Journal of Democracy

Not to be confused with Democracy (journal).

The Journal of Democracy is a quarterly academic journal established in 1990 and an official publication of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. It covers the study of democracy, democratic regimes, and pro-democracy movements throughout the world.^[1]

Journal of Democracy

Discipline	Political science
Language	English
Edited by	William J. Dobson, Tarek Masoud
Publication details
History	1990–present
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press for the National Endowment for Democracy (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	No
Impact factor	4.66 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Democr.
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ISSN	1045-5736 (print) 1086-3214 (web)
LCCN	90640838
OCLC no.	33892627
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

In addition to scholarly research and analysis, the journal incorporates reports from activists on the ground, updates on elections, and reviews of recent literature in the field. Writers published in the journal have included Václav Havel,^[2][3] the Dalai Lama,^[4] and Zbigniew Brzezinski.^[5][6] The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

The editors of the Journal of Democracy commission most articles but do consider unsolicited articles. The journal does not perform formal peer review on all submissions, but some "are sent to outside scholars or specialists for comments and evaluation."^[7][8]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 4.663 impact factor as of 2021.

See also

• Democratization