The Journal of Political Ideologies is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and to investigating the nature and roles of particular ideological manifestations and practices. The Journal of Political Ideologies serves as a major discipline-developing vehicle for an innovative, growing and vital field in political studies. It is open to exploring new methodologies that illuminate the complexity and richness of ideological structures and solutions both formed by and forming political thinking and political imagination. Concurrently, the Journal of Political Ideologies supports a broad research agenda aimed at building inter-disciplinary bridges with relevant areas and invigorating cross-disciplinary debate.
Political ideologies are indispensable to appreciating the role of political thought within social, temporal and spatial contexts, both at conscious and unconscious levels. The Journal of Political Ideologies examines ideologies in all their modes, from elite articulations to expressions of vernacular understandings. In parallel it emphasizes that political action, processes and institutions are endowed with ideological import and shaped to a considerable extent by political ideologies.
The indeterminacy of the notion of ideology is recognized in a number of ways. It is concerned with attempts to control political language and discourse, with epistemological issues of truth, distortion and dissimulation, and with sociological phenomena of power, dominance and exploitation. All those also encompass functional questions denoting action-oriented political thinking. Significant attention is also devoted to analyzing ideologies in terms of their actual histories, their comparative geographical and cultural expression, their non-verbal manifestations, and the idea-patterns of particular ideological variants and ideological traditions. The changing forms of ideologies in the 21st century constitute a further focus.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to blind peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
