''Political Science Quarterly'' is an American double blind

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covering government, politics, and policy, published since 1886 by the Academy of Political Science. Its

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is Robert Y. Shapiro (

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). Each issue consists of five or six articles as well as up to 40 book reviews. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.675, ranking it 60th out of 183 journals in the category "Political Science." According to the SCImago Journal Rank, the PSQ has a score of 1.025, ranking it 159 out of 1316 journals in the category "Sociology and Political Science."

History

''Political Science Quarterly'' was established in 1886 by John W. Burgess (

), the Academy's first president, with the active involvement of New York publisher George A. Plimpton. Demetrios James Caraley, political scientist at

, served as the editor of the journal for 43 years from 1973 to 2020.

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* Political science journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1886 English-language journals {{poli-journal-stub