Aims and scope

Studia Polityczne is a leading political science journal in Central and Eastern Europe, whose aim is to publish high-quality research in all areas of political science, including public policy, public administration, comparative politics, political sociology and international relations.

The journal publishes methodologically rigorous and original works of significance to the broadly understood discipline. The journal's editors welcome papers in Polish and in English, that are embedded in theories and methodologies used in social sciences. Texts that adopt innovative research approaches and transcend the traditional framework of subdisciplines are particularly welcome. Empirically, the editors particularly encourage the submission of research results regarding the Central and Eastern European region, including Poland, or taking into account the region from a comparative perspective.

Studia Polityczne is a quarterly journal and has been published by the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1992. All texts are published free of charge in open access. The editors promote the highest international standards in peer review.

Studia Polityczne is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. All articles in the journal are published in the open access formula, on the licence Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The journal does not charge submission or publication fees for the manuscripts.

The Author grants the ISP PAN the non-exclusive proprietary copyrights license for the work in all fields of exploitation listed in Art. 50 of the Act of February 4, 1994 about copyright and related rights. The license also includes the right for further sublicensing in the aforementioned fields of exploitation, © authors.

Sending an article for publication is tantamount to a statement that it was not published or submitted for publication in another journal and that it does not infringe on the copyrights of other persons and entities.

All the submitted manuscripts are verified in the Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to prevent the plagiarism and duplicate publications.

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