''Political Science Quarterly'' is an American

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covering government, politics, and policy, published since 1886 by the

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. 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

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s. 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

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, 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 Demetrios "Jim" Caraley (June 22, 1932 – December 14, 2020) was editor of Political Science Quarterly and President Emeritus of The Academy of Political Science. Before retiring in 2004, he was Janet Robb Professor of the Social Science at Barn ...

, political scientist at

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

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