Policy Press

Welcome to our European Consortium for Political Research virtual stand

In place of being able to be at the ECPR conference this year, we have created this virtual space so that we can connect with everyone we would have met there.

Find all the book and journal highlights we would have had on our stand below, including:


View a message below from Stephen Wenham, Publisher in Politics and International Relations:

You can book an appointment with Stephen between 24 and 28 August to talk about publishing projects or get in touch at stephen.wenham@bristol.ac.uk. Visit our Author Hub for more information on publishing with us.

Download our Politics and International Relations subject flyer.

50% OFF ALL OUR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BOOKS UNTIL 28TH AUGUST

All of our Politics and International Relations books are available with 50% discount until 28th August. Use promo code POECPR20 at the check out. Sign up to our newsletter and receive a code for 35% off all books purchased on our website all year round.

New series: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development 

View two messages below from the series editors and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Mortan Bøås, editors for the book. Find out more about the series here. 


Spaces of Peace, Security and Development


The first two books in the series, Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention, and Surviving Everyday Life, are 50% off until 28th August using promo code POECPR20.

Coming this September: It's the Government, Stupid


It's the Government, Stupid by Keith Dowding.

Policy & Politics: A world-leading political science journal

Policy & Politics is now ranked in the top ten international journals in Public Administration and in the top twenty in Political Science according to the Journal Citation Reports. The journal’s Impact Factor of 3.069 confirms its position as a world-leading publication, committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation. 

To celebrate the journal’s latest impact factor we have created a free collection of highly cited articles. The collection is free to read until 31 August, including:

Understanding the transfer of policy failure: bricolage, experimentalism and translation
Diane Stone

Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs [Open Access]
Paul Cairney

Read the full collection of highly cited articles

The European Journal of Politics and Gender

The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is endorsed by the Gender and Politics Standing Group of the ECPR. To celebrate our relationship with the ECPR we have created a free gender reading list for the conference. The ECPR gender reading list explores violence against women in politics, interrogates the gender gap in political ambition and features award-winning research from the journal.

The reading list includes:

The special issue - Rethinking the ambition gap: gender and candidate emergence in comparative perspective
Guest Edited by Jennifer M. Piscopo and Meryl Kenny

Violence against women in politics: emerging perspectives, new challenges
Author: Malin Holm

Bringing epistemology into intersectional methodology – winner of the Canadian Political Science Association's Jill Vickers prize
Author: Alexie Labelle

Explore the full ECPR Gender Reading List

The EJPG best paper award

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Best Article Award for the European Journal of Politics and Gender has been awarded to Saskia Glas and Niels Spierings for their article Support for feminism among highly religious Muslim citizens in the Arab region. As a reward, the article has been made Open Access.

According to the Award Committee, Glas and Spiering's article is an important contribution to the feminist literature and has relevance for political and social debates on gender, feminism, and religion in the Arab world.

Learn more about this award winning research.

Introducing the new EJPG editorial team

We are pleased to announce the new editorial team led by Jessica Fortin-Rittberger and Khursheed Wadia as Lead Editors with Phillip Ayoub, Althea-Maria Rivas and Emily St Denny as Associate Editors. This team will take over from the Founding Editors in September 2020.

Learn more about the new editors and their vision for the journal.

Global Discourse

Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy.  

The journal’s latest Editor’s Choice Collection draws on the recent issue on the Politics of Negative Emotions. These articles which will be particularly relevant as we grapple with the political fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The collection is free to read until 31 October and includes: 

Moral economies of exclusion: politics of fear through antagonistic anonymity 
Author: Søren Mosgaard Andreasen 

Anger fast and slow: mediations of justice and violence in the age of populism 
Author: William Davies 

Green shame: the next moral revolution? 
Author: Martha Claeys 

Free Editors’ Choice and Highlights collections are also available for Policy & Politics and the European Journal of Politics and Gender

Matthew Johnson, editor of Global Discourse, talks about upcoming issues of the journal and an open call for issue ideas.

Pick up catalogues and flyers

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    Autumn 2020 catalogue

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    Politics and International Relations

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    Bristol Studies in East Asian International Relations

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    Bristol Studies in International Theory

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    Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

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    Transnational Administration and Global Policy

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