Dutch Political Science Association

WEBSITE:  http://www.politicologie.nl

The Dutch Political Science Association itself was founded in 1950 as the 'Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek' (literally the 'Dutch Circle for the Science of Politics'). It's members included political science teachers, constitutional lawyers, economists, historians and sociologists, as well as journalists and politicians.

OFFICERS:

Secretary
dr. Peter Castenmiller,
E-mail: info@politicologie.nl


JOURNAL
Acta Politica

The Dutch Association's journal Acta Politica gradually evolved from being a journal by and for Dutch political scientists to acquire the status of a fully refereed journal with a book review section, published (since 1997) wholly in English. Its main objective is to publish outstanding work reflecting research and developments of both a theoretical and empirical nature in all the sub-areas of the discipline, including Dutch and comparative politics, international relations, political theory, public administration and political communication. The journal also aims to maintain its position as the leading forum for publications pertaining to politics in the Netherlands. Dutch politics, considered either in its own right or in a comparative setting (in particular in comparsions with other small countries), remains an extremely interesting topic for study in its various aspects. The choice of a new editorial policy, most notably in the form of the internationalization of the journal, involved the recruitment of an international advisory board (25 members from various European and Northern American universities and from all the fields of political science).

The internationalization of Acta Politica means that the Dutch political science association no longer has a journal in the Dutch language. This is partly compensated for by its participation in Facta, a general social science journal containing information and reports. A recent strategy is to co-operate more closely with Dutch-speaking Belgian political scientists and to encourage Dutch political scientists to submit articles in Dutch to Res Publica, the Belgian journal of political science.