ABOUT THE JOURNAL !!!!!!!!^^"

Scope
In recent times, the study of France has been changing. Globalisation, Europeanisation, and interdependence have meant that it is less easy to see developments in contemporary France in a purely national context. External factors have intruded on the French political system. In the academic context the trend towards large-scale collaboration in comparative projects has meant an increasing opportunity for bringing France into the mainstream of academic research. Long considered to be an exceptional case, recent scholarship in political science has tended to emphasize the points of comparison between France and other polities. In short, the context of French politics is changing and the study of French politics is changing.

French Politics is designed to reflect these developments. The aim is to produce an international, peer-reviewed journal of the highest quality that will promote the study of contemporary and comparative French politics, policy and society.

The journal will focus on the role of political institutions, political behaviour, public policy, political economy, international relations, public administration and public law as they relate to France. It will particularly encourage and welcome submissions that seek to incorporate the French case into more broad comparative and cross-national analyses, and that use the French case in theory-testing and theory building.

The journal will also seek contributions from a wide variety of methodological perspectives, including institutional analysis (historical, empirical, sociological), behavioural studies (survey data and timeseries analysis), rational choice (including game theory and rational choice institutionalism), political theory, political sociology and post-modern approaches (cultural theory).

Content
The journal will have an original and innovative format. It will include a data section. This section will present key political, economic, and social indicators in tabular form and will allow the subscriber to build up a data bank of information. Data utilised in journal articles for primary analysis will be made available electronically to subscribers for the purposes of replication and verification. In this way, subscribers will not only receive a hard copy of the journal, they will also have pass-worded access to a unique electronic data set.

The journal will contain a book review section. This section will concentrate on review essays that compare recent and classic scholarship on particular aspects of French politics. This will allow readers to obtain a sense of where the discipline stands in particular aspects of French politics.

All papers in French Politics will be in English and will be rigorously peer-reviewed. The journal seeks to encourage contributions from people in a wide range of countries, including the US, the UK and France.