Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica is the official journal of the Italian Political Science Association. Established in 1971 by Giovanni Sartori, RISP has greatly contributed to the development of Italian political science and still constitutes its reference, both in Italy and abroad. A journal which matches the highest academic standards, RISP publishes three issues per year. Articles can be submitted in Italian or English, and undergo a strict double-blind peer-review process. Articles published in the RISP typically adopt an empirical approach and engage in exchanges with the international political science community and debates. Contributions are welcome from all the sub-fields of the discipline, including comparative politics, political behaviour, public policy, international relations, political economy.
Editor in chief Luca Verzichelli Editorial board Giliberto Capano, Alessandro Chiaramonte, Vincent Della Sala, Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Donatella Della Porta, Pierangelo Isernia, Francesca Longo, Liborio Mattina Scientific board Filippo Andreatta, Paolo Bellucci, Jean Blondel, Ilvo Diamanti, Giuseppe Di Palma, Umberto Gori, Luigi Graziano, Piero Ignazi, Juan Linz, Renato Mannheimer, Paolo Martelli, Alfio Mastropaolo, Liborio Mattina, Lorenzo Ornaghi, Gianfranco Pasquino, Gian Enrico Rusconi, Giovanna Zincone Editorial staff Marco Almagisti, Tiziana Caponio, Marco Clementi, Annarita Criscitiello, Luigi Curini, Stefano Sacchi, Filippo Tronconi (staff coordinator).
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Contact: Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Siena - risp@sisp.it
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Policies regarding re-use of articles can be found also on Sherpa/Romeo.
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The journal is indexed by Scopus Bibliographic Database, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, Political Science Complete, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Historical Abstracts, Current Abstracts, Periodicals Index Online, Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA), JournalSeek, Essper, Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar.
The journal is rated "A", by the Italian academic research evaluation agency (Anvur), for the scientific area 14 a2 (Scienza politica).
