The students putting together this journal asked me to blog this very cool idea:
Polisci Journal:
- This year, UPS will be putting out a political science journal composed of papers that students write this semester or have written in the past.
- The journal has three main goals:
o To establish a forum in which ideas and research related to political science may be shared and discussed.
o To ensure that students’ hard work on papers does not go to waste.
o To ultimately provide a collection of work that may be read and referred to by future students.
The requirements for a submission are:
- It must be a paper that relates to a contemporary political science issue (political theory papers are welcome, but remember that theoretical papers may have contemporary applications).
- It may relate to any of the four sub-departments in the political science department: Theory, International Relations, U.S. Politics, or Comparative Politics.
- Moreover, if it discusses any social science issue that is intimately related to politics, it may be submitted and will be considered with all the rest.
- Papers of all lengths will be accepted.
Ultimately, we are hoping to not only have a printed version of the journal, but to put the journal online where it will be accessible for free to anyone who is interested. Furthermore, we will include discussion forums on all the papers so that readers can respond to the paper and discuss related ideas.
As of yet, there is no official title for the journal. Anyone with a catchy or creative title should e-mail it in.
Submissions should be e-mailed to hstevens@ups.edu. Details will follow on due dates for submissions, but get writing and get excited! Your work could be published!!
