New Journal - American Political Thought

The University of Chicago Press, the University of Notre Dame's Program in Constitutional Studies, and the Jack Miller Center are pleased to announce the launch of the only peer-reviewed academic journal exclusively devoted to the study of American political thought. American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture is now accepting submissions and will publish its inaugural issue in spring 2012. The new journal will feature research by political scientists, historians, literary scholars, economists, and philosophers who study the texts, authors, and ideas at the foundation of the American political tradition. Research will explore key political concepts such as democracy, constitutionalism, equality, liberty, citizenship, political identity, and the role of the state. APT will publish twice a year in print and online, and will include book reviews along with major articles accepted through a double blind peer-review process.

The journal is now accepting submissions on all areas of relevance including:

• Description, justification, and criticism of the institutions of constitutional democracy in the United States.
• The plurality of first principles called upon to ground these institutions and to orient political action.
• The mentality of the American people, either taken as a whole or as members of various subcultures within the polity.
• Political literature, which has sought to bring political principles to full, imaginative life.
• The ideas around which have been built the platforms of the various political parties in American political history and around which coalesce partisan coalitions today.
• The character of the United States as it presents itself on the world stage and thus in the eyes of those who live abroad.

Information:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/apt
http://apt.edmgr.com/