DOI: doi.org/10.58570
ISSN: 2996-9530
Submission Guidelines
1. Review Process
To encourage timely substantive debate, the review process of Taiwan Politics is designed to provide authors with timely decisions. Submissions are firstly reviewed by the editor to filter out inappropriate manuscripts for the incorrect format, falling outside the scope of this journal, or without sufficient quality. The initial check is expected to be completed within 7 workdays. The remaining manuscripts are then peer-reviewed under the supervision of the editor for the relevant subfields.
The review process is single-blind with referees remaining anonymous. Referee reports are considered advisory but not definitive in the editors’ decisions. The first decision based on external review is expected to be made within 28 workdays after initial submission.
There are no fees to submit or publish in Taiwan Politics.
Please ensure that you are submitting your original work, you have the rights in the work, and the submission has not already been published elsewhere.
2. Article Type
Taiwan Politics aims to stimulate cutting-edge discussions in political science and facilitate innovative modes of scholarly exchange in the studies of Taiwan and Asian politics. We, therefore, welcome submissions across a wide range of methodological or theoretical frameworks, provided they are relevant to the research question and conform to the highest standards of research ethics.
Taiwan Politics welcomes four types of submissions: (1) Research note, (2) Trend, (3) Null finding, and (4) Review article.
(1) Research Note
Taiwan Politics welcomes original research notes that show the theoretical and empirical importance of the studies of Taiwan and Asian politics. The submission needs to speak to the existing literature concisely and presents a clear research question, albeit the findings may not be scholarly surprising. Examples of the research note include quantitative analysis confirming or disconfirming the existing literature, a game-theoretical model for ongoing or historical political events, or a puzzling phenomenon extracted from previously unused qualitative materials.
Research notes are no more than 4000 words in length including literature review, research question(s), findings, notes, and references.
(2) Trend
With the norm in political science gradually shifting toward identifying the causal mechanism, the importance and publication of descriptive analysis are undervalued and discouraged. Taiwan Politics believes that descriptive analysis is crucial for the knowledge generation process. Descriptive analysis helps researchers figure out the big picture of a social phenomenon, its past, and its potential future; it illustrates the trends as well as the deviations, which will stimulate new hypotheses and research agenda. It will also reinvigorate previously ignored data archives and items in existing surveys.
Trend invites original descriptive analysis of data archives or existing surveys. Hypothesis testing is not needed, but the number of data points should be enough to discern an interesting pattern. The submission should include a concise theoretical motivation for the descriptive analysis and future research hypotheses possibly generated from the analysis. Updating the findings or descriptive analyses in the existing literature is also acceptable, but it will be evaluated by the importance of the update versus the percentage of overlap with existing findings. Examples of trends include the change in national identity, change in the usage of social media, change in the mobilization network across elections, change in the opinion of specific policies by years, Twitter hashtag trend, volume analysis on Facebook, etc. Visualization of trends is highly recommended.
Trend submissions should be no more than 2000 words in length including literature review, data source, findings, visualization, discussion, notes, and references.
(3) Null Hypothesis
Generalization and replicability are two important goals for pursuing the scientific standard, but many empirical tests reject the literature-driven or theory-driven hypotheses in the end. Such null findings are especially common in the studies of comparative politics given the low contextual and temporal validity in the rapidly changing world. Taiwan Politics believes in the value of null findings and their contribution to the existing literature and scientific accumulation of knowledge. Examples of the Null Hypothesis include null findings, statistically insignificant results, or even opposite results in which the hypothesis or theory is well-established in the existing literature.
Null hypothesis submissions should be no more than 4000 words in length including a well-grounded literature review, data source, analysis, discussion, notes, and references.
(4) Review Article
Research articles tend to make a point to the existing literature, and review articles aim at connecting existing points that journal articles made. With the rapid increase in the number and volume of articles and journals in the study of Taiwan and Asian politics, a review article is expected to review the recent developments in certain topics under a specific scope. Examples of the review article include theoretical debates, opposite empirical findings, and nuance in research designs or measurements. A high-quality review article is expected to generate future research hypotheses or questions.
Review articles for Taiwan Politics should be no more than 4000 words in length including literature review, new hypotheses, notes, and references.
3. Format and Submission
The preferred format for the manuscript is Word. Pdf files are also acceptable for the initial submission, but the final version must be editable.
Please submit only one file including all necessary information for your submission, including a title page and the main text.
The title page (100 to 200 words that are not counted toward the word limit) should include the article title, author’s name and affiliation, email address, abstract, and three to five keywords. The main text includes one of the four abovementioned article types.
Please follow double-spacing and 12 font size throughout the main text.
Taiwan Politics adheres to the Chicago author-date (17th edition). Therefore, please provide the web link for all reference works for indexing if a web link exists.
Please clearly indicate the type of submission in the cover letter to the editor while submitting the article.
Please use the scholastica submission system above to upload your submission.
For any questions, please contact the executive chief, Austin Horng-En Wang, at austin.wang@unlv.edu