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You’re attending American Political Science Association because you have results to share. But what’s the best way to reach the widest appropriate audience? The Springer and Palgrave Macmillan editors who are here can help answer that question. You can take the opportunity to meet with Niko, Kelly, Lorraine and Christian. If you haven’t written a book before, they can give you a quick introduction to the process. And if you have, they can show you how publishing a book with Springer and Palgrave Macmillan would be different from other publishers. They can also help answer any questions you might have about Springer and Palgrave Macmillan journals.
Niko Chtouris
Senior Editor, Books
Economics, Political Science, and Public Administration
Springer, Heidelberg, DE
Kelly Daugherty
Senior Publisher, Journals
Business, Economics and Statistics
Springer, New York, US
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Senior Editor, Books
Economics, Political Science, and Public Administration
Springer, New York, US
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Editor, Books
Politics
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, US
Publishing with Springer Nature
Every kind of article or book you might write can find its home here, including in fully OA books and journals. So you can see for yourself, Niko, Kelly, Lorraine and Christian have hand-chosen examples that demonstrate the quality, breadth, and depth of what we publish; and also how your research might find its place here. If you already have a book idea in mind, you can discuss it directly with an experienced Publishing Editor. Find out what makes publishing your book with Springer Nature different.
The books and journals below illustrate the scope and quality of the research published here.
Books
M. Gayte, B. Chelini-Pont, M. J. Rozell
Catholics and U.S. Politics After the 2024 Elections
Trump Captures the "Swing Vote”
- Analyzes the role of Catholic voters in 2024 US elections
- Explores the evolution and influence of swing voters in US politics
- Provides fresh perspectives to scholars in political science, religious studies, history, and sociology
M. A. Genovese
Presidential Power and Nuclear Arms
A History of Presidents, the Button, and the Bomb
- Accessibly written for classrom use in courses in political science, history, and international relations
- Synthesizes US presidential history of the use of nuclear weapons from Truman to Biden
- Charts the rise of presidential power alongside the proliferation of nuclear arms
R. Koulish, E. Calvo
Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals
How Scoring Algorithms Transformed Anti-Immigrant Sentiments into Policy
- Analyzes immigration detention using risk classification assessment data
- Introduces empirical analysis of immigration detention using Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method
- Shows how the Trump Administration optimized punitive bias in immigration detention
S. Richey
Patriotism and Citizenship
A Contractual Theory of the Impact of Patriotism
- Leverages a nonideological approach to examine possible outcomes from patriotism
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Develops a theory of how collective action can reveal patriotism’s impact on political behavior and public opinion
D. Stockemer, J. Bordeleau
Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
A Practical Introduction with Examples in R
- 2nd revised and extended edition
- Offers an essential introduction to survey research and quantitative methods
- Shows how to conduct empirical tests in R
J. L. Sumner
R for Political Science Research
An Introduction for Absolute Beginners
- Provides an introduction to using R for political science research
- Suitable for students with no programming background
- Teaches both tidyverse and base R for a solid foundation
Journals
Contemporary Political Theory
EiC Terrell Carver, Samuel A. Chambers
- Promotes lively engagement with topics in contemporary global politics
- Spans topics from analytical philosophy to the cultural construction of political theory
- Covers women's and gender studies, cultural studies; literary theory and more
International Politics
EiC Costanza Musu, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Michael J. Williams
- Explores a wide range of perspectives on transnational political issues
- Encourages lively discussion of current controversies in international politics
- Benefits scholars working across the spectrum of academic disciplines
Policy Sciences
EiC Michael Howlett
Integrating Knowledge and Practice to Advance Human Dignity
- Brings an interdisciplinary and international focus to the study of policy
- Welcomes conceptual and empirical innovation
- Addresses the normative aspects of policy sciences, and concrete policy issues, along with analysis, critiques and discussion
Political Behavior
EiC Christopher Karpowitz, Jessica Preece
- Publishes original research on political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies
- Focuses on behavior of individuals, small groups and large organizations
- Integrates a variety of analytical approaches
Public Choice
EiC Peter T. Leeson
- Applies economics to nonmarket social phenomena
- Fosters exchange between economists, political scientists, legal scholars, and sociologists
- Extends economics beyond its traditional domain
Open access
Serving the global research community with openness, rigor, quality, and transparency
Open access (OA) refers to the free, immediate, online availability of research outputs such as journal articles or books, combined with the rights to use these outputs fully in the digital environment. Publishing OA expands the reach of your research, fostering greater impact, visibility and usage of your work. Studies indicate that gold OA articles achieve significantly more downloads, citations, and Altmetric attention than non-OA articles.
You may be able to publish OA, with your fees covered, through one of Springer Nature’s many OA agreements. Alternatively, you can use our free OA funding and support service to find and apply for funding to cover your article processing charges (APCs) and/or book processing charges (BPCs).
Ultimately, serving the research community means research that’s open to all. And the only way to achieve full, immediate, and sustainable OA is by prioritising gold OA.
Below you’ll find a selection of OA books that our editors have chosen as of particular interest for American Political Science Association.
Books
Open Access
D. Caivano
The Necro-President
Trump, MAGA, and the Decline of the American Republic
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Theorizes the figure of the necro-president through the rise of Trump and the cultural logic of MAGA
- Examines how Trump casts himself as a resurrectionist leader, claiming to redeem a republic in decay
Open Access
A. Damonte, F. Negri
Causality in Policy Studies
a Pluralist Toolbox
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Provides a survey of methodological techniques for policy studies
- Takes a realistic theoretical approach to causality
Open Access
F. Gagnon, C. Kirkey, S. Paquin
The Québec-United States Relationship
Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural Dynamics
- Seeks to explore the many ways in which Quebec engages with the USA
- Explores and explains what, when, why and how Québec has chosen to engage the USA while examining fundamental issues
- Examines and emphasizes the background, scope, and impacts of policy decisions
Open Access
D. Katsikas, M. A. Del Tedesco Lins, A. Ribeiro Hoffmann
Finance, Growth and Democracy: Connections and Challenges in Europe and Latin America in the Era of Permacrisis
Democracy, Finance, and Growth
- Takes a comparative regionalism perspective on responses to crises
- Explores digital currencies and fintech’s potential and risks through a regional lens
- Provides a policy oriented critical analysis
Open Access
S. Nate
Ukraine's Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
A Blueprint for Security, Resilience and Development
- Offers a comprehensive presentation of Ukraine's post-war challenges
- Includes evidence-based strategies and policy formulations
- Based on a multidisciplinary approach from political science, economics, and law
Open Access
M. P. Poto, L. Vita
The Ocean Incubator Network Learning Toolkit
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- offers an innovative format
- includes a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach