Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

The Editorial office for Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is based in the Crawford School at The Australian National University in Canberra. Professor Tom Kompas, Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy, is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Professor Kompas is supported by a group of Editors and Society Fellows.

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies has funding support of the aid agency of the Australian Government, AusAID, and commissions research in areas of particular interest to its Editors and AusAID.

Outreach activities are highlighted on Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Online. Policy papers are issued as part of an associated program of dissemination and outreach activities, which includes executive in-country seminars and the annual conference of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society.

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is the flagship journal of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. It is a peer-reviewed journal that targets research in policy studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, across a discipline focus that includes economics, political science, governance, development and the environment. Specific themes of recent interest include health and education, aid, migration, inequality, poverty reduction, energy, climate and the environment, food policy, public administration, the role of the private sector in public policy, trade, foreign policy, natural resource management and development policy.

Papers on a range of topics that speak to various disciplines, the region and policy makers are encouraged. The goal of the journal is to break down barriers across disciplines, and generate policy impact. Submissions will be reviewed on the basis of content, policy relevance and readability.

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies aims to to break down barriers across disciplines, and generate policy impact. Authors publishing in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies benefit from:

• Contributing to multidisciplinary research in economic, environmental, social and public policy in Australia, Asia and the Pacific;
• Exposure to influential policymakers in Asia and the Pacific, and throughout the world;
• Publication in a journal led by a world-class multidisciplinary editorial team; and
• Wide and unrestricted international readership in the academic and policy community, via Open Access publication on Wiley Online Library.

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is published online three times a year by Wiley-Blackwell, with all contributions made freely available from Wiley Online Library without restriction. The first issue of the journal will be published in early 2014 and Early View papers (papers published online in advance of their appearance in a print issue) will be made available from September 2013.