British Politics

期刊简介：British Politics offers the only forum explicitly designed to promote research in British political studies, and seeks to provide a counterweight to the growing fragmentation of this field during recent years. To this end, the journal aims to promote a more holistic understanding of British politics by encouraging a closer integration between theoretical and empirical research, between historical and contemporary analyses, and by fostering a conception of British politics as a broad and multi-disciplinary field of study. This incorporates a range of sub-fields, including psephology, policy analysis, regional studies, comparative politics, institutional analysis, political theory, political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and social policy.While recognising the validity and the importance of research into specific aspects of British politics, the journal takes it to be a guiding principle that such research is more useful, and indeed meaningful, if it is related to the field of British politics in a broader and fuller sense.The scope of the journal will therefore be broad, incorporating a range of research papers and review articles from all theoretical perspectives, and on all aspects of British politics, including policy developments, institutional change and political behaviour. Priority will, however, be given to contributions which link contemporary developments in British politics to theoretical and/or historical analyses. The aim is as much to encourage the development of empirical research that is theoretically rigorous and informed, as it is to encourage the empirical application of theoretical work (or at least to encourage theorists to explicitly signify how their work could be applied in an empirical manner).

【译文】英国政治提供了一个专门设计用于促进英国政治研究领域的论坛，并寻求在近年来这一领域的日益碎片化中提供一种平衡。为此，该期刊旨在通过鼓励理论和实证研究、历史和当代分析之间的更紧密整合，以及培养英国政治作为一个广泛的多学科研究领域观念，来促进对英国政治的更全面理解。这包括一系列子领域，如政治学、政策分析、区域研究、比较政治学、制度分析、政治理论、政治经济学、历史分析、文化研究和社会政策。虽然承认对英国政治特定方面研究的有效性和重要性，但该期刊认为，如果这种研究与更广泛、更全面意义上的英国政治领域相关联，那么它将更有用，甚至更有意义。因此，该期刊的范围将很广，包括来自所有理论视角、涉及英国政治所有方面的研究论文和评论文章，包括政策发展、制度变革和政治行为。然而，将优先考虑将英国政治的当代发展理论与/或历史分析联系起来的贡献。目标是同样鼓励发展理论严谨、信息丰富的实证研究，以及鼓励理论工作的实证应用（或者至少鼓励理论家明确指出他们的工作如何以实证方式应用）。