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Partecipazione e conflitto
ISSN: 1972-7623 (print)
ISSN: 2035-6609 (online)
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609--
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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.

The NEW SERIES of PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO starts in 2014. Every issue is published in English, available in electronic and open access version. Anyhow in the Archives section it is possible to consult the contents of all issues published since 2008 accessing abstracts and previews of every article from the webpage of the Old Publisher.

The Journal is published in three issues for year (March, July, and November).

PACO is rated CLASS A by the Italian Academic Research Evaluation Agency (Anvur) for the area 14 (Sociology and Political Sciences).

PACO is a Diamond Journal. After a rigorous double blind peer review process, publication is free of charge.

Access to the journal is free but REGISTRATION on the website allows to receive every news from PACO.

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Current Issue

Vol. 19, No. 1 (2026). Special issue on: "Communicative Resilience: Civil Society's Response to Information Disorders"

Guest Editors: Dafne Calvo and Maria Iranzo Cabrera

Published: 17-03-2026

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