Fortieth Anniversary Contribution The Career of a Generalist Journal

It is hard from this distance to re-envisage the world into which the British Journal of Political Science was born in 1971. There may or may not have been appreciably fewer political scientists in the world back then.1 Certainly, anyway, political scientists are currently much more career-active than they were in the early 1970s. You notice that in the numbers attending conferences. The size of the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings has trebled over the period – and with it the number of conference papers people are trying to place in journals. You notice that in general expectations concerning productivity.