Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
Asian Politics | Comparative Politics | Political Science & International Relations
Call for Papers for Special Issues
The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (AJCP) targets the publication of theoretically or methodologically original articles that articulate conceptual and theoretical perspectives in Comparative Politics, and it welcomes both quantitative and qualitative approaches. AJCP also targets the publication of short research notes that outline on-going research in more specific areas of study.
AJCP is for political scientists all over the world. The core field of the journal is Comparative Politics with the focus on Asia. The journal covers all topics in this field; political behaviour and leadership (e.g., elections, corruption, and consensual versus dictatorial systems); institutions and regime (e.g., executives, legislatives and judiciaries, authoritarianism versus democracy); state-society relations (e.g., weak state and strong society); political culture (e.g., compliance prone versus defiance prone norms); and foreign policy and globalization (e.g., proactive versus reactive diplomacy and permeated versus isolated society). As Asia has a potential as one of the frontiers of comparative studies, it would also help generate new hitherto fore unknown findings in the West.
However, this does not mean that the journal does not accept interdisciplinary approaches bridging the gap between Comparative Politics and other subfields of Political Science. For instance, the journal touches international relations. In an era of deep and wide globalization especially in a dynamic and diverse region called Asia, it is unthinkable for a journal of politics not to deal with international relations and global politics. The journal also seeks to bridge the gap between Political Science and other related fields such as Economics, History, Sociology, Psychology, and Medical Science. It is open to other academic areas and appreciates the benefits that emerge from those original research articles and notes of different academic traditions.
"The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics aims to provide analyses across states, beneath states and beyond states. The Journal goes beyond euro-centric conception of state and state systems without being Asia-centric. It aims to be global-centric in its approach, audience and methods. Only time will tell whether it passes this test. The AJCP will begin with 3 single theme based issues during first 3 Quarters. The first will look across nations and analyze 3 Elections in Asia during 2014-15, in India, Indonesia and Japan. The second issue will look beneath nations to explore how domestic debates among sub-national groups influence foreign affairs and regional relations. The focus will be on China and its neighbors in East Asia. The third issue will look beyond nations at how global 'Regimes' are setting rules and developing enforcement norms and instruments, thus creating a new space of Governance which confounds the state-centric sovereignty of the 20th century. Welcome to the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, providing comparisons across states beneath states and beyond states." -Ijaz Shafi Gilani, Chairman, Gallup Pakistan, Pakistan.
“The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics promises to become a vibrant meeting place for important comparative scholarship addressing issues central to the 21st century. Scholars take note!” Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University and former President of the American Political Science Association.
“Asia is the largest continent in the world, with the largest population (more than 4.4 billion people (60% of the world population). It is the fastest growing economic region and the largest continental economy by GDP PPP in the world. It has several of the world's oldest continuous literate civilizations, boasts a series of economic "miracles" and five of the world's nuclear powers. Political science has done much to inform our understanding of this diverse continent, but comparative political analysis has hitherto been relatively neglected. The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, edited by Inoguchi Takashi, is thus certain to make a most valuable contribution.” Lowell Dittmer, Professor of Political Science and editor, Asian Survey, University of California, Berkeley.
“I am an admirer of Takashi Inoguchi. I am confident that under his leadership, the new Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, will be a great success.” Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Republic of Singapore.
Published under the auspices of the Asian Consortium for Political Research (ACPR) and AJCP is partly financially supported by the Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (Grant in Aid for Publication of Science Research Results, 15HP2025), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is greatly acknowledged.
The Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (AJCP) is a journal of Comparative Politics with the focus on Asia. Despite the enormous transformations of the world into the new millennium in terms of the number and characters of sovereign countries and in terms of deep tide of globalization permeating every part of the globe, the genre of Comparative Politics has often been constrained by the original paradigms which developed largely in the third quarter of the last century like voting behavior, party cleavages, democratization, state strength, and no less importantly primordial emphasis on Western Europe and North America.
The journal covers all topics in this field; political behavior and leadership, institutions and regime, state-society relations, political cultures, foreign policy and globalization.
Published under the auspices of the Asian Consortium for Political Research (ACPR) and AJCP is partly financially supported by the Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (Grant in Aid for Publication of Science Research Results, 15HP2025), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is greatly acknowledged.
| Takashi Inoguchi | J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo |
| Titli Basu | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Zhengxu Wang | Zhejiang University, China |
| Chiyuki Aoi | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Paul Bacon | Waseda University, Japan |
| Bertrand Badie | Science Po, Paris, France |
| Kenneth Benoit | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Thomas Berger | Boston University, USA |
| Tina Burrett | Sophia University, Japan |
| Jie Chen | University of Idaho, USA |
| Yunhan Chu | National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
| Christian Collet | International Christian University, Japan |
| Michael Cox | London School of Economics, UK |
| Kentaro Fukumoto | Gakushuin University, Japan |
| Narayanan Ganesan | Hiroshima City University, Japan |
| Daniella Giannetti | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Terence Gomez | University of Malaya, Malaysia |
| Peter Hays Gries | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Baogang He | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Ludger Helms | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Yee Kuang Heng | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Yusaku Horiuchi | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Christian Houle | Michigan State Universtiy, USA |
| Michael Hsiao | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| Keisuke Iida | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| G. John Ikenberry | Princeton University, USA |
| Kosuke Imai | Harvard University, USA |
| Turtogtokh Janar | National University of Mongolia, Mongolia |
| Qingguo Jia | Peking University, China |
| Rieko Kage | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Won-Taek Kang | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Yuko Kasuya | Japan |
| Gregory Kasza | Indiana University Bloomington, United States, USA |
| Junko Kato | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Sanjay Kumar | Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi |
| Shuhei Kurizaki | Waseda University, Japan |
| Jongryn Mo | Yonsei University, South Korea |
| Chung-In Moon | Yonsei University, South Korea |
| Cheol Hee Park | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Simona Piattoni | Italy |
| Juliet Pietsch | Australian National University, Australia |
| Thitinan Pongsudirak | Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee | Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| Tomohito Shinoda | International University of Japan, Japan |
| Rizal Sukma | Center for International/Strategic Studies, Indonesia |
| Xuefeng Sun | Tsinghua University, China |
| Julio Teehankee | De La Salle University |
| Luca Verzichelli | University of Siena, Italy |
| Zhengxu Wang | Nottingham University, UK |
| Paul Whiteley | University of Essex, UK |
| Mathew Yee Hang Wong | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Xuetong Yan | Tsinghua University, China |
| Ching-hsin Yu | National Chengchi University, Taiwan |
| Wang Gungwu | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Ashis Nandy | Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India |
| Ezra Vogel | Harvard University, USA |
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