Testimonials

PSQ is written for a wide audience of informed citizens. Among its readers are members of Congress and the executive branch, state and local officials, newspaper, magazine and TV editors and commentators, lawyers and business leaders--as well as political scientists, historians and economists. Read what some of them have to say about Political Science Quarterly:

"I find your journal as provocative as ever. With each issue, I never cease to marvel at the quality — and readability — of the articles you assemble. PSQ is my companion whenever I travel."
James L. Sundquist
The Brookings Institution

"The articles and book reviews in PSQ are intelligent, timely, and well written. They range over many vital topics. I find much to engage my interest in every issue."
Theda Skocpol
Harvard University

"Political Science Quarterly is for many of us subscribers the place political science meets contemporary government and politics. ... It is the journal we like to read."
Frank J. Sorauf
University of Minnesota

"When I want a taste of solid social science scholarship that is stimulating, relevant and enjoyable to read, I invariably turn to Political Science Quarterly. It always offers a rich array of articles and book reviews that scrutinize the political landscape from a multitude of intriguing perspectives. PSQ manages to convey a sense of wholeness of the realm of social science that has become all too rare in this age of excessive specialization. "
Doris A. Graber
University of Illinois at Chicago

"Political Science Quarterly is an efficient way for those of us involved in the policy-making process to keep abreast of a wide range of relevant issues. Its objective and highly readable analysis both provokes thought and furthers understanding."
Robert D. Reischauer
President, Urban Institute
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office

"[Its] penetrating essays by first-rate scholars remind us of what a vital contribution Political Science Quarterly has made to our understanding of politics and government. In the midst of unprecedented turbulence in American political life ... [it] could not be more timely."
Walter Dean Burnham
University of Texas

"Political Science Quarterly is simply the best general journal in the field. ... It belies the popular conception that scholarly writings on government are all sterile and trivial exercises in quantitative mystification."
Richard Betts
Columbia University

"PSQ is unique.... It is readable. It is written in English and not in mathematics. Further, it is without the behaviorist jargon which has corrupted much of academic thought. It deals with questions and issues of actual value to me."
William Proxmire
United States Senate, 1957-1989