PUBLIC POLICY JOURNAL

Academic Journal Concept

 

 

RATIONALE

Governmental decisions if taken legitimately and in accordance with legal rules, result in what one would call public policies. These policies would normally satisfy diverse societal interests as the latter are taken into account when a new policy is adopted by the government. Today public policies play an essential role in any society. Open dialogue and partnership relations between the government, civil society and business are thus part and parcel of the successful development of modern societies. A key role is now assigned to the public policy institutions and processes in those countries where there is a gap between the state and its society and where state decisions are taken autonomously from societal interests. Notwithstanding, even in such countries (and Russia does not make an exception) real life experiences show that fruitful cooperation between authorities and society is possible and takes place producing sustainable public policies. Little doubt these instances do deserve being studied and analyzed by the international academic community.

Public Policy Journal positions itself as an international academic journal that aims to unite and promote the efforts of political scientists to study the theory and practice of how the states are governed, how their authorities function at different levels of governance, how civil society is involved in the decision-taking and decisions-making processes through public communications. Public communications, in turn, allow for professional and competent discussions of the mechanisms that help the governmental bodies constantly consult and take into account diverse societal interests when elaborating and taking policy decisions.

The Journal also aims at becoming the professional forum where policy analysts and experts can share their views on and their analysis of the substance of decisions taken by the states in political, economic and social policy areas as well as of whether the decision-making processes that lead to the policy adoption satisfy the criterion of transparency and openness. This  would make the journal interesting for both academic community, and policy experts and practitioners.

 

BACKLOG

The proposed Journal (to be published two times per year with the subsequent increase in frequency to four issues per year) has its roots in the Annual Review “Public Policy” that has been published since 2004 for already 10 years. The Review is edited by Dr. Mikhail Gorny and Professor Alexander Sungurov and published under the aegis of the Research committee on public policy and civil society of the Russian Political Science Association. It is time now to transform this reputable review into a full-fledged international academic peer-review journal.

 

POSSIBLE SECTIONS

The submitted articles must fall into one of the main sections of the Journal: (1) editorial, (2) political history, (3) state and society, (4) policy-making and implementation processes, (5) reforms of public policies, (6) public communications, (7) symbolic politics, (8) political expertise, (9) international dimension of public policies and global public policy, (10) articles by young scholars.

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

The Journal is established by the Russian Political Science Association in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Humanitarian Political Strategy Center and the NGO “Editorial board of the Journal “Public Policy”.

 

Sergei Akopov, PhD in Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Aleksander Balayan, PhD in Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Dmitrii Goncharov, Professor of Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Mikhail Gorny, PhD in Physics and Maths, Professor of Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Olga Malinova, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Science

 

Elena Morozova, Professor of Philosophy, Kuban' State University

 

Larisa Nikovskaya, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science

 

Oleg Podvintcev, Professor of Political Science, Perm' Academic Centre, Russian Academy of Science

 

Nina Polichka, Professor of Pedagogical Sciences, PhD in Physics and Maths, Dalnevostochniy Centre for local government, Dalnevoskochniy Law Institute, Tikhookeanskiy State University

 

Olga Popova, Professor of Political Science, Political Science School, St. Petersburg State Univeristy

 

Andreay Sherbak, PhD in Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Andrey Starodubtsev, PhD in Political Science, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Aleksander Sungurov, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Biology, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

Grigory Tulchisky, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Applied Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics

 

 

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL COUNCIL

 

Harly Balzer – Georgetown University, Professor of Government and International Affairs, USA

 

Yuri Chernyshev, Doctor of History, Head of the Department of General History and International Relations of the Altai State University, director of the Altai School of Political Studies, Barnaul

 

Hal Colebatch, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, the former chairman of the Research Committee on Public Policy and Administration of the International Political Science Association, Australia

 

Linda Cook, Professor of Brown University, USA

 

Michael Ilyin, professor of Political Science, Head of PhD school of Political Science, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

 

Ivan Krastev, Chairman of Center for Liberal Strategy, Sofia, and  permanent fellow at the IWM, Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. 

 

Andrey Makarychev, Professor of Political Science, Tartu University, Estonia

 

Bo Petersson, professor of Political Science, Malme University, Sweden

 

Blair A. Ruble, Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Director of the Center’s Urban Policy Laboratory and Senior Advisor to the Center’s Kennan Institute, USA

 

Laurent Sermet, professor of Law, Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Aix en Provence, France

 

Vladimir Yakimets, Doctor of Social Sciences, chief researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow.

 

We would also like to cooperate on a Journal project with:

 

 

David White, Professor, Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

 

Raymond Taras, professor of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA