About the Journal

We are open access (CC-BY-NC) because democracy demands transparency. Authors retain copyright while ensuring policymakers, activists, and educators can freely engage with their work.

Scope & Focus

• Power Under the Microscope: Voting behavior, institutional decay, and the unwritten rules of political survival

• Policy That Actually Lands: From local ordinances to global treaties, what works, what backfires, and why

• Conflict & Cooperation: Diplomatic chess games, non-state actor strategies, and the dark art of sanctions

• Data-Driven Politics: Election forensics, AI in governance, and the weaponization of big data

• Ideas in the Wild: Political theory tested in the field, when Rawls meets reality

Why Publish Here?

• "Policy Autopsies" Section: Unflinching postmortems of legislative wins and disasters

• No Ivory Tower BS: Rejects jargon without justification, if it doesn’t clarify power, cut it

• Global South Lens: Prioritizes research on understudied governance systems

• Scholar-Activist Bridge: Welcomes participatory action research with clear methodology

Peer Review With Edge

• Triple-anonymized to crush prestige bias, we judge ideas, not affiliations

• Data or GTFO: Requires replication files for quantitative work, trail notes for ethnography

• Rapid Response Reviews: Fast-tracked analysis for breaking political crises