Journal of Politics in Latin America
Latin American Politics | Latin American Studies | Politics of Developing Countries
New to SAGE in 2019.
- Rigorous peer review of your research
- Prompt publishing
- Multidisciplinary audience
- High visibility for global exposure
- Platinum Open Access journal, with no APCs
Journal of Politics in Latin America is a peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on current political developments in Latin America. We accept submissions with a focus on international relations and the social, economic, legal, etc. dimensions of policies and politics. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
This journal is published on behalf of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submission information
Visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpla to upload your manuscript.
Open access article processing charge (APC) information
This journal is financially supported by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and therefore does not charge an article processing charge for open access publication.
Contact
Please direct any queries to Valentina Alvarez Wolff.
Standard license
The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons (CC BY), and it is recommended this is the license which is selected. This allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced.
JPLA is a peer reviewed, open access journal focused on comparative politics on Latin America. Published by the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) in Hamburg, the journal is dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of the political process and political institutions in the region.
JPLA provides cutting-edge research by and for the political science community in Latin American studies as well as for comparativists focusing on Latin America.
JPLA is open to all research approaches consistent with the canons of scholarship and publishes rigorous and original research findings and also includes research-oriented matters (e.g. debates in the discipline, research notes, political science information sources, funding opportunities) and information for politicians, policy makers, the media, and the public. JPLA seeks to provide a prime forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars and students of comparative politics in Latin America. The journal is committed to developing the most promising new work available and to facilitating professional communication in political science on Latin America.
JPLA, has a clear focus on scholarly work on political institutions, political behavior, and public policy, and is a natural first choice venue for the political science community working on Latin America, as represented for instance by the LASA Section on Political Institutions or the ECPR Standing Group on Latin American Politics.
| Rossana Castiglioni | Universidad Diego Portales, Chile |
| Mariana Llanos | German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany |
| Valentina Álvarez | German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany |
| Merike Blofield | GIGA and University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Claudio A. Fuentes | Universidad Diego Portales, Chile |
| Kathryn Hochstetler | London School of Economics, LSE, UK |
| Maritza Paredes | PUCP, Peru |
| Aníbal Pérez-Liñán | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Timothy Power | University of Oxford, UK |
| Fabiano Santos | IESP, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Kurt Weyland | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Barry Ames | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| George Avelino Filho | Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Benedicte Bull | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Jacint Jordana Casajuana | IBEI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
| Argelina Cheibub Figuereido | IESP, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| Carolina Curvale | FLACSO, Ecuador |
| Jennifer Cyr | University Torcuato di Tella, Argentina |
| Jordi Díez | University of Guelph |
| Ezquiel González-Ocantos | University of Oxford, UK |
| Jonathan Hartlyn | University of North Carolina, USA |
| Evelyne Huber | University of North Carolina, USA |
| Scott Mainwaring | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Juliana Martinez | Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica |
| Paula Muñoz | Universidad del Pacífico, Peru |
| Ana María Mustapic | Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina |
| Jennifer Pribble | University of Richmond, USA |
| Adam Przeworski | New York University, USA |
| Angelika Rettberg | Universidad De Los Andes, Colombia |
| Andreas Schedler | Central European University, Austria |
| Philippe Schmitter | European University Institute, Italy |
| Julieta Suárez Cao | Universidad Católica, Chile |
| Mario Sznajder | Hebrew University, Israel |
| Michelle Taylor-Robinson | Texas A&M University, College Station, USA |
| Mariano Torcal | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
| Leslie Wehner | University of Bath, UK |
| Yanina Welp | Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland |
| Laurence Whitehead | University of Oxford, UK |
| Bruce Wilson | University of Central Florida, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.