Policy & Politics
Last updated ISSN 0305-5736
Policy & Politics is published by Policy Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Policy & Politics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Political Systems and Governance
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Key facts
| Publisher | Policy Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0305-5736, 1470-8442 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,838 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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