Note from the Editors: Celebrating Politics & Policy's Half‐Centenary

Welcome to the first issue of Politics & Policy's 50th volume! From its inception in 1973, this distinguished journal has transitioned from Georgia Political Science Journal, Southeastern Review, Policy (P&P) at turn millennium. In all incarnations, P&P prioritized rigorous original research and sound contribution political science policy studies presented exceptionally clear, elegant, jargon-free language. The result is a collection over 1000 peer-reviewed articles published last 49 years—all which make politics issues yesterday, today, tomorrow accessible, thought-provoking, as academically meticulous they are useful. It seems nowhere near decade ago that we introduced 40th volume (Norman, 2012) with journal's move online-only publication concomitant tips for authors on “Maximizing Journal Article Citation Online: Readers, Robots, Research Visibility.” 10 years have seen major transition scholarly online awareness how it reflected academic articles, well large increase quality quantity submissions. To celebrate P&P's half-century, wish highlight evolution few decades. Doing so will not only offer an interesting snapshot transformation. also identify important elements within sciences more generally. Therefore, addition your usual article submissions falling under our customary aims scope,1 especially invite you submit pieces reviewing one or eras publications 20 years, subfield time some journal. How approaches, arguments, and/or methodological foci differed select? What can be gleaned change trends concerning subject matter applied discipline generally? We covering several spanning these other questions Note Editors each year. editors terms submission trends, contributor locations worldwide, special topic proposals, instance, certainly enhanced by in-depth systematic review essays shorter commentary synopses past area. Taken together, thus anticipate retrospective history promises own right useful mapping areas future research. hope enjoy which, now customary, span multitude comparative international perspective. issue, traverse subfields energy infrastructure (You et al., 2022), public service experts Middle East (Peters 2022) China (Shen 2020), environmental accidents (Zang, natural resource conservation United States (Dunning, Africa (Ayanoore Hickey, referendum rules New Zealand (McKay, problems South Asian Association Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (Bishwakarma Zongshan, 2022). Keep safe ongoing pandemic look forward continued reviews (which receive expedited peer review) https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/polpol