Policy Studies Yearbook
The annual Policy Studies Yearbook is an international listing of policy scholars with contact information, fields of specialization, research references, and a short statement of research interests. This provides an accessible directory for who is studying what, where, and how in the field of public policy. Additionally, the Yearbook has also published an Annual Review since 2009. Free access to all past issues can be found on the home page of the Yearbook website. The Editor is now calling for papers for the latest Yearbook Annual Review. Article and commentary proposals and/or submissions of 8-9,000 words or less, including abstract citations and references in Chicago Author-Date style, should be sent as Word files with a covering email to
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Traditionally, the Yearbook Annual Review focused on publishing review and research articles co-authored by faculty and advanced graduate students. From 2021, inclusion in the Review publication is open to all scholars who conduct research in public policy, including independent scholars, faculty professors, advanced graduate students and policy practitioners. Submissions will undergo rigorous double-blind peer review. In the past, the content of the Yearbook Review included short review articles summarizing the most recent scholarship in specific policy subfields. We will continue to publish such articles on the state of the academic literature now and in the future. However, from 2021 the Yearbook’s Annual Review is broadening its aims and scope to also include articles and shorter commentaries reviewing key practical policy developments of the previous year (or last few years). Such articles and commentaries may focus on either one policy area across several countries, or policy developments in a single state or region (one policy area or related areas). The policy implications, developments, and misdevelopments have been especially momentous lately concerning, for instance: the global pandemic, international aid and cooperation, democratic accountability, vaccine development and distribution, lockdown policies, Covid-19 variant transmission, economic recovery, trade restrictions and opportunities, public diplomacy, great powers and grand strategy, border controls, freedom of movement and association, regional fragmentation, globalization and its discontents, and a host of other areas. There is, of course, much to be said concerning the lightning speed of many policy developments over the last year or so, both within and between states. It is the aim of the Yearbook Annual Review of 2021 to publish the best articles and commentaries in these and other policy areas and provide a spirited forum for discussion, comment, critique and careful connection to the most recent academic advancements in the literature.
Articles will all be featured in the listings within the Yearbook to facilitate access to current policy research. They will also be featured here on the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) website, and listed in the PSO curriculum project searchable article database along with the many other articles published in PSO journals such as the Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy Research, Politics & Policy, Policy and Internet, and Asian Politics and Policy.
Editor:
Emma R. Norman
Emma R. Norman