ABOUT THE JOURNAL

European Journal of Social Sciences is an international peer-reviewed academic research journal, which has a particular interest in policy-relevant questions and interdisciplinary approaches. The journal serves as a forum for review, reflection and discussion informed by the results of recent and ongoing research. It adopts a broad-ranging view of social studies, charting new questions and new research, and mapping the transformation of social studies in the years to come. The principal purpose of European Journal of Social Sciences is to publish scholarly work in the social sciences defined in the classical sense that is in the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences. The research that is published may take a theoretical or speculative model as well as statistical and mathematical. Contributions are welcome from all fields which have relevant and insightful comments to make about the social sciences. 

European Journal of Social Sciences also aims at providing a unique forum for discussing the fundamental challenges for policy, politics, citizenship, culture and democracy that European integration and enlargement pose. The journal emphasizes the publication of work that engages with issues of major public interest and concern across the world, and highlights the implications of that work for policy and professional practice. It particularly welcomes articles on all aspects of European developments that contribute to the improvement of social science knowledge and to the setting of a policy-focused European research agenda. Examples of typical subject areas covered include: Policy-Making and Agenda-Setting; Multilevel Governance; The Role of Institutions Democracy and Civil Society; Social Structures and Integration; Sustainability and Ecological Modernization; Science, Research, Technology and Society; Scenarios and Strategic Planning; and Public Policy Analysis. European Journal of Social Sciences is interdisciplinary bringing together articles from a textual, philosophical, and social scientific background, as well as from cultural studies. 

The journal provides a forum for disseminating and enhancing theoretical, empirical and/or pragmatic research across the social sciences and related disciplines. It engages in critical discussions concerning gender, class, sexual preference, ethnicity and other macro or micro sites of political struggle. Other major topics of emphasis are Anthropology, Business and Management, Economics, Education, Environmental Sciences, European Studies, Geography, Government Policy, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Welfare, Sociology, Statistics, Women's Studies. However, researches in all social science fields are welcome.