Now Accepting Submissions: IPSA’s Governance Review Journal

Submissions are now open for IPSA’s new journal, Governance Review, to be published by Sage in January 2027. The journal’s website is accepting manuscript submissions, and we warmly invite political scientists to contribute their work. Detailed instructions are available on the website.

As a journal dedicated to exploring and refining the concept of governance from both theoretical and practical perspectives, the journal welcomes research articles, encourages special issues on relevant themes, and accepts short practice-based contributions called "Governance Briefs." In addition, the journal will periodically feature interviews with leading experts and practitioners on the vexing challenges of domestic and global governance.

We are pleased to announce that the journal’s inaugural edition will feature interviews with Professor James A. Robinson, co-author of "Why Nations Fail" and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize, as well as Professor Larry Diamond, a specialist in democracy and democratic consolidation. These interviews will address issues of governance and examine regional and continental variations as well as commonalities, while locating these perspectives within the broader crisis of governance that nations face today.

Previously published by the University of Ottawa and Érudit, Governance Review is a multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of governance. In keeping with its 21-year tradition, the journal aims to become a leading outlet for texts from across the epistemological and ontological spectrum, from the dual perspective of enriching positive and normative knowledge about governance and nurturing public debate on the challenges and issues related to its contemporary exercise.

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