PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO

PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO (Participation and Conflict) is an international journal based in Italy and specialising in social and political studies. 

PaCo publishes research on the transformations of politics and its key actors — political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, trade unions and related collective actors — with particular attention to the dynamics of participation. It focuses both on conventional forms of individual and collective engagement and on protest-oriented repertoires of action. The journal also devotes specific attention to the transformation of contemporary political systems, examining processes of democratisation as well as the emergence of new forms of governance at local, subnational and supranational levels. These processes are situated within the broader transnationalisation of social, political and economic dynamics, while maintaining due attention to the continuing relevance of the nation-state. The journal welcomes innovative studies marked by strong methodological rigour and grounded in the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions to the social and political sciences.

PaCo is a full open access journal: all content is freely available without charge to readers, and articles are published under a Creative Commons licence with no fees for authors (Diamond Open Access).