Public Affairs Quarterly
Last updated ISSN 0887-0373
Public Affairs Quarterly is published by University of Illinois 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 Public Affairs Quarterly concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Free Will and Agency
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- International Law and Human Rights
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0887-0373, 2152-0542 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 275 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/paq.html |
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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