Hi everyone! PSR will not be processing new submissions during the month of August as our editors take a well earned break! If you have submitted a paper to us before the August period and not yet received a response, please wait until September before following up.

📖📖We're looking for more book reviewers!📖📖 Take a look at the list of books we need reviewed. If you're interested in reviewing one of these books for us, please get in touch: journals.sagepub.com/author-instr.... or contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk

📖We are looking for more book reviewers!📖 As always, check out our website: journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... or contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

That's right folks, we have more books we'd like reviewed!! As always, check out our website journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... or contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk

🚨🚨Interested in politics? Have a critical eye and a penchant for a captivating turn of phrase? Write a book review for us!🚨🚨 Contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk

🙌🙌We've had an unbelievable response to our call for Commissioned Book reviews! Thank you to all of you that have already reviewed a book with us. But, with so many fantastic books coming out, we need even more reviewers! 🙌🙌 Contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk

🙌🙌We've had an unbelievable response to our call for Commissioned Book reviews! Thank you to all of you that have already reviewed a book with us. But, with so many fantastic books coming out, we need even more reviewers! 🙌🙌 Contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk

📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed! journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... For further info contact our editor @historydafydd.bsky.social: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🎆🎆Congratulations to our Best Research Article 2025 Award Winners!🎆🎆 @louisevthompson.bsky.social & @ameakin.bsky.social You can read this award winning article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Are you in Oxford today for #PSA26? Don't miss our 'Meet the Editors' session today at 11.30-12.30 with @historydafydd.bsky.social!! Session at the East School, Examination Schools We hope to see you there!

🎆🎆Congratulations to our Best Short Form Article 2025 Award Winner!🎆🎆 Joan Timoneda For their article: Revisiting the Personalism and Economic Performance Debate: Do All Personalist Dictators Produce Worse Economic Outcomes? Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have you seen the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees yet?!? You can see a full list of the nominees, and read their articles, here: journals.sagepub.com/page/psw/col... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🎆Congratulations to the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees!!🎆 You can see a full list of the nominees, and read their articles, here: journals.sagepub.com/page/psw/col... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We will not be processing new submissions between 19th December and 5th of January, while our editorial team take some well deserved rest over the holiday period. See you in 2026!

Our editors work tirelessly to provide a unique intellectual space for rigorous high-quality peer reviewed original research. We think our editors deserve a little break over the summer. They will be back to stimulating wide-ranging debate at the end of August. Until then, have a great summer!

🚨Call for Submissions!!!🚨 Special Issue: 250th Anniversary of the United States of America’s founding Theme: America at a Turning Point? Guest editor: ‪josephineharmon.bsky.social ‬, Assistant Prof. in Political Science Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2025 ‪polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬

The 2025 KNU International Conference this month was a fantastic success! Thank you to KNU & everyone that helped in hosting and organising the event, and for all of you that came along! #2025KNUInternationalConference #Research #academicpublishing #conference @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

If you're attending the #2025KNUInternationalConference today don't forget to come along to the 'Meet the Editors' roundtable at 14:30! One of our editors, Dr Nora Siklodi, is one of the panelists! @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

It was great to be @sagepub.com for #IPSA2025 with our @polstudies.bsky.social colleagues If you’re around and didn’t get a chance to catch up with us but have any Qs to our editors, please feel free to reach out here too! 📚 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @nsiklodi.bsky.social

We are gearing up for co-hosting and participating in the 2025 KNU International Conference next week! Make sure to come along to our 'Meet the Editors' roundtable! Details below! @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨Call for Submissions!!!🚨 Special Issue: 250th Anniversary of the United States of America’s founding Theme: America at a Turning Point? Guest editor: ‪josephineharmon.bsky.social ‬, Assistant Prof. in Political Science Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2025 ‪polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬

We are happy to announce that this year Political Studies Review, has increased its impact factor again! We are delighted to see PSR’s growing impact and visibility. It really reflects the dedication of our authors and reviewers, and the strong foundations laid by the Brunel editorial team.

🚨Call for Submissions!!!🚨 Special Issue: 250th Anniversary of the United States of America’s founding Theme: America at a Turning Point? Guest editor: ‪@josephineharmon.bsky.social‬, Assistant Prof. in Political Science Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2025 ‪@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬

We are delighted to announce that Nok Hin Au, Chan Ka Ming and Ka Lun NG have won the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For: Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization Read (OA) here: lnkd.in/enZA3yEY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that Dr Neil Collins, Dr Elaine Sharplin & Dr Aziz Burkhanov have been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For their article: Challenges for Political Science Research Ethics in Autocracies: A Case Study of Central Asia

We are delighted to announce that Dr Julian Waller has been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For: Distinctions With a Difference: Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in Scholarly Study (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that Dr Seongcheol Kim & Dr ‪@aurelmondon.bsky.social‬ have been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For their article: From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias: A Constructivist Critique of the Attitudes Approach to Populism

We are delighted to announce that ‪@svenjakrauss.bsky.social‬ & @sarahwagner.bsky.social‬ have been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For their article: Take the Streets or Take the Parliament? Political Participation Choices of Radical Left Individuals

We are delighted to announce that Patricia García-Espín has been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! They have been shortlisted for their article: Class Inequalities and Participatory Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Social Inclusion Tools in Citizens’ Assemblies

We are delighted to announce that Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher has been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For their article: Diplomacy Versus Politics: Two Mutually (In)Dependent Systems journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sagepub.com @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social