The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) publishes cutting edge work in political economy (or how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system interact and influence each other) from an historical perspective. The journal serves a latent community that exists mostly in the Political Science and Economics communities. In recent years, a larger and larger group of political scientists have been doing quantitative-historical work that involves political economy. Over the same timespan, in Economics, economic historians have increasingly focused on political-economy topics and taken seriously the “politics” in that research. Given the boundaries that typically exist across academic disciplines, these two groups of scholars rarely talk to one another or read each other’s work. The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) will actively work to get the two groups in dialogue.
Article types and word counts for this journal are available on the About this journal page. Please see the article types and word counts section for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.
Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper.
Peer review type
Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.
Open access options
This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.
Accepted languages
This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.
Accepted submission files
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format. LaTeX files can also be used but only if an accompanying PDF document is provided.
