About the Journal

Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science (ISSN [online] 2414-6633)  is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal published by the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS). Founded in 2001, Politikon uniquely serves as an international scholarly platform dedicated to students and early-career researchers, while remaining fully open to submissions from scholars at all career stages.

Politikon’s distinctiveness lies in its combination of rigorous scholarly standards with developmental support for emerging authors, including free copy-editing and accessible editorial guidance. Through this model, the journal elevates promising early-career research and introduces new voices and perspectives into the academic debate.

The journal welcomes high-quality submissions across all major subfields of Political Science and periodically publishes special issues on timely and significant themes.

As a diamond open access journal, Politikon ensures free global access to all published work and encourages broad dissemination and citation of its content.

Current Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2025)
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In this issue, Laura Minguzzi and Giuseppe Borriello investigate how the contrasting digital strategies of Elly Schlein and Stefano Bonaccini shaped leadership dynamics during the 2023 Partito Democratico primaries. Francesco Lionetto examines the EU’s solidarity contribution on surplus energy profits, arguing that the measure reflects continuity rather than a transformative shift in EU fiscal integration. Muhammad Anugrah Utama analyzes Dutch apologies for colonial violence in Indonesia, showing how selective memory and forms of “colonial aphasia” impede a genuine reckoning with the past.

The Conversations section marks the editorial debut of Marianna Prysiazhnyuk, the journal’s new Conversations Editor. Appropriately, this section is dedicated to the future-oriented theme Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, presenting a set of concise essays that probe emerging democratic dilemmas—from AI-driven disinformation and algorithmic sovereignty to surveillance, access to information, and linguistic inequality. The format is especially well suited to areas where conventional academic research is still nascent, enabling authors to chart conceptual terrain and anticipate political risks before they fully materialize.

Together, the contributions in this issue explore how political actors and institutions navigate digital transformation, crisis governance, and contested historical narratives, revealing the evolving pressures on democratic systems in Europe and beyond. The issue concludes with two book reviews that extend these debates, addressing policy responsiveness and inequality as well as youth political engagement in authoritarian contexts.

Published: 2025-12-04

Full Issue

Research articles

Conversations

  • The Ape with Silicon Eyes Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Marianna Prysiazhnyuk
    69-72
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.CON00

  • AI’s Impact on Access to Information in Democracies

    Julian Neylan
    73-75
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.61.CON1

  • Generative AI as a Disinformation Tool “The Hidden Sound of Things Approaching”

    Marios D. Dikaiakos
    76-80
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.61.CON3

  • Algorithmic Colonialism AI, Language Misrepresentation, and Democracy in Africa

    Meriam Hssaini
    81-83
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.61.CON4

  • From Human Sovereignty to Algorithmic Sovereignty The Political Challenge of the Digital Age

    Laly Warnier
    84-85
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.CON5

  • Democracy’s Operating System On Efficiency, Resilience, and the Quiet Power of Procedure

    Kevin W. Settles
    86-88
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.CON6

  • Expert Foresight on AI-Driven Disinformation Findings from the ATHENA Mini-Delphi Study

    Pedro Peres Cavalcante
    89-91
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.61.CON8

  • AI Surveillance The Panopticon Reimagined

    Hninn Thanlwin Thit
    92-95
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.61.CON7

Book reviews

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