PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift

Zusammenfassung

Aktuelle Fors chungsergebnisse und kontroverse Diskussionen aus allen Teilbereichen der Politikwissenschaft: Die Zeitschrift bietet Raum für neueste Forschungsergebnisse aus allen Teildisziplinen der Politikwissenschaft. Sie beinhaltet somit Beiträge aus der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte, aus dem Bereich Analyse und Vergleich politischer Systeme, aus der Policy-Analyse, aus dem Bereich der Internationalen Beziehungen und der Außenpolitik, aus der empirischen Sozialforschung und Methodenlehre sowie aus der Politischen Soziologie.

Die PVS umfasst vier Kategorien von Beiträgen : Die Abhandlungen stellen den Kern der Zeitschrift dar. In dieser Rubrik werden theoriegeleitete, methodisch reflektierte Forschungsbeiträge aus allen Bereichen der Politikwissenschaft veröffentlicht. Im Forum sollen wissenschaftliche Kontroversen angestoßen oder ausgetragen werden. Die Kommentare beinhalten wissenschaftlich fundierte Stellungnahmen zu Problemen der politischen Entwicklung oder des Faches „Politikwissenschaft“. Mit den Literaturberichten wird ein breiter Überblick über den internationalen Forschungsstand, über aktuelle Entwicklungen und die hierzu erschienene Literatur in einem bestimmten Forschungsfeld gegeben.

Homepage: www.pvs.nomos.de

Abstract

Current Rese arch Findings and Controversial Discussions from all areas and sub-areas of Political Science: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) has been published since 1960 by the executive and advisory board of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). The journal provides space for recent research findings from all sub-areas of political science. It therefore contains papers on political theory and the history of ideas; on comparative governance and politics; the domains of policy analysis, international relations and foreign policy; on political sociology; and papers in the areas of empirical social research and methodology.

The PVS contains four categories of articles : The critical papers form the core category of the journal. In this section, are published theory-based and methodically reflected articles from all sub-areas of political science.

Within the forum section, contemporary scientific controversies are debated.

The commentaries contain scientifically well-grounded statements with reference to current issues of political developments or to the field of political science.

The review essays provide a broad overview of the international state of the art of political science, as well as current developments and relevant published literature regarding a particular research-field.

The PVS-Literatur publishes reviews of single publications from all sub-fields of the discipline of political sciences, as well as accumulative reviews presenting more than one new publication within an area of political sciences.

Every paper published in the PVS (within the categories critical papers and forum) is run through a double-blind expertise process prior to publication. Generally, two external referees examine the anonymous manuscripts. The referee reports are also made anonymous before being handed back to the authors. Additionally, the authors can be provided with references from the editorial board.

The editors rely on the collaboration of the colleagues in the scientific discipline as their referees and reviewers. Anyone interested in being a referee or reviewer is welcomed to complete and submit the PVS-reviewer-form or referee-form to the editor. Next to your name and address please indicate your field of investigative interest as well. This information will be added to the editorial database.

Website: www.pvs.nomos.de