Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

PACO is an Italian/International journal specialized in social and political studies.

It will house research and studies that focus on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in partibcular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action.

Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level.

All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension.

The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.

* Publication in PACO is free of charge *

Starting from 2014, the Journal is published in English, accepting only papers describing original research and studies not published nor currently under review by other journals.

The Editorial Staff will also consider papers written in other languages, but in case of a positive outcome of the peer-review process, the authors will be requested to send an English version of their article. Papers written in a no correct English will be send back to the authors.

PACO is also affiliated to the Centre for Conflict and Partiicpation Studies (CCPS) of the University of Salento.

[PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO è stata registrata come rivista scientifica presso il Tribunale civile e penale di Milano al n. 128 del 28 Febbraio 2007 - PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO has been registered as scientifc journal in Italy, at the Court of Milan, n. 128, February 28, 2007]. Direttore responsabile: Fabio de Nardis

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Special Issue

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Research Notes

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Open Section

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Web Resources

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Special Section

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Outlooks

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Book Reviews

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Symposium

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Review Essays

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Research Articles

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Short Story

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Articoli

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Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to PACO are subject to a rigorous double blind peer review process.

The selection process consists of two stages:

First, papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by at least two members of the Editorial Board who judge their relevance with respect to the editorial policies of the journal. The Editorial Board can judge the articles as non pertinent, non-rigorous and below minimum scientific standards. In this case manuscripts will be simply rejected without going in peer review. If manuscripts are considered pertinent to the journal authors will be sent preliminary comments and suggestions for re-drafting them before sending the papers out for review.

In the second stage of the evaluation process, manuscripts will be sent to at least two anonymous referees that will be selected according to their specific topic, theoretical approach and methodology.

Referees' reports will be sent to the authors also in case of negative assessment.

The reports will be filled using a standardized form in accordance with the standards adopted by leading international journals.

 

Publication Frequency

The Journal is published in three issues per year (March, July and November).

 

Open Access Policy

PACO provides open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the researchers, improve the global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

PACO enabled the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the publication. LOCKSS is open source software developed at Stanford University Library that enables libraries to preserve selected web publications by regularly polling registered publication websites for newly published content and archiving it.

 

List of referees

REFEREES 2021

Aaron Y. Zelin; Alberta Giorgi; Alessandra Lo Piccolo; Alexa Lenz; Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann; Andrews Kenneth; Astrid Gutiérrez; Athina Arampatzi; Beatrice Carella; Ben Clift; Brayden King; Cathy Lisa Schneider; Cesar Guzman-Concha; Chiara Bertone; Clifford Welch; Daniela Chironi; David Bailey; David Meyer; David Snow; Davide Vittori; Deepak K. Mishra; Detlef Nolte; Dorte Sophie Fischer; Eduardo Romanos; Elena Pavan; Emma Mateo; Enrico Padoan; Lisa Zanotti; Erik Neveu; Ester Sigillo; Francis O’Connor; Gerry Strange; Gianluca Passarelli; Giorgio Venizelos; Hans Prujit; Henning Schmidtke; Hiu-Fung Chung; Jacopo Custodi; James Fitzgerald; Javier Martínez-Cantó; João Miguel de Carvalho ; Joost de Moore; Karim Zakhour; Katerina Vrablikova; Katrin Uba; Larissa Meier; Lasse Thomassen; Leonidas Oikonomakis; Lesley Wood; Leticia Cesarino; Lorenzo Zamponi; Lucile Quéré; Luwei Rose Luqiu; Mangala Subramaniam; Måns Lundestdt; Marco Giugni; Markus Holdo; Milana Nikolk; Myrto Tsakatika; Nicolas Somma; Paolo Chiocchetti; Petr Špelda; Philippe Marlière; Raluca Buturoiu; Raymond Hinnebusch; Rossella Ciccia; Rune Ellefsen; Ruud Wouters; Sam Handlin; Samson Opondo; Sebastián Mauro; Simone Tulumello; Sofia Tipaldou; Sofia Ventura; Stella Christou; Sylvain Crépon; Theocharis Malamidis; Tiago Carvalho; Tiago Carvalho; Tommaso Gravante; Cecile Mouly; Paolo Vignolo; Bharath Ganesh; Luigi Ceccarini; Ester Gallo; Bahar Baser; Alessandro Vecchiato; Andrea Fumarola; Andrea Plebani; Ángela Suárez Collado; Annabelle Houdret; Caterina Froio; Chérine Chams El Dine; Chiara Maritato; Cristina Grasseni; Dana Al Kurd; Dina Kiwan; Eva Wegner; Fedra Negri; Felipe Gonzalez Santos; Francesco Cavatorta; Raymond Hinnebusch; Vincent Durac; Fuad Musallam; Giulia Daniele; Giuseppe Ieraci; Harith Hasan; Hendrik Kraetzschmar; Irene Fernandez-Molina; Janne Bjenne Christensen; Justin Glengler; Lucia D’Ambrosi; Marco Giani; Marco Lisi; Mauro Barisione; Matteo Bassoli; Raffaele Bazurli; Jerome Blanc; Pietro Castelli Gattinara; Manuel Finelli; Leila Hadj-Abdou; Niccolo’ Morelli; Irene Pochetti; Emanuele Polizzi; Jonathan Pratschke; Josep Ubalde Buenafuente; Mohammed Masbah; Morten Valbjørn; Nermin Allam; Neve Gordon; Nimer Sultany; Orkideh Behrouzan; Raymond Bush; Rossana Sampugnaro; Rossella Rega; Samir Amghar; Saverio Leopardi; Sharri Plonski; Sonja Zmerli; Stefania Parisi; Stefano Rombi; Thomas Fibiger; Thomas Serres; Valeria Tarditi; Zahra Ali; Jasmine Lorenzini

 

REFEREES 2020

Adriano Cirulli; Beatrice Carella; Lorenzo Bosi; Luca Raffini; Guya Accornero; Luca Alteri; Fabio de Nardis; Adam Arvidsson; Silvia Semenzin; Laura Iannelli; Sergio Splendore; Jonathan Pratschke; Mauro Barisione; Chiara Maritato; Samuele Davide Molli; Sonja Zmerli; Eva Wegner; Mohamed Masbah; Francesco Cavatorta; Giuseppe Ieraci; Rosita Di Peri; Philipp Degens; Giancarlo Beltrame; Juri Biondi; Pablo Gustavo Rodriguez; Simone Tosi; Hervé Baron; Federico Chicchi; Felix Fritsch; Francesca Coin; Andrea Fumagalli; Ivana Pais; Luca Fantacci; Klodian Muco; Emanuele Leonardi; Antonio Mendoza; Sergio Rossi; Sonja Zmerli, Eva Wegner; Mohamed Masbah; Maria Bakardjieva, Ilona Biernacka, Begoña Pérez Calle, Yi-Ru Regina Chen, Francesca Comunello, Laura Iannelli, Luca Raffini, Francesca Rizzuto, Marco Scarcelli, Sergei Samoilenko, Nancy Snow, Chiara Valentini, Dejan Verčič, Lisa Tam, Lorenza Parisi, Valentina Polci, Kendra Stewart, Emiliano Ilardi, Marika Spalletta, Aitzpea Leizaola; Lorenzo Zamponi; Fra; Alberto Martin Alvarez; Dorte Fischer; Kivanc Attack; Ali Honari; Viviana Asara; Iolanda Bianchi; Sam Burgum; Claudio Cattaneo; Sutapa Chattopadhyay; Deanna Dadusc; Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou; Ibán Díaz-Parra; Danijela Dolenec; Salvatore Engel-Dimauro; Mara Ferreri; Lucy Finchett-Maddock; Federica Frazzetta; Udo Grashoff; Ståle Holgersen;  Amanda Huron; Marc Martí; Pierpaolo Mudu; Arnošt Novák; Luca Pattaroni; Gianni Piazza; Grzegorz Piotrowski; Johan Pries; Valeria Raimondi; Raquel Rolnik; Håkan Thörn; Chiara Valli; Rita Velloso; Ana Vilenica; Marco Damiani; Luca Verzichelli; Alberto Vannucci.

REFEREES 2019

Adriano Cirulli; Alessandro Martelli; Andrea Salvini; Carlotta Caciagli; Carlotta Mozzana; Chiara Bertone; Chiara Milan; Dario Tuorto; Davide Caselli; Elisabete Figueiredo; Emanuele Polizzi; Enrico Gargiulo; Katerina Loukidou; Lorenzo Bosi; Luca Raffini; Margherita Grazioli; Maurizio Artero; Matteo Bassoli; Raffaele Bazurli; Claire Colomb; Raffaella Fittibaldi; Asimina Michailidou; Marco Accorinti; Guya Accornero; Luca Alteri; Eduardo Barberis; Michele Lancione; Nicola De Luigi; Onofrio Romano; Pierluigi Musarò; Sandro Busso; Stefania Kalogeraki; Vando Borghi; Viktor Dahl; Pejman Abdolmohammadi; Anna Lavizzari; Stefania Voli; Jan Rovny; Anselmi Guido; Carrieri Domenica; Caruso Loris; Cattero Bruno; Chiappini Letizia; Coin Francesca; Delfanti Alessandro; Dorigatti Lisa; Gandini Alessandro; Guarascio Dario; Howcroft Debra; Leonardi Salvo; Mori Anna; Neundlinger Klaus; Pais Ivana; Salento Angelo; Sartori Laura; Tassinari Arianna; Tirabeni Lia; Silvia Semenzin; Rossella Borri; Manuela Caiani; Tiago Carvalho; Pietro Castelli; Benoit Challand; Nicole Doerr; Maria Engstroem; Magne Flemmen; Bharath Ganesh; Paolo Gerbaudo; Kai Ginkel; Marcello Gisondi; Paolo Graziano; Simona Guerra; Robert Jansen; Alena Kluknavska; Mark LeVine; Alice Mattoni; Jennifer McCoy; Asimina Michailidou; Lucy Nicholas; Anita Nissen; Elena Pavan; Martín Portos; Simon Teune; Giorgos Venizelos; Manès Weisskircher; Lorenzo Zamponi.

REFEREES 2018

Adriano Cirulli; Alberta Giorgi; Alice Mattoni; Andrea Felicetti; Daniela Piccio; Enrico Padoan; Fabio de Nardis; Francesca Feo; Francesca Forno; Gabriel Bădescu; George Venizelos; Gianni Piazza; Iobhan O’Sullivan; Lorenzo Mosca; Louisa Parks; Luca Alteri; Luca Raffini; Malose Langa; Manuela Caiani; Mario Quaranta; Martin Portos; Massimiliano Andretta; Pierre Monforte; Raffaele Barzuli; Rune Ellefsen; Simone Tosi; Siobhan O’Sullivan; Srune Ellefsen; Tania Sekulic; Timothy Peace; Teresa Piacentini; Thierry Mamashela; Tommaso Vitale; Valeria Tarditi; Weisskircher, Manès.

REFEREES 2017

Adriano Cirulli; Alberta Giorgi; Alice Mattoni; Antonio Ciniero; Arturo Moscoso Moreno; Edison Hurtado; Eduardo Romanos; Eliška Drápalová; Fabio de Nardis; Felipe Burbano; Fikret Adaman; Filip Kostelka; Florence Faucher; Francesca Forno; Francesca Scrinzi;  Geoffrey Pleyers; Gianni Piazza; Giovanni Ragone; Guya Accornero; Helena Cruz; Herman Lelieveldt; Ionel Sava; Javier Alcalde; Josep Lobera; Julia Rone; Kivanc Atak; Leonidas Oikonomakis; Lorenzo Bosi; Lorenzo Cini; Lorenzo Mosca; Lorenzo Viviani; Lorenzo Zamponi; Loris Caruso; Louisa Parks; Luca Alteri; Luca Raffini; Luigi Pellizzoni; Manuela Caiani; Marco Damiani; Maria Bakardjieva; Mario Quaranta; Martijn van den Hurk; Martin Portos; Massimiliano Andretta; Ondřej Císař; Paolo Graziani; Paul Routledge; Peter Burnham; Philippe Joly; Raffaele Barzuli; Renato Stella; Riccardo Emilio Chesta; Simone Tosi; Szabina Kerenyi; Timothy Peace; Tom Willems; Tommaso Vitale; Victor Sampedro; Wouter Van Dooren.

 

REFEREES 2016

Marco Accorinti, Guya Accornero, Kirsty Alezander, Massimo Allulli, Liviu Andreescu, Kivanc Atak, Rita Bichi, Lavinia Bifulco, Pierluca Birindelli, Marco Boccaccio, Vando Borghi, Manuela Caiani, Chiara Carrozza, Sabrina Cavatorto, Carlo Cellamare, Guglielmo Chiodi, Pasquale Colloca, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Marco Damiani, Ernesto d’Albergo, Fabio de Nardis Lucia D'Ambrosi, Mario Diani, Antimo Farro, Martina Ferrucci, Francesca Forno, Enrico Gargiulo, Orazio Giancola, Enrico Gualini, Lisa Lanzone, Elisa Lello, Riccardo Guidi, Herman Lelieveldt, Silvia Lucciarini, Lara Maestripieri, Maria Cristina Marchetti, Riccardo Marchi, Alice Mattoni, Miguel Martinez, Giulio Moini, Giovanni Moro, Pierpaolo Mudu, Mariella Nocenzi; Federico Olivieri, Enrico Padoan, Louisa Parks, Elena Pavan, Luigi Pellizzoni, Caterina Peroni, Gianni Piazza, Carmine Piscopo, Stefano Poli, Emanuele Polizzi, Luca Raffini, Paola Rebuchini, Paola Rivetti, Lucia Rubinelli, Rossana Sampugnaro, Francesca Scrinzi, Chiara Sebastiani, Roberto Serpieri, Sergio Splendore, Simone Tosi, Alberto Vanolo, Tommaso Vitale, Assunta Viteritti, Luca Salmieri, Rossella Selmini, Emiliano Trerè, Lorenzo Zamponi.

 

REFEREES 2015

Adriano Cirulli; Aggelos Varvarousis; Aurelie Campana; Christine Fauvelle-Aymar; Cristiano Bee; Csaba Nikolenyi; Daniela Melo; Eduardo Romanos; Fernando Casal Bértoa; Frederick Solt; Gerard Strange; Gianni Piazza; Giovanni Orlando; Gualter Baptista; Iosif Botetzagias; Jennifer Earl; Jonah Wedekind; Joshua Dubrow; Kerman Calvo; Kristoffer Holt; Kyle Dodson; Kristofer Dittmer; Leandro Sgueglia; Lorenzo Bosi; Lorenzo Mosca; Lorenzo Viviani; Louisa Parks; Luca Alteri; Luca Raffini; Luigi Curini; Manlio Cinalli; Manuela Caiani; Marco Arimero; Maria Kousis; Maria Cristina Marchetti; Mariano Torcal; Mary Stegmaier; Massimiliano Andretta; Massimo Pendenza; Matteo Bassoli; Mauro Di Meglio; Michaele Cox; Monica Sassatelli; Nathan Manning; Paolo R. Graziano; Piepaolo Mudu; Miguel A. Martìnez;Niall O'Dochartaigh; Rita Calvario; Seraphim Seferiades; Silvana Signori; Simone Frank O' Connor; Simone Tosi; Toni Rodon; Stefania Barca; Timothy Peace; Tommaso Vitale; Vincenzo Cicchelli; Vittorio Cotesta; Valeria Bello; Venera Marina Tomaselli; Viviana Asara; Wilko von Hardenberg.

 

REFEREES 2014

Matteo Albanese; Marco Almagisti; Massimiliano Andretta; Joachim Astrom; Martine Baloge; Mattelo Bassoli; Silvia Bolgherini; Paola Bordandini; Fabio Bordignon; Josif Botetzagias; Isabelle Bruno; Giorgia Bulli; Donatella Campus; Sébastien Chauvin; Flavio Chiapponi; Manlio Cinalli; Walter Coralluzzo; Adriano Cirulli; Nicolò Conti; Emanuela Dalmasso; Fabio de Nardis; Rossana De Rosa; Emmanuel Didier; Aldo Di Virgilio; Michael Driessen; Luigi Ceccarini; Chiara Facello; Francesca Forno; Anna Carola Freschi; Tulia Galanti; Matteo Gerli; Mirella Giannini; Alberta Giorgi; Giorgio Giraudi; Joseph Gravina; Selene Grimaldi; Jane Guyer; Béatrice Hibou; Matthieu Gregoire; Riccardo Guidi; Jochen Kleres; Xabier Itçaina; Karel Yon; Sveva Magaraggia; Alice Mattoni; Marco Mazzoni; Vincenzo Memoli; Lorenzo Mosca; Luca Ozzano; Roussel Pascale; Gianluca Passarelli; Luigi Pellizzoni; Jenny Pickerill; Emanuele Polizzi; Sophie Pochic; Stefano Profeti; Jean-Pierre Reed; Gwénola Ricordeau; Roberta Ricucci; Paola Rivetti; Jay Rowell; Michela Semprebon; Jackie Smith; Sorina Soare; Marco Tarchi; Teresa Toldy; Simone Tosi; Luca Verzichelli; Paola Villa; Tommaso Vitale.

 

REFEREES 2010-2013

Thomas Aguilera; Giovanni Allegretti; Luca Alteri; Maurizio Ambrosini; Antonino Anastasi; Massimiliano Andretta; Francesco Antonelli; Daniele Archibugi; Francesca Artioli; Alfredo Augustoni; Carlo Baccetti; Paolo Boccagni; Brunetta Baldi; Joe Bandy; Filippo Barbera; Valeria Bello; Sara Bentivegna; Gianfranco Bettin Lattes; Lavinia Bifulco; Renato Biorcio; Loic Blondiau; Silvia Bolgherini; Federico Boni; Fabio Burdignon; Vando Borghi; Lorenzo Bosi; Bill Bowring; Giorgia Bulli; Tiziana Caponio; Gennaro Carotenuto; Mimmo Carrieri; Loris Caruso; Luigi Ceccarin; Erika Cellini; Anna Cento Bull; Tommaso Chiamparino; Leonardo Chiesi; Manlio Cinalli; Adriano Cirulli; Giulio Citroni; N. Clarke; Chris Cordell; Tariq Dana; Ernesto d’Albergo; Ota de Leonardis; Beppe De Sario; Gianluca De Fazio; Donatella della Porta; Charles Demtrious; Fabio de Nardis; Lorenzo De Sio; Mario Diani; Danilo Di Mauro; Yulia Eckert; Enrico Ercole; Javier Esparcia; Maria Fabbri; Antimo Farro; Florence Fauchner King; Angela Fedi; Joan Font; Francesca Forno; Anna Carola Freschi; Andrea Fumagalli; Carlo Fusaro; Diego Gambetta; Ernest Garcia; Marisol Garcia; Fancesca Gelli; Diego Giacchetti; Marco Giugni; Cristina Grasseni; Pietro Grilli di Cortona; Giorgio Grossi; Virginie Guiraudon; Cesar Guzman; Charlotte Halpern; Camille Hamidi; Xabier Itkaina; F. Jobard; A. Kavada; M. Keck; Giovan Francesco Lanzara; Patrick Le Galès; Leizaola Aitzpea; Luisa Leonini; Andrea Lippi; Stefano Lucarelli; Wainer Lusoli; Natalia Magnani; Andrea Mammone; Marcello Maneri; S. Mangiameli; Mara Maretti; Roberta Marzorati; Alice Mattoni; David McCrone; Peter McLoughlin; Maurizio Merico; Patrizis Milesi; Ann Mische; Giulio Moini; Nicola Montagna; Lorenzo Mosca; Fortunato Musella; Antonio Mutti; José Nuñez Marco Oberti; Thomas Olesen; Giorgio Osti; Andrea Pacella; Claudia Padovani; Francesc Pallares; Marion Paoletti; Sonia Paone; Guido Panvini; Francesca Pasquali; Luca Pattaroni; Luigi Pellizzoni; Daniela Piana; Mario Pianta; Gianni Piazza; Chris Pickvance; Alessandro Pizzorno; Heiko Pleines; Noemi Podestà; Emanuele Polizzi; Francesca Polletta; Nicola Porro; Stefania Profeti; Fabio Quassoli; Luca Raffini; Francesco Raniolo; Paola Rebughini; Daniel Ritter; Charles Rootes.; Vincenzo. Ruggiero; Carlo Ruzza; Marco Santoro; Clare Saunders; Rocco Sciarrone; Chiara Sebastiani; Stijn Smismans; Isabelle Sommier; Lauro Struffi; Enrico Tacchi; Simone Tosi; Domenico Tosini; Gloria Totoritaguena; Luca Trappolin; Jaqueline Urda; Fulvio Venturino; Serena Vicari; Anna Maria Vitale; Tommaso Vitale; Lorenzo Viviani; Anna Maria Zaccaria; David Waddington.

 

Guidelines for referees

Thank you for agreeing to referee a submission to Partecipazione e Conflitto. Please take account of the following points when composing your report.

Here you can also DOWNLOAD THE REVIEWERS GUIDELINES.

 

Your verdict:

Please be clear in your recommendations. You have five options:

PUBLISHED IN ITS PRESENT FORM

Use this option when an article is ready for publication in its present form.

PUBLISHED WITH MINOR REVISIONS

You may accept the article and still make suggestions for minor changes to be made to the article. The General Editors will ensure that your suggestions are implemented insofar as this is possible.

PUBLISHED WITH SUBSTANTIAL REVISION

Use this option when an article is good, but need to be substantially improved. Please state clearly the changes you think need to be made. Any changes you recommend should not involve major restructuring, extensive new research or a fundamental change of argument.

REVISED AND RESUBMITTED

You may consider the article not suitable for publication in its present form but nevertheless innovative in its fundamental argument and/or findings. In this case you may encourage the author(s) to make substantial revision or new research and then resubmit. Please state clearly your reasons for resubmission giving details about major changes.

With your agreement, the article may be referred back to you once the author has made the necessary amendments.

REJECT

When you reject, you should state your reasons for rejection clearly. At the same time, if at all possible, please give some idea of how the article could be improved as a courtesy to the author. You may even suggest that the article has a certain amount of potential and could possibly be worth resubmitting in a different form or journal (please in this case suggest the journal)

Anonymity:

Please remain anonymous in your report which will be passed on to the author as a matter of course.

Tone:

Please be polite and as helpful as you can even if your verdict on the article is very negative. Remember that we receive submissions from postgraduate students.

Length of article:

Please pay particular attention to the length of the article. Is it proportionate to the material? Could cuts be made? If so, where? Please consider that, according to our editorial standards, one article should be below 10,000 words (footnotes, references, figures and tables included).

Length of report:

The more you write, broadly speaking, the more helpful the report is to us and the author.

REFEREE REPORT:

Please note that it is the usual practice of our journal to pass on referees’ reports to the author. Please make your report anonymous, in order to maintain the “blind peer review” nature of the refereeing process.

1.      Please indicate which of the following categories the paper fits into:

•        It makes an original theoretical contribution;

•        It applies an established theoretical hypothesis to new cases;

•        It offers new empirical research of importance to the topic studied;

•        It provides a critical re-examination of the literature on the topic;

•        None of the above.

2.   Please include an explicit recommendation as to whether the paper should be:

•        published in its present form;

•        published with minor revisions;

•        published with substantial revisions (revised and resubmitted);

•        rejected.

3.   In assessing the article’s suitability for publication in “Partecipazione e Conflitto” please could you bear in mind the following questions:

   To what extent does the paper indicate familiarity with the existing literature on the subject?

   Does the article display a critical awareness of the relevant literature?

   To what extent is the paper based on original research?

   How valid are the author’s methodology and sources?

   How well presented are the arguments and empirical evidence?

Please, write below your analytical report (at least 450 words):

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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The publication of an article in the peer-reviewed journal Partecipazione e conflitto (Participation and Conflict) is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

ESE Salento University Publishing as publisher of the Open journal of Sociopolitical Studies "Partecipazione e conflitto" takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. In addition, ESE Salento University Publishing subscribes iThenticate by iParadigms and promotes its use to prevent plagiarism.

Author's responsibilities

Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process. All authors have significantly contributed to the research, statement that all data in article are real and authentic. All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers

Reviewers Judgments are objective. Reviewers have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Reviewers point out relevant published work which is not yet cited. Reviewed articles must be treated confidentially. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Editorial responsibilities

Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article. Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept, only accept a paper when reasonably certain, when errors are found, promote publication of correction or retraction, preserve anonymity of reviewers.

 

Promote your articles in PACO!

Dear Author,

After the publication of your paper in PACO, it could be useful to work for its dissemination.

Listed below are some simple and effective methods to promote your paper to reach the widest and most appropriate audiences.

Author eprints: your friends and contacts can now read your published articles for free. The introduction of the Open Journal System (OJS) enables all authors to quickly and easily share links to the electronic version of their articles. On ESE Salento University Publishing you are already able to view all your articles by signing into the "Authors area" within your Account. Within the Authored Works section you can access the new eprint facility which allows you to send other people links to any of your articles. Recipients will instantly have free access to the specific article you are looking for, without any requirement to register or sign in. Anyone will be able to access each paper for free.

Free registration: inform all your contacts of the opportunity to register for free with PACO to receive immediate notifications of important new content added to the publication.

Reading lists: add your article, or the journal, to your students' reading lists as essential reading.

Department website and personal webpage: use your staff profile entry on your department website, or your personal webpage, to add information about your article and link directly to the online version.

Twitter and Facebook: authors are increasingly promoting their content via Twitter and Facebook so it can be picked up by other researchers and practitioners. Place an announcement on your Twitter or Facebook page highlighting the publication of your article with a link to direct people to the online version.

LinkedIn: LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world with over 55 million members. It is not just for career opportunities. When you create your profile that summarizes your professional expertise and accomplishments, why not include a mention of your articles?

Join academic social networking sites: academics, researchers, and practitioners are increasingly using social communities such as MyNetReseach and Academici as a way of meeting and conversing with people who share the same research interests.

CiteULike: you could add your article to your personal CiteULike library to share with others, which helps them discover literature which is relevant to their field. You can help with this process just by using CiteULike and through the invite a friend feature.

Discussion lists: post a short message to any discussion lists you are a member of, letting people know that the journal's latest issue, which includes your article, is now available. The easiest way to do this is to register for the table of contents alert for the journal so you can forward the email once you have received it. When browsing our content, at the top of the page (under the journal cover image) you can click on the Alert Me button. Please select the type of alert you require from the dropdown menu (either email alert or RSS feed).

Blogs: if you blog, don't forget to inform other users about your article.

Library recommendation: check your Institution or University Library has a free registration/subscription to the journal. If not, recommend it to do it.

Free access to PACO website: encourage others to visit our webpage and read papers published in our journal.

 

Rating Anvur

PACO is rated CLASS A journal, by the Italian Academic Research Evaluation Agency (Anvur), for the area 14 (social sciences) and, in particular, for the following scientific areas: 14 a1 (Filosofia politica), 14 a2 (Scienza politica), 14 c1 (Sociologia generale), 14 c2 (Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi), 14 c3 (Sociologia giuridica e politica), 14 d1 (Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro, dell'ambiente e del territorio).

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Dall'Anvur (Agenzia nazionale di valutazione della ricerca universitaria), la rivista è collocata in CLASSE A per l'area 14 (scienze politiche e sociali) e, in particolare, per le aree scientifico-disciplinari: 14a2 (scienza politica),  14 c1 (Sociologia generale), 14 c2 (Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi), 14 c3 (Sociologia giuridica e politica), 14 d1 (Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro, dell'ambiente e del territorio), ''perché rispondente a tutti gli standard di eccellenza definiti dalla stessa Agenzia di valutazione'' [giudizio tratto dalle motivazioni addotte dagli esperti valutatori d'area].



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