Journal of Policy History
Published by Cambridge University Press, the Journal of Policy History is an interdisciplinary academic journal concerned with the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies. While seeking to inform scholars interested in policy history, the journal also seeks to inform policy makers through a historical approach to public policy. Authors focus on policy origins and development through historical inquiry, historical analysis of specific policy areas and policy institutions, explorations of continuities and shifts in policy over time, interdisciplinary research into public policy, and comparative historical approaches to the development of public policy.
Submissions
We hope you will consider the Journal of Policy History for publishing your scholarly examinations of the history of public policy and political history.
The JPH uses an automated submission process called ScholarOne. This online system manages and tracks manuscripts through the process from submission, through review, to final decision. You may submit your manuscript and accompanying materials through the link on this page or through Cambridge Journals Online. The link below will take you to the ScholarOne site where authors will establish a login and password. They will then upload their submission materials to the site.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced, and should generally not exceed 8,000 words not including notes. Citations should appear as endnotes following The Chicago Manual of Style format for the humanities. All submissions must contain the following as prompted by the ScholarOne system:
- A cover letter introducing the submission.
- A copy of the manuscript.
- A separate title page which lists author's name, position, organization, department, and contact information (address, email, phone number).
- A biographical sketch not exceeding 50 words which will be published with the article if accepted.
- An abstract summarizing the submission not exceeding 150 words.
- A short list of keywords (five to ten)-These can be listed on the title page.
- If you have an ORCID iD, include it and we will list it on the Contributors page.
Manuscripts will be reviewed anonymously by scholars with expertise in the manuscript’s subject matter; authors' names should appear only on the title page.
If you have any questions you may contact us at jpolhist@asu.edu or send correspondence to:
Managing Editor
Journal of Policy History
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 872902
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2902
Editorial Team
Editors
- Donald T. Critchlow, Arizona State University
- James Strickland, Arizona State University
Editorial Board
- Paula Baker, The Ohio State University (History)
- Brian Balogh, University of Virginia (History)
- Richard Bensel, Cornell University (Government)
- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara (Feminist Studies)
- W. Elliot Brownlee, University of California, Santa Barbara (History)
- Vincent Cannato, University of Massachusetts, Boston (History)
- Christy Ford Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (History)
- Daniel DiSalvo, City University of New York (Political Science)
- Richard R. John, Columbia University (Journalism/History)
- Ira Katznelson, Columbia University (Political Science)
- Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan (History)
- Christopher Loss, Vanderbilt University (History)
- Paul Milazzo, Ohio University (History)
- Jennifer Bloch Rubin, University of Chicago (Political Science)
- Laura Phillips Sawyer, University of Georgia (History/Law)
- Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Political Science)
- Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas, Austin (Government)
- Ann-Marie Szymanski, University of Oklahoma (Political Science)
- Regina Wagner, Universiity of Alabama (Political Science)
- Alan Ware, Oxford University (Politics)
Current Issues
For access to this and previous issues visit Cambridge University Press
Volume 35, Number 3 (Summer 2023)
Articles:
JAMES STRICKLAND
Legislators, Lobbyists, and Symbolic Lobby Laws: "A Nuisance and Embarrassment"
ELIZABETH REMICK
Gender and Disability in U.S. Temporary Disability Systems
DANIEL SLEDGE
Policy Escalation: Richard Nixon, Welfare Reform, and the Development of a Comprehensive Approach to Health Insurance
DENNIE OUDE NUHUIS
Christian Democracy, Labor, and the Postwar Politics of Old Age Pension Reform
Critical Perspective:
ADAM M. McMAHON and BRIAN J. CONSTANTINE
Diplomatic Security Failure in Benghazi, Libya, September 11, 2012
Volume 35, Number 4 (Autumn 2023)
Articles:
JONATHAN BARTH
"Liberty of Conscience is Every Man's Natural Right" : Historical Background of the First Amendment
TERRI DIANE HALPERIN
A Republic Goes to War: Federalists, Republicans, and Foreign Influence
ADRIAN BRETTLE
Free Speech in the Civil War
PAULA BAKER
The Abuse of Civil Liberties in World War I
GEOFFREY R. STONE
Free Speech and World War II
WILLIAM G. MONTGOMERY
Free Speech Viet Nam through the War on Terror