Journal Description

The Best in Critical Social Inquiry

In today's rapidly changing political and social climate, it's more important than ever for political and social scientists to keep on the cutting edge of critical and analytical thinking on issues vital to society. Politics & Society, a distinguished and respected peer-reviewed quarterly publication, is your best source for such perspectives.

Politics & Society was established in the late 1960s as an alternative, critical voice of the social sciences. The journal's editorial mission is to encourage a tradition of critical analysis through the development of Marxist, post-Marxist and other radical perspectives. It presents rational and engaged discourse, and reconstructs social inquiry though scholarship that addresses fundamental questions of politics, theory and policy.

Today, the journal remains committed to its founding purposes and continues to publish well-researched articles that raise questions about the way the world is organized politically, economically, and socially. Politics & Society regularly debates such topics as the theory of the state, class analysis, politics of gender, methodological individualism and rational choice, and the future of capitalism and socialism.

Multidisciplinary Perspective
In the pages of Politics & Society, you will find theoretical articles, philosophical reflections, and empirical research reflecting a wide range of disciplines including: political science • sociology • economics • history • anthropology • philosophy • law • geography • public policy

In-Depth Coverage
Politics & Society occasionally supplements its broad coverage with comprehensive, single-theme Special Issues dedicated to select areas of interest. Previous Special Issues have included:

• The New Politics of Inequality in Europe (September 2016)
• Social Protection in the Developing World: Challenges, Continuity, and Change (December 2015)
• The Rights of Noncitizens (September 2014)
• Rewarding Regulation in Latin America (December 2013)