Welcome to Research and Politics

"Research & Politics aims to advance systematic peer-reviewed research in political science and related fields through the publication of the very best cutting-edge research and policy analysis. The journal provides a venue for scholars to communicate rapidly and succinctly important new insights to the broadest possible audience while maintaining the highest standards of quality control. To meet this goal Research & Politics publishes short, accessible articles that present novel findings or insights, or fresh views on current disputes or classic papers. The Journal is published online only and uses an open access model to enhance readership and impact. Articles are published simultaneously with technical research reports and appendices, with an emphasis on the highest standards of research ethics and, where applicable, replicability. Papers are accepted from political science, public policy, public administration, international relations and other related fields. Research & Politics will be open for submissions from late September 2013, with the first articles published early in 2014 ... Contributions based on qualitative and quantitative data should be well documented and, if data is collected by the author, well described.  Making datasets publicly available is a policy of Research & Politics. Only on the basis of a well-motivated request of the author at the time of submission may the Board of Editors decide, in exceptional cases, to publish an article without publicly available data.  For contributions based on quantitative data, Research & Politics requires the author to submit their data set (or a link to it) and their syntax/command files for the analysis presented in the contribution. If applicable, efforts should also be made to link to or provide detail of the datasets used to construct the current set.  Data can be hosted on the SAGE Research & Politics website and/or authors should use a recognised third party data repository service to host their data ... Research & Politicsaccomplishes open access by using a business model in which its expenses are recovered from a variety of sources, including an author publication fee charged on acceptance.  For the first two years this fee is universally waived. Thereafter, authors from the following categories (students; early career researchers; retired researchers; unaffiliated researchers; researchers from developing countries and other who demonstrate economic hardship) who do not have the available funds to cover the publication fee may request a waiver after acceptance ... All Research & Politics papers are published under Creative Commons licenses that allow for the properly attributed reuse of the work without charge. Authors are able to choose which of three Creative Commons licences they would like their work to be published under ..."