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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • I hereby declare that the submitted article does not constitute plagiarism, i.e., it is a work that in no way infringes upon any existing licensing or copyright laws within the meaning of the Act of February 4, 1994, on Copyright and Related Rights (i.e., Journal of Laws 2006, No. 90, item 631) applicable to the whole or any part of the work. It does not infringe upon personal rights protected by applicable law and does not contain data or information that I may have obtained unlawfully.
  • I hereby declare that the article constitutes an original work and that my rights to it are not restricted in any way.
  • I declare that the submitted article has not been published previously and has not been submitted for review to any other academic journal.
  • I declare that the article has been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines posted on the journal’s website at the provided link, and that I am aware that failure to comply with these guidelines may result in the Editorial Board rejecting the text on formal grounds (internal review).
  • I declare that I have acknowledged all individuals who contributed to the creation of my work and that none of the listed authors made a non-substantial contribution to it. Thus, I exclude ghost authorship, fictitious authorship, and honorary authorship in my article. I am also aware of the legal and academic consequences of making a false statement.
  • I declare that I have disclosed all relevant sources of funding for the submitted article.
  • . I declare that I grant the Publisher a free, exclusive license for a period of 5 years to use the Work in all fields of exploitation, in particular those listed in Article 50 of the Act on Copyright and Related Rights: 1. With regard to the fixation and reproduction of the work – the production of copies of the work using a specific technique, including printing, reprography, magnetic recording, and digital techniques. 2. With respect to the distribution of the original or copies on which the work has been fixed – the placing on the market, lending, or renting of the original or copies. 3. With respect to the distribution of the work in a manner other than that specified in point 2—public performance, exhibition, display, reproduction, broadcasting, and rebroadcasting, as well as making the work publicly available so that anyone may have access to it at a place and time of their choosing. The Publisher’s use of the work within the aforementioned fields of exploitation is not limited in terms of quantity or territory. The license is granted by the author for a fixed term of 5 years, and upon the expiration of this term, it converts into a non-exclusive license granted for an indefinite period without the need for the parties to submit additional declarations.

Author Guidelines

The journal Sociological and Political Studies. New Series accepts original texts exclusively; the submitted texts must not be under consideration for publication in any other journals or books.

The journal also publishes texts in English if they are written neatly and are evaluated positively in the usual qualification process. Both Polish and English texts may be rejected by the editorial team due to negligent language. The journal does not charge any fees to authors.

The articles should be submitted electronically as attachments in the MsWord standard (.doc or .docx) to the following e-mail address: socpol.redakcja@is.uw.edu.pl. The articles must have titles (Polish and English), an abstract in English (up to 150 words) as well as up to five keywords in Polish and English (singular nouns or multi-word terms).

The journal also accepts review essays and reviews; these can have a title. The editors do not return texts that had not been ordered. The submitted book reviews should cover publications that are not older than two years, counting from the planned date of publication of a given issue.

The abstract attached to the text should be prepared in the form of a continuous text and contain information about the theoretical background of the argument, its objectives, methods of analysis and the results of empirical research or the conclusions of analysis, if the article is purely theoretical or review-based.

Technical requirements

The authors are kindly requested to comply with the following directives: size A4; font Times New Roman; line spacing 1,5; justified text, margins 25mm; pagination bottom right corner; continuous page numbering; the main title in bold and centred; other titles aligned to the left and in bold. New paragraphs should begin with an indentation.

Tables should be suitably numbered and titled, while graphs numbered and captioned. Pictures, maps, and charts can only be black and white. Tables, maps, and pictures should be appended on separate pages at the end of the text.

The texts should not be signed. The details of the author submitting the text (full name, academic title, affiliation, phone number, postal address, e-mail address) should be attached in a separate file so that anonymity can be ensured. One can also include information about their ORCID profile. Authors should avoid in-text information that could potentially facilitate their identification. References to their own works and publications should be made in third person or impersonally. In case of multi-authored articles we ask that the main author be indicated, with their surname being given as the first one. All authors are obliged to give their e-mail addresses as well as information regarding affiliations (name of the institution and its postal address). We also ask that valid mailing addresses of all authors of a given article be provided.

The submission of a text is tantamount to declaring that the article is an exclusive and original work of the author/s, and any participation of other people who contributed to the writing of the text has been noted, e.g. in a footnote or acknowledgment that would state the character of help obtained (sharing data, devising analytical methods, methodological consultation, etc.)

Suggested bibliography system is the Chicago Manual of Style

Szczepański, Jan (1969), Elementarne pojęcia socjologii. Warszawa: PWN.

Wejland, Andrzej P. (1991), Ukryte porównania. "Studia Socjologiczne", no. 1–2: 9-108.

Kymlicka, Will (1995), Multicultural Citizenship. A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford–New York: Clarendon Press–Oxford University Press.

Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson (2004), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton, NJ–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Stokes, Susan C. (1998), Pathologies of deliberation. In: Deliberative Democracy, edited by Jon Elster. Cambridge, UK–New York: Cambridge University Press.

Shapiro, Ian (2006), Stan teorii demokracji. Translated by Izabela Kisilowska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.

Shklar, Judith N. (1987), The Sources of Social Power: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760 by Michael Mann (review), "The Journal of Interdisciplinary History" 18, no. 2 (1987): 331-332.

With this bibliography system, in-text citations should take one of the two following forms:
… (Szczepański 1969: 31)
or
According to Jan Szczepański (1969: 31), …

If there are footnotes in the text, they should be rare, short, and placed at the bottom of a page.

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