European Political Science (EPS) is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 published by the European Consortium for Political Research

European Consortium for Political Research

The European Consortium for Political Research is an independent, scholarly association, which supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines...

 (ECPR), since 2005 in collaboration with Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company, headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom and with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Delhi, Johannesburg. It was created in 2000 when St...

. The journal covers comparative politics, political economy, international relations, public administration, political theory, European studies and related disciplines.

Three out of the four issues each year concern professional matters of interest to political scientists in Europe. These issues are edited by Martin Bull (Academic Director of the ECPR), Luis de Sousa

Luís de Sousa

Frei Luís de Sousa , Portuguese monk and prose-writer, was born at Santarém, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho.-Capture and release:...

, Jonathan Moses, and Jacqui Briggs. The fourth issue, known as EPS Reviews is devoted entirely to reviews of recent books, and is edited by Peter Kennealy of the European University Institute

European University Institute

The European University Institute ' in Florence is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences, in a European perspective...

, Florence (Italy). EPS Reviews began when EPS moved to Palgrave in 2005 and is co-sponsored by the European University Institute. Since then it has published reviews by leading European and international political scientists and theorists such as Jean Blondel

Jean Blondel

Jean Blondel is a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Siena....

, Rachel A Epstein, Michelle Everson, Michael Freeden, Michael Keating

Michael Keating (political scientist)

Michael Keating is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics, regional politics and devolution. He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen. Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and...

, Peter Lassman, Peter Mair

Peter Mair

Peter Mair was an Irish political scientist. He was professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence.-Career:...

, Glyn Morgan, Gianfranco Pasquino, and Philippe C. Schmitter. Other reviewers have included John Bruton

John Bruton

John Gerard Bruton is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 1994 to 1997. A minister under two taoisigh, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald, Bruton held a number of the top posts in Irish government, including Minister for Finance , and Minister for Industry, Trade,...

, former Prime Minister of Ireland and EU Ambassador to the United States, and senior EU officials such as Albrecht Rothacher and Martin Westlake.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted in The International Political Science Abstracts, a publication of the International Political Science Association. It is also covered in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, European Sources Online and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

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. Since 2008 it is also indexed in the Web of Science

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.

History

The journal emerged out of the old ECPR News starting in 2001 as an in-house publication freely distributed to members by the ECPR before moving to Palgrave Macmillan in 2005. The full text of these early issues (Vols 1-3) is available online for free.

External links

, includes free access to the full text of ECPR News

• European Political Science (EPS) Home-page at the ECPR, includes free access to the full text of Vols 1-3, 2001-2004