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Since 1977, the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) has published political economic alternatives to orthodox economics and analyses of key features of contemporary capitalism. The journal continues to foster debates about the interactions between capital, labour, ecology and the state, particularly in the Australian context.
JAPE publishes two issues each year, which are either ‘theme’ issues on a particular topic or ‘general’ issues containing articles on a range of topics. The journal’s editors are committed to publishing high-quality and peer-reviewed articles and encouraging young scholars to develop their research publications.
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Submission
Guide.
Interested in submitting?
Email your submission to the Editorial Coordinator, Frank Stilwell. Submissions must include an abstract of 40-80 words.
Papers must not be simultaneously submitted to another journal. All contributions go through a refereeing process to determine their suitability for publication.
JAPE is published by the Australian Political Economy Movement.
A prime concern is that the journal reaches the widest possible audience. Contributors should write plainly, avoid unnecessary jargon and employ economy in use of footnotes.
The normal maximum length for articles is 8,000 words. References to cited works should be placed in the text’s body, not as footnotes. For each quotation/statement requiring reference, place the citation in parenthesis (author’s last name, year of publication, and page/s cited), e.g., (Harvey 2014: 93) or (Fine and Milonakis 2009: 121-27). Footnotes should only include material that cannot be placed in-text.
All references should be listed at the end, alphabetically by author’s last name (and chronologically for two or more titles by the same author/s) as indicated below:
Valiente-Riedl, E. (2016) To Be Free and Fair? Debating Fair Trade’s Shifting Response to Global Inequality, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No 78, Summer, pp. 159-85.
Stilwell, F. and Jordan, K. (2007) Who Gets What? Analysing Economic Inequality in Australia, Cambridge: Cambridge University
The material in Journal of Australian Political Economy is copyright. Persons seeking permission to reprint articles should contact the JAPE Editorial Coordinator.
JAPE Young
Scholar Award.
JAPE offers an annual award to a student or recent graduate wishing to undertake a short period of research in political economy. The award has a value of $2000.
Developing a thesis into a publishable article [e.g. for submission to the Journal of Australian Political Economy] is the normal project undertaken by recipients of this Award. That might mean condensing an existing thesis into an article of about 8,000 words. It might mean taking just one part of a thesis and developing it further into a stand-alone article. JAPE editors can advise on these alternatives and how to go about the task.
Applicants may be of any age but must be in at least their third year of undergraduate study in political economy or a related social science subject. They may have already completed their degree. Students who are completing an honours thesis and would like the experience of doing further research during part of the following year (or the year after) would be particularly welcome to apply.
Some time may be spent in a University for this purpose. This could be the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, for example, but other places could be possible if the conditions below are met. Being based at a university is not a necessary condition placed on the recipient of the Award, however, and they would not have any employment relationship with the university.