Australian Journal of Political Science

The Australian Journal of Political Science (AusJPS) is the refereed journal of the Australian Political Studies Association.

Founded in 1966, and known until 1990 as Politics, it is the premier political science journal in Australia. The AusJPS has a strong international reputation, indicated by its position in the citation indices, as one of the world’s leading political science journals.

Since 2005 the Australian Journal of Political Science has been published four times a year, in March, June, September and December. The publishers are Taylor & Francis and the submission and review of manuscripts is handled online via Scholar One. The current editorial team is led by Professor Michael Mintrom of Monash University, with the other editorial team members being Dr Matteo Bonotti, Dr Zareh Ghazarian, Dr Narelle Miragliotta, Dr Ben Wellings, and Dr Blair Williams.

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Former Journal Editors

Vol/No	Dates	Editor(s)
1 (1)	1966	Interim Advisory Board
1 (2) to 4 (1)	1966–69	D. McCallum, P. D. Marchant
4 (2) to 6 (1)	1969–71	Henry Mayer, Owen Harries
6 (2) to 11 (1)	1971–76	Henry Mayer
11 (2) to 16 (2)	1976–81	Dean Jaensch
17 (1) to 22 (1)	1982–87	Patrick Weller
22 (2) to 25 (1)	1987–90	Marian Simms
25 (2) to 30 (3)	1990–95	Ian McAllister
31 (1) to 34 (3)	1996–99	John Dryzek, Brian Galligan, Philomena Murray
35 (1) to 40 (2)	2000–05	Andrew Parkin
40 (3) to 40 (4)	2005	Rachael Gibson, Ian McAllister
41 (1) to 45 (4)	2006–10	Ian McAllister
46 (1) to 51 (4)	2011–16	Geoffrey Stokes and Marian Simms with Deakin editorial team
52 (1) to 55 (4)	2017–2020	Renee Jeffery with Griffith University editorial team
56 (1) to 58 (4)	2021–2024	Anika Gauja with Nicole Curato, Richard Frank and Rob Manwaring
59 (1) to current	2025	Michael Mintrom with Matteo Bonotti, Zareh Ghazarian, Narelle Miragliotta, Ben Willings, Blair Williams