The Policy Studies Organization publishes twelve journals in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell and Berkeley Electronic Press. The journals and their editorial offices are Policy and Internet (University of Oxford), Review of Policy Research (Ryerson University), Digest of Middle East Studies (University of Wisconsin), Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy (Pacific Disaster Center, University of Hawaii), Policy Studies Journal (University of Colorado, Denver), Politics & Policy (Universidad IberoAmericana, Mexico City), Latin American Policy (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City), Asian Politics & Policy (University of the Philippines), World Medical and Health Policy (George Mason University), Poverty & Public Policy (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Policy Studies Yearbook (University of Oklahoma) and Proceedings of the PSO (PSO Headquarters, Washington DC).

The PSO also publishes three book series on: Studies on Public Policy, Middle East Classics and Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development, in cooperation with Lexington books (Rowland & Littlefield), and hosts the  annual Dupont Summit on Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Issues, a December conference in Washington DC at the Carnegie Institution. Beginning in February 2011, the PSO will host the Middle East Dialogue at the Washington Club.

Yearbook
A Directory of Policy Scholars.
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In 2010, individual subscribers to PSO publications receive from Wiley-Blackwell six issues of Politics & Policy, six issues of Policy Studies Journal, including a special  double issue that is a yearbook of policy research and studies around the world, and four issues of Asian Politics & Policy. They already receive six issues a year of the Review of Policy Research. Additionally, they receive two issues of Latin American Policy and the Digest of Middle East Studies, our newest journals. They also have access to our four new journals with Berkeley Electronic Press: Policy and Internet, Poverty and Public Policy, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy and World Medical and Health Policy, which are quarterly. 

Your membership now permits online access to the journals through Wiley InterScience, which provides access to over three million articles and a service that includes back issues of all PSO journals. Your membership also offers substantial discounts for the PSO books published by Lexington Books, including the fourteen titles in our Studies on Public Policy, the growing list of our volumes in Middle East Classics, and our series on Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development. And more good things are coming, so the message is to join or renew now! This is made by simply going to the Wiley-Blackwell renewal page. 

Members of PSO have been able to use the offices in Washington as a base for their visits, and many PSO members have participated in PSO panels and receptions at meetings of the American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Members also have had the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping build the PSO endowments with APSA, SPSA and MPSA that bring students and scholars to the annual meetings of those organizations.

PSO is committed to social responsibility, believing that all organizations should contribute positively to the environment.Publications are printed on recycled paper by union labor, and products are purchased from concerns whose employment practices are progressive.We support diversity, encourage feedback from all those with whom we deal, and cooperate with Wiley-Blackwell, Berkeley Electronic Press and other partners to donate or provide publications at much reduced cost to developing countries. More than 600 institutions in 60 developing countries receive our publications free of charge.

Those of you who have visited since the Policy Studies Organization moved to Washington know that 1527 New Hampshire Avenue is a large place -- and if you have books, political memorabilia, or even antiques! their gift to the headquarters would be permanently acknowledged on the website and would be tax deductible. We have lots of empty shelves, so if you are crowded, let us help! A note to our executive director, David Merchant , will certainly elicit a prompt reply.

If you want to publish in the PSO journals or book series, take a look at the specific journals and our books so you have an idea of what the editors want and contact them directly.

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