 It was established in 1989 and the editors-in-chief are Torun Dewan (London School of Economics) and John W. Patty (Emory University).The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier, International Political Science Abstracts, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.837, ranking it 70th out of 161 journals in the category "Political Science".