Populism at Five – An Editor’s Reflections

This is the tenth issue of Populism, meaning that this is the end of our fifth full year of publication.To be sure, the work needed to get to this point began well before our first issue appeared in Spring 2018, but the proof, as they say, is in the puddling.Journals are for publishing.By that standard, we've made it five years.As editor, I thought this would be an appropriate time to take stock of what the journal has achieved -as well as to assess areas it needs help improving on.Accordingly, I am presenting what might be called an Interim Report on what we've done, who we've done it with, and where we'd like to go moving forward.So far (not including this second issue of 2022), we have published fortyeight scholarly articles and twenty-one book reviews.The topics of the scholarly manuscripts have been broad.Twenty have approached populism from a generally theoretical, non-region specific perspective, offering analyses of various conceptual elements of the phenomenon.Of those with a more identifiably regional focus, Europe has drawn most of our attention with fifteen articles.Many fewer have focused on the politics of Asia, the Middle East, Latin and South America, and the United States.So far, none have touched on politics in sub-Saharan Africa.Beyond the total of articles published, we have also collaborated with various scholars on two special issues -ventures the journal is happy to support.The first, in our Spring issue of 2019, was titled, "Exploring Global Populisms," and sought to center populist analysis in an integrative, broad context.The second, which appeared in the Fall issue of 2020, was titled, "Assessing Populism at Europe's Margins."It aimed at understanding populism outside of the Western European context.Both these were exceptional issues and highlighted aspects of populism that often escape notice.As an aside, let me note that we are always interested in exploring special issues with collaborators.While I don't want to limit anyone's creativity, I would note that two obvious regions that are under-explored, at least in terms of submissions to our journal, are sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.That said, issues of communication, globalization, psychology, among many others, seem ripe for fuller exploration in a special issue.If you have ideas, get in touch.Let's see what we can work out

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