Lectio Socialis

Diamond open access journal of political science since 2017. Free for authors and readers. Indexed in DOAJ and TR Dizin.

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Lectio Socialis, a fee-free political science journal, is now governed by a Charter that hands it to an Independent Scientific Board its founder cannot reshape. 157 scholars in 56 countries commented on the draft.

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From the archive: Deniz Dinç compares Russophone minorities in Kazakhstan and Latvia. Authoritarian Kazakhstan integrated Russian speakers; democratic Latvia's citizenship and language laws left many outside.

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How did the 2014 and 2022 sanctions reach Russian households? Arthur, Adebayo & Quainor find far larger price and food-affordability shocks after 2022, a period that also brought war. Farming regions were hit hardest but recovered fastest.

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How did a French popular newspaper picture Morocco on the eve of the protectorate? Ibtissam Lamoune reads Le Petit Journal's illustrations (1907–1911): occupation shown as protection, domination as civilization.

https://t.co/kOUsn4KFsN #polisci

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Cumhuriyetimizin 103. yılı kutlu olsun. Egemenliğin kayıtsız şartsız millete ait olduğu ilkesi üzerine kurulan Cumhuriyetimizi saygı ve gururla kutluyoruz. #CumhuriyetBayramı

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Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye, proclaimed on 29 October 1923. Lectio Socialis celebrates the Republic and the principle on which it rests: sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation. #29Ekim

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Delighted and honoured to announce that Prof. @emretoros and I have been appointed Editors-in-Chief of Turkish Studies @tandfonline @RoutledgeBooks

Proud to be the journal’s first Turkish Editors-in-Chief!

Editorial and Advisory Boards will be announced soon.

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This week is #OpenAccessWeek, and its 2026 theme is "The Cost of Knowledge". For our authors and readers the cost is zero: no fee to read, no fee to publish. That is diamond open access, and it is the only model Lectio Socialis uses.

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From the archive: Celal Oral Özdemir reads the far right as a triad. The party supplies resources, the movement street legitimacy, the leader binds them, and together they reshape democratic institutions from within.

https://t.co/42hYdsHCT0

#polisci #FarRight #LectioSocialis

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How many fewer parliamentary than presidential ballots are cast when Türkiye holds both elections together? Erdi Topçuoğlu (@TopcuogluErdi) finds the provincial gap narrowed from 2018 to 2023, and in 2023 it was lower where alliance partners were strong.

https://t.co/GamM48RmbZ

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Welcome to Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt (University of Málaga), who joins @FranBellido92 as Associate Editor of our Political Thought, Normative Theory and Ethics desk. His work runs from the demagogues of ancient Athens to today's challenges to constitutional democracy.

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Is AI starting a new arms race? Orhan Göktepe (@OrhanGoktepe1) argues that AI multiplies existing military power rather than replacing it, shifts great-power rivalry toward data, chips and computing, and is outpacing the rules meant to govern it.

https://t.co/VANoJrhqpM