''
*''African Affairs''
*''American Journal of Political Science''
*''American Political Science Revi ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.apsanet.org/content_3246.cfm
Political science journals
Academic journals established in 2003
Cambridge University Press academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies