Launch issue of Political Research Exchange goes live

The new Open Access journal Political Research Exchange, published by the ECPR in association with Routledge Taylor & Francis Open, is now available to read.

PRX is a new journal offering a fully Open Access platform for the advancement of research, innovation and debate across the political sciences. The journal encourages exchange across and beyond the study of politics, welcoming articles that engage those in government, politics, the media, and the economy.

Launch issue now LIVE – includes

• research article by Oliver Daddow, Christopher Gifford & Ben Wellings, The battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the foreign office and the unravelling of British European policy
• research article by Seraphine F. Maerz, Simulating pluralism: the language of democracy in hegemonic authoritarianism
• research article by Marcel Lewandowsky, Policy congruence and strategic loyalty: which parties nominate candidates dissatisfied with democracy? Evidence from 11 European countries
• research note by Juraj Medzihorsky, Rethinking the D'Hondt method

In their launch issue editorial, Editors-in-Chief Alexandra Segerberg and Simona Guerra talk about the changes in academic publishing that inspired the journal's formation, and put forward their vision for PRX's ongoing development.

Would you like to publish in PRX?

All articles submitted for publication will be subject to triple-blind external peer review. Visit PRX for information on how to submit, and to sign up to new content alerts.

To ensure the availability of high quality research irrespective of funding, the ECPR has pledged to subsidise the author-side publication costs often associated with Open Access, waiving all Article Publishing Charges until the end of 2019.