Focus and Scope
The Journal of Governance, Law, and Public Policy publishes scholarly articles that examine the interrelationship between governance, law, and public policy. The journal focuses on the dynamics of government, legal systems, and public policy, with particular attention to Southeast Asia, while also welcoming comparative and global perspectives.
The journal encourages theoretical, empirical, and methodological studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, as well as interdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences
The main areas covered by the journal include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of governance, law, and public policy in Southeast Asia and other regions
- National public policy development, formulation, implementation, and evaluation processes
- Comparative studies of public policy, governance, and legal systems
- Bureaucracy and public administration development
- Decentralization and regional autonomy
- Public policy and administrative reform
- Economic policy and public sector policy
- Collaborative governance, dynamic governance, digital governance, and e-government
- Fiscal governance and public financial management.
- Constitutional law and administrative law.
