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16 Pol. Theory 3 (1988)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa16 and id is 1 raw text is: FROM THE EDITOR W E ARE PLEASED to welcome Tracy Strong to the Executive Editorial Committee. Tracy brings a distinctive perspective to political theory. His work on Nietzsche and allied issues deserves the excellent reviews it has received. As he has been a reader for several years, this appointment formalizes a relationship already well established. In accord with our six-year rotational system, John Pocock moves off the Committee this year. Not only is Pocock one of the most distinguished theorists in the English-speaking world, his role with this journal has been indispensable to its development during the last decade and a half. I'm certain that all members of the theory community join the Executive Editorial Committee in thanking him for the advice and support he has provided to Political Theory. The number of journals pertinent to readers and writers in political theory continues to mushroom, partly in response to the growing diversity of theoretical orientations represented today. Not only are some established journals in political science active in this respect (Polity and Political Studies are perhaps notable here), there are journals in philosophy (Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Social Theory and Practice, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, The Review of Metaphysics), journals in literary theory and allied fields (Raritan, Representations, Critical Inquiry, Signs, Diacritics), journals in social and political thought (The History of Political Thought, History and Theory, Theory and Society, The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Political Theory), numerous journals with distinct ideological orientations, and several others which do not fit into this rough and ready scheme of classification. The newest entry is the Journal of Theoretical Politics. In its recent announcement it pledges to provide a forum, which is currently lacking, for the publication of original papers seeking to make genuinely theoretical contributions to the study of politics. While theorists in diverse intellectual traditions are encouraged to submit their work, the journal wants each topic to be treated rigorously and analytically, and it will not publish articles on the history of political thought. It is a pleasure to encounter such a blunt declaration of Theoretical Ideology; it will be interesting to observe (from a distance, no doubt) this new 3

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