CFP for publication or other deadlineOctober 15, 2026
Ethics and Political Psychology
Public Affairs Quarterly invites normative and conceptual papers exploring connections between ethics, political psychology, and politically significant social-scientific research.
Public Affairs Quarterly
normative papers exploring connections between ethics and political psychology
Although contributions should be normative or conceptual, submissions from practicing social scientists are particularly encouraged. Submissions may raise new philosophical questions from a social-scientific perspective, foster philosophical engagement with concepts from political psychology, or introduce new approaches to normative questions.
The special issue aims to initiate conversations about issues of common normative concern between philosophers and political scientists. Contributions need not be situated within an existing philosophical literature; scholars are encouraged to introduce normatively significant conceptual questions from their own disciplinary perspectives.
Possible Topics
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Opinion change in political beliefs
Bias and heuristics in political reasoning
Polarization, including its causes, dimensions, and normatively significant consequences
Rural or urban consciousness
Symmetries and asymmetries between political parties
Connections between political psychology, democracy, and democratic norms
The psychology of deliberation
Attitudes toward political violence
Contact theory and politically significant relationships
Epistemic deference or resistance to expertise
Trust in media and political institutions
The political psychology of race and gender
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should:
Be 7,000–9,000 words
Be prepared for anonymous review
Be submitted through the Public Affairs Quarterly submission portal
Clearly indicate that the submission is intended for the special issue on Ethics and Political Psychology