About the Journal

Focus and Scope

This journal has a focus on the research and study on political science and policy-related. The scope is the political and policy phenomenon, the history and transformation of power, changes and stagnation of political institutions, actor orientation and behavior, the performance of political regimes, cultural and socio-economic structures of political regimes, democracy, state and government policy, parliament and legislation, election, social movement, constitutional politics and international politics. The scope is not limited by state, nation, temporal duration, certain ideas, and narrow beliefs.

This journal is open to various approaches, theories, methodologies, research methods carried out by scientists, academics, researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the fields and disciplines:

  • Political Economy;
  • Social and political science;
  • Government, public administration, and public policy,;
  • International relations;
  • Political sociology; and
  • Political history.

Peer Review Process

Publication of articles by JPpol is dependent primarily on their validity and coherence, as judged by peer reviewers, who are also asked whether the writing is comprehensible and how interesting they consider the article to be. All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff and only those articles that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. All forms of published correction may also be peer-reviewed at the discretion of the editors. Reviewer selection is critical to the publication process, and we base our choice on many factors, including expertise, reputation, and specific recommendations. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice, from among several possibilities:

Accepted, with or without editorial revisions. Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision.

Rejected, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission.

Rejected outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems

Galley proof will be scanned for detecting the plagiarism level (< 5%).

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Sponsors

JPPOL di bawah naungan dari Program Studi Ilmu Politik Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Brawijaya.