A Short History of JPS
The Journal of Policy Studies (JPS) is a scholarly journal quarterly published by Graduate school of Public Administration (GSPA) at Seoul National University (SNU). JPS is a SCOPUS and KCI indexed journal, accredited by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and has been a premier journal in the field of public policy and administration research, theory, and practice for more than 30 years. The GSPA is among the most prestigious schools in public administration and public policy in Asia and SNU a top-ranked university globally (11 in the 2021 QS World University Ranking). An interdisciplinary journal, JPS engages with a range of policy and administrative topics about the public policy process, government regulations, governance, and development issues around the world. The journal welcomes insights drawn from a variety of academic perspectives that range from political science, to economics, to sociology, and other administrative sciences.
Aims and Scope
JPS seeks original research that provides rigorous empirical analyses of public policy and administration questions, as well as research that makes innovative contributions to comparative policy. Crucially, JPS aims to serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners for research on developmental administration and for scholarship addressing issues of particular importance to nations that have historically been underrepresented in the global academic community. Our hope is that in doing so, JPS aims to contribute toward a more inclusive, representative, and comprehensive understanding of public policy and administration.
JPS welcomes a broad range of interdisciplinary research on topics ranging from administration reform, to policy innovation, to governance, and development issues around the world as well as interdisciplinary academic perspectives and outlooks from political science, economics, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and other administrative sciences. It seeks manuscripts of the highest caliber that address important research questions using rigorous empirical analyses.
