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The Forum
A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics
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Herausgegeben von:
Devin Caughey
Sprache:
Englisch
Erstveröffentlichung:
1. Mai 2003
Erscheinungsweise:
4 Hefte pro Jahr
Über diese Zeitschrift
Objective
This journal provides a forum for professionally informed commentary on issues affecting contemporary American politics. This includes but is not limited to issues engaging parties, elections, and political participation; the news media, interest groups, Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts; trends in public finance, presidential popularity, congressional productivity; in contemporary, historical, or comparative perspective.
The journal is motivated by the view that social scientists, historians, and legal scholars frequently have important insights into the concerns that arise in contemporary politics and government, drawing upon the disciplinary knowledge at their command. Yet they frequently lack a publishing outlet willing to print the analytic reasoning that gives weight to the resulting commentary. The Forum is designed to fill this gap.
We contemplate a journal free of fixed position and requiring no particular verdict with respect to policies, institutions, or processes. Well-reasoned discussion, disciplined by reference to established bodies of knowledge or aimed at stimulating the creation of such knowledge, is the goal of this journal.
What scholars are saying about The Forum
Over recent years I have seen the wealth of articles available through this electronic journal and consider it a valuable resource both for my own research and for keeping in touch with the field generally.
James F. Guyot, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
This is a major new initiative in electronic publishing, featuring contributions by some of the best U.S. and international scholars of political science and public policy.
Joe Atkinson, Senior Lecturer and Research Director, Political Science, University of Auckland
Its editors have succeeded in attracting knowledgeable and articulate scholars as authors of articles that deal with important issues in a manner that will appeal to a wide range of college educated readers.
Christian Soe, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach
This electronic journal consistently provides high level cutting edge research which is extremely timely and cogent with respect to the topics which are important to my research and teaching. Anyone in the field of American government and politics would benefit from the most current issue of The Forum for example.
John Jackson, Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
This publication is increasingly becoming a "must have" for study of American government.
Melvin J. Dubnick, Professor, University of New Hampshire
Topics- American politics
- Political parties
- Elections and political participation
- The news media
- Interest groups
- Congress and the Presidency
- Courts
- Trends in public finance
- American foreign policy
Article formats
Texts longer than newspaper columns but shorter than orthodox journal articles
Ihre Vorteile
Your benefits
- Interdisciplinary outlook on American politics
- Most recent researches
- Analytic reasoning
- Contemporary, historical, or comparative perspective
- Politically independent
- Editorial board including top figures in American political science
- The Forum bridges the gap between academic political science and real-world politics
- Open access publication
Geschichte
Four issues/year
Content available since 2002 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
ISSN: 1540-8884
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Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertAlison W. Craig. 2023. The Collaborative Congress: Reaching Common Ground in a Polarized House. Cambridge University Press. $110 cloth. 225 pagesLizenziert8. Februar 2024
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| Journal Impact Factor | 0.8 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.41 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 1.8 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.468 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.492 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Submission
Submissions to The Forum should be made in MS Word and emailed directly to the editors at theforum.degruyter@gmail.com
Submissions to The Forum should be made in MS Word and emailed directly to the editors at theforum.degruyter@gmail.com
- Text should be double-spaced, in Times New Roman, with twelve-point font, and indentations to the first sentence of each paragraph. Either footnotes or scientific notation are acceptable (a list of references should follow at the end of the document). Exhibits can be in any standard, easily edited format
- Submissions will be acknowledged expeditiously
- Please include cover page with the following:
1. The title
2. The names of authors, with their institutional affiliations and email addresses
3. A single-spaced abstract of about 150 – 250 words
4. Three to five keywords
5. A one- or two-sentence biography of each author - References: Please use the The Chicago Manual of Style author-date system for parenthetical citation in the text and the related reference list entry. For more specific details please visit http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html and click on the Author-Date tab
- IMPORTANT: By submitting to The Forum, you are agreeing to the terms of the De Gruyter Copyright Agreement. To view the full CTA, please visit the following link: Copyright Transfer Agreement
Your benefits of publishing with us
- Insightful reviews
- High citation rates, abstracting and indexing of your article
- Top journal in political sciences
- Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
- Increasing Impact Factor
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Submission process
- Submission of your paper at theforum.degruyter@gmail.com
- Peer review process
- Decision on your paper
- Print/online publishing
Please note
- Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access
- Our Repository Policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
- If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for authors
We look forward to receiving your manuscript!
Editor
Devin Caughey, MIT, USA
Book Review Editor
Rachel Blum, Miami University, USA
Editorial Assistant
Regina Wagner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Editorial Board
Sarah A. Binder, George Washington University, USA
Edward G. Carmines, Indiana University, USA
James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel DiSalvo, City College, City University of New York, USA
Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University, USA
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University, USA
Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego, USA
Richard G. C. Johnston, University of British Columbia, UK
Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
David R. Mayhew, Yale University, USA
James Lee Ray, Vanderbilt University, USA
Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Peter N. Skerry, Boston College, USA
Paul M. Sniderman, Stanford University, USA
Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Amber Wichowsky, Marquette University, USA
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eISSN:
1540-8884
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
De Gruyter
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Erstveröffentlichung:
1. Mai 2003
Erscheinungsweise:
4 Hefte pro Jahr
eISSN:
1540-8884
Zielgruppe(n) für diese Zeitschrift
Professional political scientists, as well as a wide audience of anyone interested in American politics
