About this journal

The Australian Journal of Political Science is the official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association. The editorial team of the Journal includes a range of Australian and overseas specialists covering the major subdisciplines of political studies. We publish quality research across a diverse range of subfields in political science including international relations, public policy, political communications, political sociology and political theory.

International in its outlook, readership and content, we publish articles at the cutting edge of the discipline, characterised by conceptual clarity, methodological rigour, substantive interest, theoretical coherence, broad appeal, originality and insight.

Though primarily oriented to Australian content and scholars, we will consider international content of a high quality, relevant to the Journal’s audience. We welcome publications across a diverse range of methodological approaches. We are committed to improving the number of submissions and published articles by authors from underrepresented groups and Early Career Researchers and to improving gender parity within the discipline.

We also publish research notes on a wide range of problem-driven scholarship. Research notes should be shorter and more focused than article manuscripts, demonstrate a novel perspective on existing research and encourage scholarly debate.

We do not publish book reviews or commentaries.

Editors
Anika Gauja – Sydney University, Australia
Nicole Curato – University of Canberra, Australia
Richard Frank – Australian National University, Australia
Rob Manwaring– Flinders University, Australia

Please send any queries for the editors to [email protected] or, for the review section, [email protected]

Editorial Board
Amitav Acharya - American University, USA
Clive Bean - Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Roland Bleiker - University of Queensland, Australia
Louise Chappell - University of New South Wales, Australia
Jennifer Curtin - University of Auckland, UK
Sara Davies - Griffith University, Australia
Keith Dowding - Australian National University, Australia
John Dryzek - University of Canberra, Australia
Elizabeth Frazer - University of Oxford, UK
Steffen Ganghof - University of Potsdam, Germany
Dennis Grube - University of Cambridge, UK
Baogang He - Deakin University, Australia
Lisa Hill - University of Adelaide, Australia
Takashi Inoguchi – University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Simon Jackman - University of Sydney, Australia
Katrina Lee-Koo - Monash University, Australia
Gurpreet Mahajan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ian McAllister - Australian National University, Australia
Michael Mintrom - Monash University, Australia
Pippa Norris - Harvard University, USA
Carole Pateman - University of California, USA
Garry Rodan - Murdoch University, Australia
Marian Sawer - Australian National University, Australia
Marian Simms - Deakin University, Australia
Paul t’Hart - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jana von Stein - Australian National University, Australia
Patrick Weller – Griffith University, Australia
Lea Ypi - London School of Economics, UK

The aim of the Australian Political Studies Association is to promote the development of political studies. Membership is open to anyone holding an appointment in political science or allied subjects in a University or University College in Australia. Other persons whose participation in the activities of the Association is likely, in the opinion of the Executive, to be advantageous to political studies may be admitted to membership. The annual membership fees is AU$130.00, including AU$7.00 IPSA levy (students and retired persons: AU$55.00). A three-year membership is available for AU$285.00, including AU$21.00 IPSA levy. Membership benefits include a subscription to the Australian Journal of Political Science.

The Association holds an Annual Conference, usually in September each year, at a university in Australia. An Annual General Meeting of the membership of the Association is held during the Annual Conference to elect the Association’ executive from among its members.

Applications for membership are available via the Association's web page: www.auspsa.org.au

APSA Executive Committee 2021
PRESIDENT
Helen Sullivan – Australian National University

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Rodney Smith – University of Sydney

VICE PRESIDENT
Jim Jose – University of Newcastle

TREASURER
Paul Fawcett – The University of Melbourne

ORDINARY MEMBERS
Duncan McDonnell – Griffith University
Narelle Miragliotta – Monash University
Peter Tangey – Flinders University

APSA STANDING COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE
William Clapton – University of New South Wales

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE EDITOR
Annika Werner – Australian National University

WOMEN'S CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVE
Jill Sheppard – Australian National University

FIRST PEOPLES' POLITICS FORUM REPRESENTATIVE
Sana Nakata – University of Melbourne

POSTGRADUATE CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVE
Paige Fletcher – Flinders University