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Letter to CJPS-RCSP Readers and the Canadian Political Science Community

On the occasion of a new English-language editorial team taking over the direction of the Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique and the French-language editorial team agreeing to another three-year term, we would like to introduce the new team and convey our collective vision for the future of the Journal. First, we would like to acknowledge and thank the outgoing English-language editorial team from the University of Calgary: Co-editor Brenda O’Neill, Assistant Editors Antonio Franceschet and Jack Lucas, Book Review Editor Melanee Thomas, Elizabeth Pando (Editorial Assistant), Meagan Cloutier (Social Media Assistant) and Connor Molineaux (Book Review Assistant); and the outgoing Editorial Assistant of the French-language editorial team, Éléna Choquette. Over the past three years, they have maintained the high levels of scholarly excellence expected of the Journal and have adroitly navigated the uncertain waters of Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing. We also thank the members of the Search Committee of the 2020–2023 English-language editorial team and the CPSA Executive Committee and Board of Directors for entrusting us with the Journal for the next three years. The new English-language editorial team will consist of four scholars from the University of Western Ontario. Cameron Anderson will serve as the Englishlanguage Co-editor, Christopher Alcantara and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy as Assistant Editors and Martin Horak as Book Review Editor. Megan Payler will serve as Editorial Assistant and Shanaya Vanhooren will serve as Book Review and Social Media Assistant. The French-language Co-editor, Mélanie Bourque, has renewed her editorial mandate, and French-language Book Review Editor Christopher Cooper will complete his mandate with the SQSP. Both are pleased to continue in their present positions. Anthony Weber will serve as Editorial Assistant supporting the French-language team. The new English-language team is honoured to assume leadership and administration of the CJPS-RCSP, which has been the flagship publication of the Canadian Political Science Association for over 50 years. We intend to maintain the longstanding scholarly standards of the Journal and initiate some strategic changes that we believe will broaden the readership of the CJPS-RCSP and strengthen its reputation within and beyond the discipline. In what follows, we highlight some of the proposed changes to be implemented over the next three years. To reflect the evolution of the discipline within Canada and its changing political landscapes, we have slightly revised the Journal’s Vision Statement to read: