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Reviewer Guidelines

The role of reviewers is to contribute to maintaining the high quality of our journal. Manuscripts are subject to double review, and the reviews are anonymous in both directions.

Requests for making a review are submitted via the SCIndex Assistant system. The deadline for accepting/rejecting a review is seven days from the receipt of the request, and two weeks from the receipt of the request for the review itself. The content of the review is confidential, and must not be disclosed to persons other than the editorial staff of the magazine. If the reviewer realizes at any time that there is any kind of conflict of interest in connection with the work he is to review, he must inform the editorial office as soon as possible. When reviewing the manuscript, the reviewer fills out a review sheet that contains the following fields:

1. Does the content match the title of the manuscript?

2. Actuality, social and scientific importance of the considered topic:3. To what extent did the author clearly indicate the theoretical and methodological approach in the manuscript?

4. Is the manuscript based on contemporary and relevant literature, especially to what extent has the author used the latest results published in scientific journals and proceedings (especially political science journals)?

5. Scientific and social contribution of manuscript. General comment on the quality of  paper:

6. Recommendations for categorizing the manuscript:

  • Original scientific paper
  • Review paper
  • Scientific criticism, polemics and reviews
7. Recommendations on the publication of the manuscript:
  • Publish without changes
  • Publish with minor changes
  • After correction, send the paper to a new round of reviews
  • Reject

8. Additional comments for the editor concerning ethical or some other aspects of the  manuscript, which will help the editor in making a final decision on the further status of the paper.

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