Making your marks in Social Sciences Getting published
Making your marks in Social Sciences: Getting published in top‐ranking journals Flinders University 29 March 2019 JCMS Annick Masselot Professor of Law, University of Canterbury, NZ Annick. masselot@canterbury. ac. nz
• Peer‐reviewed research on Europe and comparative regional studies. • Multidisciplinary • Welcomes a plurality of methodological and theoretical approaches within the social sciences especially, international relations, political economy, economics, law and sociology. • UACES
2 types of articles from scholars at any stage of their careers • Research Articles are articles between 6500 and 8500 words that present original work. • Research Notes are shorter between 3000 and 5000 word (inclusive of footnotes, appendices, references and figures, tables or charts) that seek to advance new ideas, research programmes or methodological approaches or explore the implications of new datasets within the boundaries the journal’s remit. • Book review • Annual review
• Acceptance is 18%. • Desk rejection 50%. • Submissions about 500
Foreground Liberalism, Background Nationalism: A Discursive‐institutionalist Account of EU Leverage and ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in East Central Europe James Dawson and Seán Hanley First published: 15 March 2019 https: //doi. org/10. 1111/jcms. 12845 Abstract This article argues for a fresh approach to debates on democratic backsliding and European Union (EU) influence in East Central Europe (ECE), drawing on the discursive institutionalism of Vivien Schmidt. Underlying assumptions about backsliding in CEE largely reflect a set of ideas derived from the rational institutionalist and historical institutionalist schools. Moreover, the same theoretical assumptions were previously deployed to explain the apparent success of democratization and EU leverage in CEE. A discursive institutionalism perspective, stressing the role of actors and their discourses in making and unmaking institutions, suggests that democracy in CEE was always less secure than assumed. It also highlights the key role of liberal mainstream parties in embodying democratic institutions. Case studies of the liberal centre‐right in Bulgaria and social democrats in the Czech Republic highlight the way background ideas of ethnically exclusive titular states have increasingly impinged on foreground ideas of liberal pluralism.
The Crisisification of Policy‐making in the European Union Mark Rhinard First published: 03 February 2019 ttps: //doi. org/10. 1111/jcms. 12838 Abstract In recent years a subtle change has taken place in the policy‐making machinery shaping European integration. The traditional methods for producing collective European Union (EU) policies, typified by the extensive analysis of a problem, extended phases of consultation with stakeholders, the deliberate cultivation of support for proposals, occasional decision‐making moments and their long‐term implementation, now share space with what is best described as crisis‐oriented methods for arriving at collective decisions. These methods prioritize the early identification of the next crisis, specific kinds of actors and technologies, abbreviated decision‐making procedures and new narratives on the raison d'etre of European integration. This article treats this development as a kind of crisisification of EU policy‐making – a change in the processes by which collective decisions are made – and explores its implications for practice and research by drawing on both classical EU studies approaches and insights from critical security studies.
Praying on Brexit? Unpicking the Effect of Religion on Support for European Union Integration and Membership Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Stuart Fox First published: 10 January 2019 https: //doi. org/10. 1111/jcms. 12836 Abstract This article examines how religious affiliation shapes support for European Union membership. While previous research has shown that Protestants are typically more eurosceptic than Catholics, little is known about the nature of this relationship: specifically, whether religion affects one's utilitarian assessments of the costs and benefits of membership, or one's affective attachment to the EU. Using the 2016 British Election Study Referendum Panel, this article shows that religious affiliation influences both sets of attitudes, suggesting that the values and shared history associated with one's religion shapes how a voter perceives the performance of the EU in delivering its policy objectives, and its operation as a legitimate institution. Moreover, some findings from previous research are challenged: Protestants are not as unified in their scepticism of the EU as is widely assumed, and the positive relationship between Catholicism and support for EU integration is not apparent in the UK.
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