Note from the new editors

Abstract

Recent years – especially under the two last editorial teams, following the structural changes of the mid-2010s – have seen IPSR/RISP successfully evolving from the journal of the Italian political science community towards a fully-fledged international journal, which is now established as an international publication venue with a special connection to a national research community. We are deeply honoured to be entrusted with the editorship of IPSR/RISP and to participate in its ongoing and rich history. We would like to take the opportunity to warmly thank the previous editors Filippo Tronconi and Martin Bull as well as the managing editor Elisabetta De Giorgi for their excellent work of the last 4 years. The stakes are high. We aim to follow the developments of the past fewyears: on the onehand, IPSR/RISPwill continue to be themain journalof the Italianpolitical sciencecommunityand the flagship journalof theSISP(Società Italiana di Scienza Politica – Italian Political Science Association), and, on the other, it will continue its way to develop into a fully-fledged international journal both in terms of authorship and content. At the same time,we observe that precisely the success of past editorial teams inplacing the journal in the international landscape now calls for the new challenge of developing an evenmore distinctive identity, inwhat has becomea quite crowded and competitive panoramaof international publication venues. Weaimat suchdifferentiationby focusingonmaking the journal evenmore reactive andaccessible,with a special attention to the needs of early stage researchers. In particular, our changes are animated by the aim to ensure swift article decision and turnover times, and tomake articlesmore easily accessible, so as to increase their impact on the international scientific debate. As a result, we introduce new ideas towards the development of a distinctive IPSR/RISP identity: