''Policy Sciences'' is a quarterly

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covering issues and practices in the

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. It was established in 1970 and is published by

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on behalf of the Society of Policy Scientists. The

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is Michael P. Howlett (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 3.023, ranking it ninth out of 57 journals in the category "Planning and Development", seventh out of 47 journals in the category "Public Administration", and fifth out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Harold Lasswell Prize

Since 1984, the association has awarded the

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Memorial Prize for the best article published in the current volume of the journal. The prize selection committee usually is drawn from the

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and Springer Science+Business Media underwrites all expenses related to the prize.

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Abstracting and indexing

Editors-in-chief

Harold Lasswell Prize

See also

References

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