- ISSN: 0898-0306 (Print), 1528-4190 (Online)
- Editors: Donald T. Critchlow Arizona State University and David B. Robertson University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Editorial board
The Journal of Policy History is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies. While seeking to inform scholars interested in policy history, the journal also seeks to inform policy makers through a historical approach to public policy. Its authors, considering public policy primarily in the United States though also in other nations, focus on policy origins and development through historical inquiry, historical analysis of specific policy areas and policy institutions, explorations of continuities and shifts in policy over time, interdisciplinary research into public policy, and comparative historical approaches to the development of public policy.
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Politics blog
- ‘Operation elections’: voting, nationhood and citizenship in late-colonial Africa
- 31 July 2018,
- This blog accompanies the Historical Journal article Voting, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Late-Colonial Africa by Justin Willis, Gabrielle Lynch and Nic Cheeseman.…...
- The Great Keyishian Case: lessons in academic freedom from the Cold War
- 27 July 2018,
- When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about...
- Left to Right: How Labor Market Policies affect Support for Right-Wing Populists
- 30 October 2018,
- Much recent popular attention and research has been devoted to economic sources of individual support for right-wing populists. While there is considerable...