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Political Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and review essays across all fields and subdisciplines of political science and international relations.

Political Science is an academic journal published in Aotearoa New Zealand by the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, in association with the New Zealand Political Studies Association/Te Kāhui Tātai Tōrangapū o Aotearoa. Its foundation in 1948 makes it one of the world’s longest running political science journals. It presents original, peer reviewed, high-quality scholarship drawing on a variety of theories and methodologies. It welcomes submissions of papers, research notes and proposals for review articles from all parts of the world and, where of relevance to political science, from related disciplines such as sociology, Indigenous studies, psychology, philosophy, and economics.

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