Aims and scope
The Australian Journal of Political Science is the official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association. The editorial team of the Journal includes a range of Australian and overseas specialists covering the major subdisciplines of political studies. We publish quality research across a diverse range of subfields in political science including international relations, public policy, political communications, political sociology and political theory.

International in its outlook, readership and content, we publish articles at the cutting edge of the discipline, characterised by conceptual clarity, methodological rigour, substantive interest, theoretical coherence, broad appeal, originality and insight.

Though primarily oriented to Australian content and scholars, we will consider international content of a high quality, relevant to the Journal’s audience. We welcome publications across a diverse range of methodological approaches. We are committed to improving the number of submissions and published articles by authors from underrepresented groups and Early Career Researchers and to improving gender parity within the discipline.

We also publish research notes on a wide range of problem-driven scholarship. Research notes should be shorter and more focused than article manuscripts, demonstrate a novel perspective on existing research and encourage scholarly debate.

We do not publish book reviews or commentaries.

Peer Review: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by two anonymous referees.