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Focus and Scope
Aims, Focus, and Scope
JISPO: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing original, theoretically informed, and methodologically rigorous research across the social and political sciences.
JISPO aims to provide an interdisciplinary academic platform for examining the relationships between society, politics, governance, institutions, culture, and social transformation. The journal seeks to advance scholarly understanding of contemporary social and political phenomena by connecting empirically grounded research with broader theoretical, conceptual, and methodological debates.
With particular attention to Indonesia and its regional and global connections, JISPO encourages research that situates local and national experiences within wider comparative and international perspectives. The journal welcomes contributions that deepen understanding of social structures, political processes, institutional dynamics, public governance, and the changing relationships between individuals, communities, and the state.
Through the publication of high-quality scholarship, JISPO seeks to promote intellectual exchange across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, contribute to the development of social and political sciences, and encourage critical inquiry into the challenges and transformations affecting contemporary societies.
The journal welcomes contributions from scholars worldwide and values research that offers substantive theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-relevant insights into social and political issues.
Focus
JISPO focuses on the study of social and political phenomena, particularly the ways in which social structures, political institutions, governance systems, cultural practices, and relations of power shape contemporary societies.
The journal places particular emphasis on three interconnected areas of scholarship: sociology and social transformation; politics and political institutions; and public administration, governance, and public policy. These fields constitute the journal's principal disciplinary foundations and provide a coherent framework for interdisciplinary research across the social and political sciences.
Within these areas, JISPO encourages research addressing democracy, political participation, state–society relations, citizenship, social inequality, institutional development, public service delivery, political behaviour, social identity, and the dynamics of social and political change.
The journal also welcomes scholarship examining the intersections of these concerns with international relations, communication and media, religion and politics, development, gender, migration, environmental governance, technological transformation, and emerging global challenges.
JISPO particularly values research that connects locally grounded evidence with broader scholarly debates, develops or critically engages with relevant theories, and offers comparative perspectives capable of advancing social and political knowledge beyond specific geographical settings.
These areas reflect the journal's central scholarly orientation rather than exclusive disciplinary boundaries. JISPO remains open to innovative, interdisciplinary, and emerging approaches that make substantial contributions to the understanding of social and political processes.
Scope
JISPO welcomes original, theoretically informed, and methodologically rigorous research across the social and political sciences. The journal encourages interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship addressing contemporary social and political issues, particularly in Indonesia and their regional and global contexts.
The journal covers four interconnected areas of scholarship, including but not limited to:
1. Sociology, Society, and Social Transformation
Social theory, social structures, social change, social inequality, social movements, community development, gender and intersectionality, migration, cultural identity, religion and society, social welfare, urban and rural studies, and the social implications of globalization and digital transformation.
2. Politics, Democracy, and International Relations
Political theory, political institutions, democracy, elections, political participation, political behaviour, political communication, political parties, political Islam, identity politics, civil society, comparative politics, foreign policy, diplomacy, international relations, geopolitics, conflict, and global governance.
3. Public Administration, Governance, and Public Policy
Public administration, public management, bureaucratic reform, public sector innovation, public service delivery, decentralization, local governance, digital government, public accountability, collaborative governance, policy formulation, implementation and evaluation, regulatory governance, and institutional development.
4. Interdisciplinary Social and Political Studies
Research examining the intersections of social and political sciences with communication and media, development studies, political economy, religion and culture, environmental governance, sustainability, human rights, citizenship, security studies, technology and society, and emerging societal challenges.
JISPO welcomes qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, comparative, and conceptual studies that demonstrate clear theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-relevant contributions to the social and political sciences.
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