International Review of Public Policy (IRPP) - Nueva Revista de Políticas Públicas

The IRPP is an inclusive and integrative open access journal, free to its authors and readers. IRPP is the flagship journal of the most important world-wide association for public policy in the social sciences, the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). Our journal is dedicated to advance knowledge about public policy in different sectors, countries and regions of the world. We accept submissions with a word-limit of 10,000 words, including references, footnotes, tables and graphs.

The journal hosts contributions on theories of the policy process, empirical tests of models, agenda-setting, decisions, policy instruments policy types, policy change, policy implementation, evaluation & appraisal, and a host of other social-scientific issues revolving around public policy. IRPP publishes both comparative studies and single case studies.

Methodologically, it is completely open to individual methods (such as experiments, statistics, qualitative and interpretive methods) as well as to mixed-methods contributions. The IRPP does not discriminate against any ontological presupposition. An important aim of the journal is to publish research that has high translation value – by this, we mean policy research that makes a broad range of findings available to policy-makers, civil society organizations, pressure groups and citizens concerned about policy issues.

All submissions go through rigorous double-blind peer review. Submissions to the journal undergo an initial editorial screening and, when a submission is considered appropriate, it is reviewed by at least two referees.

In addition to regular submissions, the journal also has a Book Review section and a Forum Section on debates and controversies about public policy studies.

The first issue of the journal appear last August 2019. For more information please visit