Public Governance and Constitutional Order Review

Public Governance and Constitutional Order Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the publication of original research, theoretical contributions, comparative studies, empirical analyses, case studies, and critical reviews in the fields of public governance, constitutional law, public institutions, administrative law, public policy, and related areas.

The journal aims to provide an international platform for scholars, researchers, legal professionals, public officials, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the legal, institutional, political, and administrative foundations of public authority and constitutional order.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research connecting constitutional and public law with political science, public administration, governance studies, economics, sociology, public policy, international relations, and institutional analysis, provided that public governance or constitutional order remains a central dimension of the manuscript.

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory: constitutional principles, constitutional interpretation, constitutional design, constitutional amendments, constitutional legitimacy, separation of powers, checks and balances, constitutionalism, and constitutional transformation.
• Constitutional Justice: constitutional courts, judicial review, constitutional litigation, constitutional adjudication, protection of constitutional rights, and the role of constitutional jurisprudence.
• Political Institutions: executive institutions, legislatures, heads of state, governments, parliaments, political institutions, institutional relations, and mechanisms of political accountability.
• Public Governance: governance structures, institutional effectiveness, transparency, accountability, integrity, administrative performance, public-sector reform, and governance innovation.
• Administrative Law: administrative organization, administrative decisions, public services, administrative contracts, administrative liability, public authority, administrative discretion, and the principle of legality.
• Administrative Justice: judicial control of public administration, administrative courts, public-law litigation, enforcement of judgments against public authorities, and access to administrative justice.
• Public Administration: administrative systems, bureaucratic organization, civil service, public-sector management, administrative modernization, institutional capacity, and organizational reform.
• Public Policy: policy formulation, implementation, evaluation, regulatory design, evidence-based policymaking, public intervention, and institutional determinants of policy outcomes.
• Democracy and Democratic Governance: democratic institutions, democratic consolidation, political participation, representative government, institutional trust, democratic accountability, and democratic resilience.
• Elections and Electoral Governance: electoral systems, electoral administration, electoral disputes, political representation, campaign regulation, electoral integrity, and political participation.
• Parliamentary Studies: legislative processes, parliamentary oversight, parliamentary committees, law-making, legislative effectiveness, and relations between legislatures and executives.
• Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: constitutional and legal protection of rights, civil and political rights, social and economic rights, equality, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, privacy, and access to information.
• Rule of Law: legality, legal certainty, judicial independence, institutional accountability, access to justice, constitutional safeguards, and the relationship between law and public authority.
• Judicial Governance: judicial independence, judicial administration, court governance, judicial accountability, legal institutions, and relationships between courts and political institutions.
• Decentralization and Local Governance: local government, territorial governance, decentralization, devolution, regionalization, local autonomy, intergovernmental relations, and local public administration.
• Public Finance and Budgetary Governance: public budgeting, financial accountability, public expenditure, fiscal governance, audit, public financial management, and parliamentary control of public finances.
• Public Procurement and Public Contracts: procurement regulation, transparency, competition, public contracts, public-private partnerships, procurement disputes, and public accountability.
• Anti-Corruption and Integrity: corruption prevention, institutional integrity, conflicts of interest, transparency mechanisms, ethics in public office, whistleblowing, and anti-corruption institutions.
• Independent Regulatory Authorities: regulatory agencies, constitutional bodies, independent authorities, institutional autonomy, regulatory governance, supervision, and accountability.
• Civil Service and Public Employment: public-sector employment, recruitment, professional ethics, disciplinary systems, rights and duties of public officials, and civil-service reform.
• Digital Government and E-Governance: digital public administration, e-government, algorithmic decision-making, digital public services, administrative automation, and digital transformation of the public sector.
• Artificial Intelligence and Public Governance: use of artificial intelligence by public institutions, automated administrative decisions, algorithmic accountability, transparency, public-sector innovation, and regulatory challenges.
• Data Protection and Public Authorities: privacy, personal-data protection, digital rights, state information systems, surveillance, and regulation of public-sector data use.
• Emergency Powers and Constitutional Order: states of emergency, crisis governance, exceptional powers, constitutional safeguards, national emergencies, and the balance between security and fundamental rights.
• Security and Public Order: public security, administrative policing, counterterrorism governance, emergency management, national security institutions, and legal safeguards.
• International and Comparative Constitutional Law: comparative constitutional systems, constitutional borrowing, constitutional convergence and divergence, constitutional transitions, and cross-country institutional analysis.
• Global and Transnational Governance: international institutions, supranational governance, global regulatory frameworks, transnational public law, and the interaction between national and international governance structures.
• International Public Law and Constitutional Order: sovereignty, international obligations, treaty implementation, relationships between domestic and international law, and constitutional dimensions of international cooperation.
• Governance and Sustainable Development: public institutions, environmental governance, climate governance, sustainable development policies, institutional resilience, and public-sector responsibility.
• Institutional Reform and State Modernization: constitutional reform, public administration reform, modernization of institutions, institutional design, capacity building, and transformation of state structures.
• • Government Accountability and Oversight: parliamentary, judicial, administrative, financial, and independent oversight of public institutions and public officials.
  • Public Ethics: ethical standards in government, responsible public leadership, integrity systems, professional responsibility, and public trust.
  • Comparative Public Governance: cross-national and cross-regional comparisons of administrative, constitutional, political, regulatory, and governance systems.

  The journal also welcomes emerging and innovative research on new challenges affecting constitutional order, public authority, governance institutions, public administration, and the relationship between the state, institutions, and citizens.