''Perspectives on Politics'' is a quarterly

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covering

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

. It was established in 2003 and is published by

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on behalf of the

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. The

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is Michael Bernhard (

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) and the associate/book review editor is Daniel I. O'Neill (

); 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 ...

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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and

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 3.234, ranking it 8th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science".

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