Interest Groups & Advocacy

期刊简介：Interest Groups & Advocacy will engage broadly with the politics of interests. It will record and analyze how advocacy by groups, movements and lobbying professionals shapes policy, and it will address important debates about how such interests are mobilized and maintained. It will cast a wide net across politics and society to identify the forces, strategies, and tactics that determine policy change. Open to diverse methodologies, it welcomes studies that address theoretical issues, report rigorous empirical work, and deliver insight on the range of change agents and their behaviour and impact.Although this is a field traditionally dominated by American political science, in recent years there has been a widening geographical range as scholarly attention has reflected the growth of numbers, lobbyists have proliferated, and spending has increased in Europe, and in many states, provinces and localities around the world. Such territorial expansion of focus has been accompanied by broadened interest in the number and type of advocacy organizations, (far from the textbook stereotypes of interest groups), such as multi-national corporations, NGOs, and social movements, that seek to influence public policies.With the active assistance of a diverse and experienced editorial board, the Editors explicitly seek to create a visible, well-regarded journal with the highest standards.Whether in addressing historical issues or recent events, prospective articles should be sophisticated and of interest to a wide audience. We seek incisive, well-researched, and well-written articles. These qualities are especially important given our desire to attract contributions and attention from practitioners in the worlds of lobbying and group organization. Alongside the Editorial Board there is a Practice Panel to ensure our contents are credible in the world of practice.Although this journal is anchored within political science, these aims will not be addressed satisfactorily without submissions from other disciplines, such as economics, sociology, law, and history. Social movement scholarship clearly falls under the broad field; likewise, public affairs makes up a major component of the process of competitive advocacy that is now commonplace as a proxy for democratic contestation.The Editors and the editorial board welcome contributions in this broad area and intend to respond promptly to authors, with a goal of communicating decisions in no more than six weeks.Although these matters have long received scholarly attention, they have never commanded the attention of a single journal and specialist reviewing. We look forward to establishing Interest Groups & Advocacy as this focal point.

【译文】兴趣集团与倡导将广泛涉猎利益政治。它将记录和分析集团、运动和游说专业人士如何塑造政策，并将探讨关于如何动员和维持此类利益的重要辩论。它将在政治和社会的广泛领域内寻找决定政策变化的势力、策略和战术。它对多种方法论持开放态度，欢迎研究理论问题、报告严谨的实证工作，并就变革推动者和他们的行为及其影响提供见解。尽管这个领域传统上由美国政治科学主导，但近年来，随着学术关注的增长、游说人士的增多以及欧洲以及世界各地许多州、省和地区的支出增加，地理范围已经扩大。这种关注领域的地域扩张伴随着对倡导组织数量和类型的广泛兴趣，这些组织（远非教科书中的利益集团刻板印象）如跨国公司、非政府组织和社会运动，试图影响公共政策。在多元化的资深编辑委员会的积极协助下，编辑们明确寻求创建一个可见、备受推崇的期刊，并设定最高标准。无论是对历史问题还是近期事件的探讨，预期的文章都应具有深度并吸引广泛受众。我们寻求深刻、研究严谨、文笔流畅的文章。鉴于我们希望吸引游说和团体组织领域的实践者的贡献和关注，这些品质尤为重要。除了编辑委员会外，还有一个实践小组以确保我们的内容在实践世界中具有可信度。尽管这些问题长期以来一直受到学术界的关注，但它们从未成为单一期刊和专家评审的焦点。我们期待着将《兴趣集团与倡导》确立为这一焦点。