Leviathan

Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft

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About

Leviathan is a journal committed to the idea of social scientific enlightenment and criticism. We publish current contributions in research and political, cultural, economic, philosophical, legal, and media-related debate. It is directed toward a wide audience in the fields of teaching and research, politics and administration, and journalism and media. Representing methodological, disciplinary and political pluralism, the magazine builds bridges between theory, empiricism and political practice.

Leviathan is a peer-reviewed publication and is published by the WZB together with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Max Planck Institut for the study of societies, since March 2012 under the Nomos Verlag imprint.

Editorial duties are in the hands of Eva Deitert, research fellow at the WZB.

Archival volumes of the journal are also available via JSTOR.

ISSN Print 0340-0425
ISSN Online 1861-8588
Published quarterly

Editors

Helmut K. Anheier
Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Reinhard Blomert
Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Katharina Bluhm
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Stephan Bröchler
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht, Berlin, Germany
Claudia Bruns
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Hubertus Buchstein
Universität Greifswald, Germany
Dorothea Gädeke
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Tatjana Hörnle
Max-Planck-Institut, Freiburg, Germany
Monika Krause
London School of Economics, UK
Dorothea Kübler
Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany
Bernd Ladwig
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Philipp Lepenies
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Philip Manow
Universität Siegen, Germany
Steffen Mau
Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften, Göttingen, Germany
Martin Saar
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Philipp Staab
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Dagmar Simon
EVACONSULT, Berlin, Germany
Ute Tellmann
Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany
Leon Wansleben
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln, Germany
Michael Zürn
Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany

Editorial Board

Ulrich Bröckling
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Roland Czada
Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Christoph Deutschmann
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Anke Hassel
Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Hans Joas
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Helmut König
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Christoph Möllers
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Friedbert Rüb
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Dieter Senghaas
Universität Bremen, Germany

Editorial Office

Eva Deitert

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 30 / 25491 536
E-Mail: leviathan@nomos-journals.de

Please submit your manuscript via email to: leviathan@nomos-journals.de.

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Guidelines for Authors

Open Access Policy

Leviathan is an open access journal. All articles in Leviathan are published under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Authors of articles in Leviathan are not charged any fees (i.e. no article processing charges or submission charges).

More about attribution CC BY 4.0 International under Deed – Attribution 4.0 International – Creative Commons and about the general Open Access policy of Nomos Verlag can be found here.

Authors publishing in this journal retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

Publications Ethics

Peer Review Process

All articles published in Leviathan are subject to a double-blind peer review process. The review process takes 4 to 5 months on average. Editors of the journal as well as external researchers act as reviewers. The reviewers are renowned professors and postdoctoral researchers in their respective specialist area, thus ensuring the journal’s scientific profile and academic standard. Manuscripts are generally evaluated by two reviewers; a third reviewer is consulted in case of disagreement. The reviewers’ recommendations are communicated to the editorial staff, authors receive excerpts of the evaluation explaining the reviewers’ decision and, if applicable, suggestions for revision. If a plagiarism is suspected the article is being re-examined and, in case the suspicion is confirmed, the submission is rejected. Reviewers are expected to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, for example when they know the author personally. In this case a new reviewer will be assigned to the submission.

A statement on the general editorial policy and publication ethics of Nomos Publishing is available here.