About the Journal

Focus and Scope

«Scienza & Politica, per una storia delle dottrine» is an experiment that has lasted for more than twenty years. Started as a printed journal in 1989, from 2011 it is published only in electronic format. “Scienza & Politica” addresses the consolidated views of the scientific disciplines concerning “the Political”, that are more or less routinely divided into philosophy, history, law, sociology, plus a history specifically concerned with thought. Our choice is not simply to assume an interdisciplinary approach, but to work on the lines of connection and overlapping between the different disciplines. The journal aims to test the research on the complex and diverse belonging of political phenomena, rather than on their specific disciplinary determination. It pretends to put at stake the disciplines themselves knowing that they are a major mode of acquisition and transmission of knowledge.

For this reason, the Journal does not want to deal directly and exclusively with “science”, but with those projections that translate science into formulas socially transmitted, i.e. into doctrines. We are interested in registering and decoding the inevitable “political” impact that all doctrines have within any field of interest and action because of their constitutive “social” function (through the educational, cultural and ideological transmission). The Journal explores the doctrines as material phenomena, whose aim, performance, weight, historicity can be measured. They reveal the existence of a daily and living politics that is not necessarily expressed in political terms.

Section Policy

Theme

This section publishes the monographic section of the journal, in which different authors explore a given theme from different points of view. The section has one or more editors. Each essay in the monographic section is reviewed according to the criteria stated by Scienza & Politica. The section is open to outside submissions.

Essays

The essays section contains all contributions that the journal considers relevant and pertinent to its scientific profile and editorial line. All essays is reviewed according to the criteria stated by Scienza & Politica. The section is open to outside submissions.

Materials

It is intended for the republication of short essays that are no longer available but that the journal considers important to bring to the attention of scholars, as well as for the translation of essays that are otherwise difficult to access because of their original location or the language in which they are written. The section is open to outside submissions.

Report

This section contains brief discussions of recently published texts, reports of conferences, seminars and days of study on topics of interest to the journal. The section is open to outside submissions.

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double blind peer review. The steps in the selection process are as follows: an initial editorial review of the appropriateness and relevance to the journal slant of the proposed contribution; a subsequent peer-review (double blind); review of the text by the author; and acceptance of the text, which involves the author working to conform to the editorial guidelines. The two anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competences and research fields and are external to the journal’s editorial staff and committees. Procedures are formalized to ensure transparency, autonomy of reviewers, and absence of conflicts of interest. In exceptional cases, the editors take responsibility for publication of a contribution, regardless of the peer-review process, indicating this in the body of the article. Papers are evaluated according to several criteria as listed in an “evaluation card”, which meets international scientific standards for journals. By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double blind peer review process. The Editorial Board will give a judgment both in case of approval or non-approval of the article, within three months from the date of submission. As part of the initial quality assessment, each article will undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate.

Reviewers 2013-2024

Gianluca Bonaiuti (University of Florence); Matteo Cavalleri (University of Bologna); Paola Persano (University of Macerata); Giovanni Ruocco (La Sapienza University of Rome); Paola Rudan (University of Bologna); Isabella Consolati (University of Bologna); Maura Brighenti (IDAES, Buenos Aires); Mario Piccinini (University of Padua); Antonino Scalone (University of Padua); Maurizio Merlo (University of Padua); Ferdinando Fasce (University of Genoa); Fabrizio Tonello (University of Padua); Arnaldo Testi (University of Pisa); Tiziano Bonazzi (University of Bologna); Pietro Bianchi (Duke University); Sandro Chignola (University of Padua); Fabio Raimondi (University of Trieste); Luisa Simonutti (University of Ferrara); Brunella Casalini (University of Florence); Paola Persano (University of Macerata); Isabella Consolati (Polytechnic of Turin); Sabrina Marchetti (Ca’ Foscari of Venice); Ferruccio Gambino (University of Padua); Olivia Guaraldo (University of Verona); Natascia Mattucci (University of Macerata); Vinicio Busacchi (University of Catania); Manuel Anselmi (LUISS); Damiano Palano (Catholic University of Milan); Fortunato Maria Cacciatore (University of Calabria); Giovanni Borgognone (University of Turin); Michele Cento (University of Urbino); Valentina Antoniol (University of Bari); Paolo Napoli (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris); Luca Alici (University of Perugia); Andrea Marchili (UniCusano); Sara Lagi (University of Turin); Enrica Rigo (University of Roma Tre); Nicola Marcucci (EHESS); Luca Basso (University of Padua); Maria Rosaria Stabili (University of Roma Tre); Sebastian Torres (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Argentina); Sabrina Marchetti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Luisa Simonutti (ISPF); Filippo Triola (Freie Universität Berlin); Giovanni Giorgini (University of Bologna); Maurizio Bergamaschi (University of Bologna); Luca Scuccimarra (La Sapienza University Rome); Riccardo Caporali (University of Bologna); Francesco Cerrato (University of Bologna); Alberto Clerici (Cusano University); Gennaro Carillo (Unisob Naples); Federico Alessandro Goria (University of Eastern Piedmont); Stefano Lucarelli (University of Bergamo); Manuela Ceretta (University of Turin); Silvia Rodeschini (University of Florence); Giulio De Ligio (EHESS); Giovanni Campailla (Université Paris Nanterre); Roberto Carradore (University of Milano-Bicocca); Gabriele Guerra (La Sapienza Roma); Mauro Farnesi Camellone (University of Padua); Francesco Regalzi (University of Turin); Francesco Raschi (University of Bologna); Matteo Bortolini (University of Padua); Federica Sossi (University of Bergamo); Brett Neilson (University of Western Sidney); Stefano Visentin (University of Urbino); Gabriele Schimmenti (University of Roma Tre); Rolando Vitali (University of Bologna); Salvatore Vaccaro (University of Padua); Orsetta Giolo (University of Florence); Tiziano Bonini Baldini (University of Siena); Annalisa Furia (University of Bologna); Sara Lagi (University of Turin); Stefano Pippa (University of Milano-Bicocca); Giorgio Cesarale (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Marco Gatto (University of Calabria); Alberto Clerici (Unicusano Telematic University); Sara Antonelli (University of Roma Tre); Gennaro Maria Barbuto (University of Naples); Matilde Cazzola (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory); Giovanni Zanalda (Duke University); Anna Rita Gabellone (University of Salento); Dario Gentili (University of Roma Tre); Cristina Bon (Catholic University of Milan); Gianpaolo Cherchi (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University); Natascia Mattucci (University of Macerata); Michele Marchi (University of Bologna); Paola Ugolini (University of Roma Tre); Gabriella Bruna Zarri (University of Florence); Michele Lodone (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Delio Salottolo (University of Naples “L’Orientale”); Roberto Brigati (University of Bologna); Marco Faini (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice); Franco Maria Di Sciullo (University of Messina); Giovanni Scarpato (University of Naples); Daniela Tafani (University of Pisa); Gennaro Carillo (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Naples); Ugo Bruschi (University of Bologna).

Publication Frequency

The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

The journal allows the reprinting of postprint on other websites or institutional archives, also in the definitive editorial version.

We consider also the publication of preprint which have been already published or inserted in institutional archives.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

The authors who want to publish on our journal are required to sign the disclaimer: Author Guidelines

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

«Scienza & Politica» adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

  • ACNP - Catalogo italiano dei periodici
  • BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  • ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science)
  • EZB – Electronic Journals Library, University of Regensburg
  • Google Scholar - Motore di ricerca accademico
  • JournalTOCs - Aggregatore letteratura accademica
  • Mir@bel –
  • ROAD – Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
  • Ulrichsweb - Global Serials Directory
  • ZDB – German National Library

The journal is also present in:

  • Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries, USA
  • University of Chicago Library, USA
  • University of Manitoba Libraries, Canada
  • University of Saskatchewan Library, Canada
  • University of Essex,The Albert Sloman Library
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam – Universiteitsbibliotheek, EUR - University Library
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam, Centrale Bibliotheek
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
  • Universitaetsbibliothek der TU Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH)
  • Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
  • Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
  • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Standort Frankfurt am Main
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek (NLB)
  • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Universität Zürich / Nebis
  • Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
  • Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
  • University of Regina, Canada
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library
  • AUT University Library, New Zealand
  • Griffith University Library, Australia
  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Biblioteca d'Ateneo, Milano
  • Università di Genova - Biblioteca del Polo di Imperia (CIPE), University of Genoa - Imperia Campus Library (CIPE)
  • Biblioteca Comunale di Trento
  • Biblioteca d'Ateneo dell'Università degli Studi di Trento
  • Biblioteca della Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • Centro di Studi per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno - Biblioteca (CIPE), Library for the History of Modern Legal Thought (CIPE), Firenze

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/

Journal History

1989: birth of the biannual Journal, Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine, founded by Pierangelo Schiera and Aldo Mazzacane. The first director was Giovanni Faustini.

1999: Scienza & Politica changes publisher (Clueb Bologna) and is coordinated by Pierangelo Schiera. The new series is connected with the Association of Roberto Ruffilli.

2011: Scienza & Politica becomes an online open access publication and is scientifically accredited, with double blind peer review.

2012: Scienza & Politica joins the Alma Digital Library services at the University of Bologna.

2013: Scienza & Politica is classified class-A for the scientific-disciplinary sector SPS 02 for the Area 14 valid for ASN. The Journal published a new series, Scienza & Politica Supplement with double blind peer review. Between 2013 and 2018 the Journal has published 7 Supplements.

2015: Scienza & Politica is co-directed by Maurizio Ricciardi e Pierangelo Schiera.

Presentazione — V.1, N.1 (1989)

What we are inaugurating is not a journal, with the ambition of completeness or representativeness, of either disciplining or systematic nature. This brief introduction, as well, is neither a political-academic nor a scientific manifesto. This journal is just an – hopefully periodical - opportunity to illustrate and, if possible, to explain – to ourselves also – the work that a group of friends has done for some years and that hopes keeping on doing for the next ones. The group, which is heterogeneous and very varied, has met for some years at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, thanks to the contribution of the National Research Council (CNR). So far it has mainly concerned a research on “Costituzioni sociali, teorie dello Stato, ideologie in Germania” (Social constitutions, theories of the State and ideologies in Germany) directed by Pierangelo Schiera, which lasted from 1982 to 1988, and an ongoing research on “Cultura giuridica e scienze sociali in Italia e in Germania nel secolo XIX” (Legal culture and social science in Italy and Germany during the 19th Century), directed by Aldo Mazzacane. It is now being developed a project for a third research (concerning issues on social and constitutional history of higher education and scientific organization in Italy after the unification) the request for which is going to be forwarded within the deadline. It is pointless to detail here all the scientific results achieved by the members of the group over these years: the CNR Bulletin is in charge of giving this kind of information in the future (however, these results have already appeared in several series of books of the Italian-German Historical Institute published by Il Mulino). Nevertheless, it is necessary to highlight that these results have mainly been achieved individually, as the coaction force of the group is – alas – very weak. Over the years, this has resulted in defections and new acquisitions, according to the change of the general and particular conditions of the research. My impression, however, is that this way of working in group left both a quantitative and a qualitative mark. That means which, as a sort of communis opinio has been developing among us, we gradually started to share it, both on the methodological level and on that concerning research subjects and procedures. Thus, the purpose of these pages is that of being a container of this opinio: firstly, to make ourselves believe that our work will come out in a more programmatic way as opposed to how has been so far; secondly, to give the others our contribution, in the tacit hope that we will receive falsification or validation in return, useful to go on all the same. The cover of the little book “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine” shows helmeted Athena (the symbol of Science) sitting in a definitively melancholic position. In my opinion, this icon represents the justification for our research: the questioning about the reasons for the “melancholy of the science”, that is, why and how the science oscillates, in its results and in its own procedures, between the triumphalism of omnipotence and the removal of compromise. In other words, our theme of research is about the complicated and multiple-meaning relationship between science and power, particularly, taking into account the double function of the latter: that of leadership and that of obedience (in the sense that science serves to make the leadership more cogent and the obedience stronger). For this reason, we declare our option for a “history of doctrines”. By this, we mean that our intention is not to deal solely with “science”, but with those views of the science that are translated into principles to convey socially: precisely, into “doctrines”. However, we do not intend to study only those doctrines related to the political issues (on the philosophical and ideological level or on the technical and constitutional one). Instead, we are interested in trying to detect and decode the inevitable “political” impact doctrines have within any field of interest or action they are, due to their constitutive “social” function (through the school, cultural and ideological transmission). It goes without saying that we will pay greater attention to those doctrines concerning the field of the so called “social science”: in this case it is straightforward to identify the paths that we have just mentioned. In addition to this, we do not have any methodological or programmatic purpose. Our main concern is to succeed in giving evidence of the possibility for collaboration and mutual comprehension among researchers with different background and education. Should that lead to a common, even plausible, discourse, then we will have spent well our time.

Pierangelo Schiera

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
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Ownership

Dipartimento delle Arti – DAR
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