Philippine Journal of Public Policy

The Philippine Journal of Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Development Perspectives serves as a platform to inform, improve, and interrogate public policy in the Philippines and Asia. The journal encourages an interdisciplinary approach to public policy issues, including, but not limited to, institutional practices, state legislation, governance, and the activities of non-state actors, from civil society to the private sector, that shape or inform public policy (e.g. grassroots mobilization)

The journal publishes papers with an eye towards articulating, improving, refining, critiquing, and/or providing complements and/or alternatives to policies and practices that can be implemented by governments, institutions, and/or various stakeholders. We welcome papers that cover at least one of, but need not explicitly invoke, Andrew Heywood’s four areas of policy interventions: policy initiation, policy formulation, policy implementation, and policy evaluation.

The journal welcomes full-length articles, essays, and book reviews on the following topics or themes, including but not limited to the following: 

• • Politics, Governance, and Public Administration
  • Economics, Finance, and Budget
  • Infrastructure, Public Works, and Transportation
  • Flooding, Disasters, and Climate Change
  • Environmental and Natural Resource Management (Forestry, Marine, etc.)
  • Foreign Relations
  • Security and Human Rights
  • Engineering, Design, and Urban Planning
  • Digitalization and Technology
  • Communication
  • Development and Security
    
  • Labor and Social Protection
  • Mental Health
  • Law and Legal Education
  • Gender
  • Tourism
  • Humanities and Public Policy
  • Industrial Policy
  • Agriculture and Agrarian Issues; Food Security

Aiming for as broad a readership as possible, the journal encourages papers that, despite its theoretical/technical complexity, are written in such a way that can be understood, if not appreciated, even by scholars and stakeholders outside a particular discipline.

Comparative studies between the Philippines and other countries, preferably Asia, are welcome, as well as research that cuts across themes and disciplines. 

• Have a significant policy component
• Elaborate on policy recommendations arising from the data, findings or arguments
• Comply with the standards and elements of academic research, including coherent, structured writing and substantiation of arguments and claims
• Be original in wording and content
  • Overlaps with, and difference from, an author’s existing research must be indicated in the manuscript or cited accordingly. 
• Run between 6,000 and 8,000 words, inclusive of footnotes/endnotes and references
• Must have the following structure
  • Introduction (1-2 pages)
    • Should address what the article contributes to the discourse/discussion of the topic
    • Must include background and rationale of the study (i.e. policy landscape)
    • Include explicit research questions/statement of the argument
    • Method and/or approach to answer the research questions
    • Brief description of policy recommendation
  • Body
    • Include discussion and/or arguments that would lead to answering the research question/
  • Conclusion
  • Policy Recommendations
    • What should be done in the policy sphere? What are the recommended action points and/or ways forward?
• Include in the first page:
  • Abstract (no more than 300 words)
  • A list of six (6) keywords
  • Name, position, affiliation, and email address of the author(s)
• Include the following after the reference section:
  • Acknowledgements (if any)
  • Declaration of Funding and details thereof
    • If none, state, “The author did not declare a conflict of interest.”
  • Declaration of Conflict of Interest
    • If none, state, “The author did not declare a conflict of interest.”

• Comply with the author’s responsibilities and content/general guidelines.

Submissions for this section are solicited, and run for a miminum of 1,000 words. They offer straight-up policy recommendations from public policy luminaries, i.e. people that were/are heavily involved in public policy.

• The journal welcomes reviews of books that are policy-oriented books, shaping, informing, and enriching public policy.
• Reviews must indicate the following details of the book:
  • Title
  • Author/editor
  • Year of publication
  • City and Country of Publication, and Publisher
  • Number of pages
  • ISBN
    
    
• Run between 1,000 and 2,000 words, inclusive of footnotes/endnotes and references.
  
  
• Summarize the book’s arguments, relate it to existing literature, identify contribution(s) therein, and identify any gap/weakness.

1. The text should be double-spaced, set in Times New Roman, 12-point font size, and employ italics rather than underlining (except for URL addresses)
   
   
2. Tables, figures, and charts must be placed in the designated locations in a manuscript, and also sent as separate files and labeled accordingly. Please ensure high-resolution quality.
   
   
3. The first page of the manuscript must already have the following:
   • Title
   • Author’s name, position, and institutional affiliation
   • Email address
   • Abstract and five sets of key words
     
     
4. After the body of the article comes the following:
   • Acknowledgments (if any)
   • Declaration of Funding and details thereof. If none, state, “The author did not declare a conflict of interest.”
   • Declaration of Conflict of Interest. If none, state, “The author did not declare a conflict of interest.”

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All manuscripts (files/photos, etc) and/or inquiries should be addressed and sent to:

Rosalie Arcala Hall, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Philippine Journal of Public Policy
[email protected]

The journal publishes papers once they are approved by the authors, copyedited, and proofread accordingly. Authors of such papers need not wait until the desired number of articles have been met for an issue.