Call for Papers: JPoX – Journal on Political Excellence

Politics is far from being excellent: backlog of reforms, rampant bureaucracies, disenchantment with politics, and lack of input and output legitimacy. The western democracies are facing ever emerging challenges on the way to optimize the political organisation of their societies. The electronic journal JPoX will provide a platform for scholars from all disciplines, for political practitioners as well as for actors from civil society – a platform that serves the purpose of fostering a discourse on Political Excellence.
Political Excellence is rather a process than a fixed state. In that sense, excellence is the continuous strive for the better. What does Political Excellence mean then? It is all about continuously observing and reflecting the political system in order to create new forms of the system. Hence, the concept is applicable to all political systems, not only to established democracies. Political Excellence is about improving political systems!
The basic prerequisite for publishable papers is that the copyrights for the text are held by the author. Furthermore, they shall address the question of what political excellence is.

Format
Contrary to what is standard in most social science journals, these papers do not have to be definitive in their results, but rather inspire or provoke debate. They should not exceed 2500 words. The text should be in: Times New Roman; 11pt; one-and-a-half line spacing; justified.

Format specifications
Hand in your text as a simple word document (.doc). Papers should contain the following

• name of the author and a few lines to your background
• a catchy title and subtitle of the paper
• an abstract of about 150 words
• a list of bibliographical references
• pictures, graphs etc. attached
• select up to five keywords (you will receive a list with a given set of words)

Referencing
The contributors to JPoX should make use of the Harvard referencing system. According to this, by reference to literature, a brief citation is written in the text in parentheses. Here the author’s surname, year of publication and eventually page number is written, e.g. (Habermas 2003: 13) or (Habermas 2003). The full reference appears in a bibliography in the end as: Habermas, Jürgen (2003). The Future of Human Nature. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Papers should be sent to: submit(at)JPoX.eu