''Quarterly Journal of Political Science'' is a quarterly

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which began in 2006. It is published by Now Publishers Inc. and focuses on positive

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and contemporary political economy. The journal's joint

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are Scott Ashworth and Anthony Fowler (

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), and Joshua D. Clinton (

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Abstracting and indexing

According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 1.645, ranking it 33rd out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science".

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