About ASAP
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP) is an electronic journal sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). The journal is an outlet for timely and innovative psychological and related social science scholarship with implications for social action and policy. We seek to be a forum for publishing new work as well as discussion on alternative approaches to a variety of important and current social problems. By encouraging timely publication of well-written peer-reviewed work, we aim to facilitate communication between social science researchers and policy makers as well as with the public as a whole.
- Articles will communicate with a broad spectrum of interested individuals as well as with the social science community.
- Articles will be published electronically as soon as they are accepted for publication. At the end of each year, a print version will be made available to all institutions that subscribe to the Journal of Social Issues.
- ASAP is not a thematic journal. Submissions in any content area related to the goals of SPSSI will be considered. They will be evaluated in terms of scholarly excellence as well as their relevance to social problems, social action and policy.
- ASAP has an internationally respected Editorial Board with expertise in both social science research and the application of that research to real world issues
Article Format
Articles in a variety of formats are welcome. These include:
- Reports of research relevant to social issues and public policy
- Examinations of social intervention research (Including unsuccessful interventions
- Discussions of approaches to and methods of evaluating public policy
- Theoretical articles
- Reviews of the literature in current areas of concern
- Book reviews
- Reviews of web sites (including links to sites)
- Point/counter-point discussions on controversial social issues
- Invited articles from public policy experts detailing what they need from researchers
More information can be found on the SPSSI website as well as on the Blackwell Publishing website - the publishers of the journal. For detailed information regarding submission of articles, please click here to contact Geoff Maruyama with preliminary proposals. We would also appreciate offers to review materials for the journal. You may contact Geoff Maruyama, Editor of ASAP at geoff@umn.edu.