American Political Science Review

The American Political Science Review is the flagship journal of the American Political Science Association, publishing original research that advances the understanding of political institutions, behavior, and ideas across all subfields of political science.《美国政治学评论》（The American Political Science Review）是美国政治学会旗舰刊，发表政治学全部子领域中增进对政治制度、行为与思想理解的原创研究。

Scope

The journal's stated aim is to publish original research bearing on politics and political life, with its official scope covering:刊物官方宗旨为发表涉及政治与政治生活的原创研究，官方声明的征稿范围包括：

• Political institutions and governance: research on the design, operation, and consequences of political institutions, including legislatures, executives, courts, bureaucracies, and the rules and procedures that structure political decision-making.政治制度与治理： 政治制度的设计、运行与后果研究，涵盖立法、行政、司法、官僚机构以及构建政治决策的规则与程序等。
• Political behavior: studies of political participation, public opinion, voting, elections, political psychology, political identity, and the attitudes and actions of citizens and elites.政治行为： 政治参与、民意、投票、选举、政治心理学、政治身份认同以及公民与精英态度行为等方向的研究。
• Political theory: work on normative political theory, the history of political thought, democratic theory, justice, rights, and the conceptual foundations of political life.政治理论： 规范政治理论、政治思想史、民主理论、正义、权利以及政治生活概念基础等方向的研究。
• International politics and comparative politics: research on international relations, conflict and cooperation, international political economy, comparative political systems, democratization, and the politics of countries and regions across the world.国际政治与比较政治： 国际关系、冲突与合作、国际政治经济、比较政治制度、民主化以及世界各国各地区政治等方向的研究。
• Methods and interdisciplinary work: methodological advances in political science, including quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods, and interdisciplinary work drawing on economics, sociology, history, psychology, and other disciplines where it bears on political phenomena.方法与跨学科研究： 政治学方法的前沿进展，涵盖定量、定性与形式化方法，以及借助经济学、社会学、历史学、心理学等学科研究政治现象的跨学科工作。
• Article types: original research articles and review essays, with the journal seeking work that makes a substantial and original contribution to political science as a whole rather than to a single subfield alone.栏目设置： 接受原创研究论文与综述文章，刊物追求对整个政治学学科而非单一子领域有实质原创贡献的工作。

History

• Founding: the journal was founded in 1906, four years after the establishment of the American Political Science Association, making it one of the oldest continuously published political science journals in the world.创刊： 该刊 1906 年创刊，即美国政治学会成立四年后，是世界上持续出版历史最悠久的政治学期刊之一。
• Early managing editors: the journal's first three managing editors were Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John A. Fairlie, and Frederick A. Ogg, each of whom shaped the journal's early mission of publishing research bearing broadly on political life.早期执行编辑： 该刊最早的三位执行编辑为韦斯特尔·伍德伯里·威洛比、约翰·费尔利与弗雷德里克·奥格，他们各自塑造了刊物早期发表广泛涉及政治生活研究的使命。
• APSA flagship: throughout its history the journal has been the official journal of the American Political Science Association and is widely regarded as the discipline's leading general-interest journal.APSA 旗舰刊： 在整个历史中该刊一直是美国政治学会的官方期刊，被广泛视为该学科首屈一指的综合期刊。
• Editorial succession: the journal has historically been led by a single editor or a co-editorial team appointed by the association. The 2020 to 2024 editorial term was staffed by a large team of twelve editors, after which the journal returned to a smaller co-editorial model.编辑传承： 该刊历史上由学会任命的一位主编或联合编辑团队领导。2020 至 2024 年编辑任期由十二人组成的大型编辑团队运作，之后刊物回归规模较小的联合编辑模式。

Editors

The journal is led by a co-editorial team appointed by the American Political Science Association:该刊由美国政治学会任命的联合编辑团队领导：

• Co-editors: John Gerring, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research focuses on comparative politics, political methodology, and social science methodology, and Monika Nalepa, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, whose work concerns transitional justice, legislative politics, and post-communist Europe.联合主编： 约翰·格林（John Gerring），得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校政府学教授，研究方向为比较政治、政治方法学与社会科学方法学；莫妮卡·纳莱帕（Monika Nalepa），芝加哥大学政治学教授，研究方向为过渡司法、立法政治与后共产主义欧洲。
• Associate editors: associate editors are drawn from across the subfields of political science and are responsible for overseeing the review of manuscripts within their areas of expertise.副编辑团队： 副编辑来自政治学各子领域，负责监督其专长范围内稿件的评审。
• Review model: manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by external experts, with final decisions made by the co-editors based on reviewer reports and the contribution of the work to political science as a whole.评审模式： 稿件由外部专家进行双盲同行评审，联合主编基于评审报告与稿件对整体政治学的贡献做出最终决定。