Politics Institutions and Global Affairs

Politics, Institutions and Global Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the publication of original research, theoretical contributions, comparative studies, empirical analyses, policy-oriented research, case studies, and critical reviews in the broad fields of political science, institutional studies, international relations, global governance, public policy, and strategic affairs.

The journal aims to provide an international scholarly platform for political scientists, international-relations scholars, institutional researchers, public-policy specialists, governance experts, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, diplomats, and practitioners interested in the evolution of political systems, institutions, states, international organizations, global power relations, and contemporary political challenges.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research connecting politics and international affairs with law, economics, sociology, history, geography, security studies, public administration, communication, environmental studies, technology, and development studies, provided that the political, institutional, or global dimension remains central to the manuscript.

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

• Political Theory: classical, modern, and contemporary political thought, authority, power, legitimacy, sovereignty, democracy, justice, freedom, citizenship, equality, and political obligation.
• Comparative Politics: comparative political systems, institutions, regimes, political behavior, governance models, democratization, and cross-national political analysis.
• Political Systems and Regimes: democratic, authoritarian, hybrid, presidential, parliamentary, and semi-presidential systems and their institutional dynamics.
• Political Institutions: executives, legislatures, courts, constitutional bodies, public agencies, political organizations, and institutional interactions.
• Institutional Theory: institutional formation, institutional change, path dependence, institutional resilience, institutional effectiveness, and formal and informal institutions.
• Democracy and Democratization: democratic transitions, democratic consolidation, democratic backsliding, political accountability, participation, representation, and institutional quality.
• Authoritarianism: authoritarian institutions, regime survival, political control, elite politics, repression, co-optation, legitimacy, and authoritarian resilience.
• Elections and Electoral Politics: electoral systems, electoral behavior, campaign politics, voter participation, electoral integrity, political representation, and election administration.
• Political Parties and Party Systems: party organization, party competition, ideological change, coalition formation, party-system transformation, and political representation.
• Political Behavior: voting, participation, protest, political attitudes, political trust, public opinion, political socialization, and collective political action.
• Political Leadership and Elites: political leadership, elite recruitment, circulation of elites, decision-making, political careers, and relations between elites and citizens.
• Parliamentary Studies: legislative behavior, parliamentary oversight, committees, representation, legislative effectiveness, coalition politics, and executive-legislative relations.
• Executive Politics: heads of state, governments, cabinets, executive decision-making, bureaucratic coordination, presidential power, and political leadership.
• Judicial Politics: courts, judicial independence, constitutional adjudication, political influence on courts, judicialization of politics, and relations between judges and political institutions.
• Public Governance: transparency, accountability, institutional effectiveness, administrative capacity, integrity, governance quality, and public-sector performance.
• Public Administration: bureaucracy, civil service, administrative reform, organizational behavior, public management, state capacity, and administrative modernization.
• Public Policy: policy formulation, implementation, evaluation, policy instruments, regulatory policy, policy learning, evidence-based policymaking, and institutional determinants of policy outcomes.
• Policy Analysis: policy design, policy effectiveness, comparative policy analysis, evaluation methods, implementation challenges, and policy change.
• State and Society: relations between public institutions and society, legitimacy, citizenship, civil society, collective identity, political participation, and social change.
• International Trade Politics: trade agreements, protectionism, trade disputes, domestic politics of trade, and global trade governance.
• Global Finance and Institutions: international financial organizations, debt, monetary cooperation, financial crises, and governance of global financial systems.
• Politics of Technology: regulation of emerging technologies, digital sovereignty, technological competition, innovation policy, and political consequences of technological change.
• Space Politics: space governance, strategic competition in space, satellite systems, international space cooperation, and security dimensions of outer space.
• Global Risk and Crisis Governance: pandemics, financial crises, natural disasters, cyber threats, geopolitical crises, and institutional responses to transnational risk.
• Strategic Foresight and Future Studies: scenario analysis, political forecasting, long-term strategic change, global risks, and future transformations of political institutions and international order.
• Comparative Institutional Studies: comparison of institutional structures, governance systems, state capacity, policy processes, and political outcomes across countries and regions.
• Comparative Global Affairs: cross-regional and cross-national studies of international relations, political institutions, security, development, and governance.

The journal also welcomes emerging and innovative research on new political actors, institutional transformations, global crises, technological change, shifts in the international order, and evolving relations among states, societies, institutions, and transnational actors.