Polity
Last updated ISSN 0032-3497
Polity is published by University of Chicago 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 Polity concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Political Theory and Influence
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Political Science Research and Education
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0032-3497, 1744-1684 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,557 |
| Publishing since | 1968 |
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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