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Announcing Expansion of PSN Political Economy: Development eJournal
We are pleased to announce the expansion of Political Science Network (PSN) Political Economy: Development eJournal into the following eJournals:
POLITICAL ECONOMY - DEVELOPMENT: COMPARATIVE REGIONAL
ECONOMIES eJOURNAL
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Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics on comparative regional economies as they relate to development. Papers in this eJournal deal with comparing developing economies that have not been addressed under the other development eJournals and topics, or papers that touch on multiple topics across multiple eJournals. Topics include Central & South America, Africa, Europe & Eurasia, Asia & South East Asia, Far East & Pacific, and North America.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and domestic development strategies. Topics included in this eJournal are rural & agricultural development, urban development & urbanization, trade policy, economic growth, science & technology, infrastructure & communication, or political reform.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and environment in the developing world. The topics in this eJournal include research on the environmental consequences of development, including, but not limited to: the impact of global warming and climate change, the effects and costs of deforestation, sustainable development, the use and extraction of natural resources, renewable energy and resources, responses to natural disasters, environmental regulation, and environmental migration.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and fiscal/monetary policy in the developing world. Papers might include studies of debt levels, interest rates, central banking & reserves, taxation, public spending, responses to fiscal crisis, budgeting, or other papers that discuss the making and execution of fiscal & monetary policy in the developing world.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and health in the developing world. Topics in this eJournal address disease & illness, child mortality rates, population & family planning, access to health care, prescription drugs & antibiotics, and hunger. Papers may deal with describing these topics, efforts by the international community to address those problems, as well as the efficacy of such efforts.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of politics and the efforts and strategies to aid development by international actors. Papers in this eJournal will examine how international actors participate in, influence, and act with the goal of aiding underdeveloped areas. Papers may discuss a range of topics including, but not limited to: foreign aid, foreign direct investment, the development activities of the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, activities by the UN, micro-loans, or other international development organizations.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the interaction of development and political institutions. There are numerous theories about the type of political institutions that help to spur or hinder development, and topics in this eJournal all deal with those relationships. Research might fall under the following topics as they relate to development: the type of regime, financial institutions or arrangements, cultural institutions, constitutional organization and design, political institutions (political parties, elections, etc), as well as other papers related to how political institutions relate to development.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing topics related to the intersection of politics and public service delivery in the developing world. Topics in this eJournal include the delivery of health care, energy, clean water, education, infrastructure, sanitation, security and safety, as well as papers that examine public administration in developing nations.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts discussing the interaction of underdevelopment and poverty in the developing world. Papers might discuss why poverty or underdevelopment is a persistent problem in the developing world; the resource curse, or how natural resources can impinge development. Research might also include how culture and underdevelopment are related, how poverty can become a trap, the relationship between industrialized and non-industrialized nations (North/South relations), or how conflict could hinder development, as well as other work.
Posted 4/8/13