Manuscript Submission

Contributions must be submitted electronically-only as Word or PDF files to http://pas-journal.org. Note, however, that for production purposed, final versions of accepted articles need to be in Word format. Please do not submit hard copies. Please include your name, address, phone, fax, email address, biographical sketch, and an abstract on the title page. Politics & Society will not consider manuscripts currently under review with any other journal or manuscripts that significantly overlap with another publication, forthcoming or otherwise. Notes must be double spaced and placed at the end of the text (not at the bottom of pages). Politics & Society follows Chicago endnote style (The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). Notes must be complete: References (NB all journal and book titles should appear in italics): journal articles must include volume and issue numbers, as well as month and year of publication; references to books must list the author, title, city and year of publication, and publisher; references to contributed books must list the contributor, title of the contributor's essay, and full book information, including editor(s). Manuscripts should not exceed 12,000 words, excluding notes, reference lists, and appendixes. All publication decisions are made by the editorial board as a whole at its quarterly meetings. There, one of four possible decisions is made: (1) acceptance; (2) conditional acceptance, pending revisions; (3) rejection and resubmission; or (4) rejection. In the case of a decision to accept pending revisions, the coordinating editor usually determines if the author's changes meet the board's requests. In the case of a decision to reject and resubmit, the article is treated as a new submission and is reread and rediscussed by the entire board. Contributors should receive a decision within five months of submission. Further questions should be sent to Paul Dudenhefer (paul@pas-journal.org).

Note on figures: Color figures and the like (if used) will appear in color only in the online version of the article, unless the author pays for color printing. If the author does not pay for color printing, then the author should either make all figures grayscale and revise the text discussion of the figures and their captions accordingly, or provide both color and grayscale figures and prepare two versions of the text discussion of the figures and captions, one for the grayscale versions and one for the color versions.

Sage Choice and Open Access

If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in Sage Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let Sage know directly if you are choosing Sage Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit Sage Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at Sage, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit Sage Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.