European Political Science (EPS) is a peer-reviewed
academic journal.
The professional journal of the European Consortium
for Political Research (ECPR), it has been
published in collaboration with Palgrave Macmillan
since 2005.
The journal's interpretation of 'political
science' is wide, and encompasses comparative
politics, political economy, international
relations, public administration, political
theory, European studies and related disciplines.
It publishes pieces on how the discipline
is, can be and ought to be.
Articles address research matters (including
debates in the discipline, research projects,
political science information sources, funding
opportunities); professional matters (such
as career structures and prospects, external
evaluation, higher education reforms, accreditation
issues); doctoral training provision and teaching
matters; and relations between academics and
politicians, policy-makers, journalists and
ordinary citizens.
EPS also includes more substantive pieces
that provide a political science perspective
on important current events.
In addition to original articles, the journal
carries shorter notes, review articles and
symposia, progress reports on lively areas
of research and profiles of people in the
profession.
Each issue of EPS also contains book reviews.
The main content of the journal is edited
by Martin Bull (Academic Director of the ECPR),
Luis de Sousa, Jonathon Moses and Jacqui Briggs.
The Reviews section of each issue is edited
by Lasse Thomassen.
EPS has published reviews by leading European
and international political scientists and
theorists such as Jean Blondel, Rachel A Epstein,
Michelle Everson, Michael Freeden, Michael
Keating, Peter Lassman, Peter Mair, Glyn Morgan,
Gianfranco Pasquino, and Philippe C. Schmitter.
Other reviewers have included John Bruton,
former Prime Minister of Ireland and EU Ambassador
to the United States, and senior EU officials
such as Albrecht Rothacher and Martin Westlake.
== History ==
The journal emerged from the old ECPR News,
starting in 2001 as an in-house publication
distributed free to members by the ECPR before
moving to Palgrave Macmillan in 2005.
The full text of these early issues (Vols
1-3) is available online for free.
== Abstracting and indexing ==
The journal is abstracted in The International
Political Science Abstracts, a publication
of the International Political Science Association.
It is also covered in Worldwide Political
Science Abstracts, European Sources Online
and the International Bibliography of the
Social Sciences.
According to the Journal Citation Reports,
the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.292
