Governmentality & Governance Review

Governmentality & Governance Review advances governance studies by joining governmentality analysis with governance approaches. Governmentality analysis provides a framework for understanding rationalities and power techniques. Governance approaches focus on managing institutions, policies, and socio-political dynamics. The journal synthesizes these to offer a more incisive perspective on how state, society, and non-state actors shape, negotiate, and build power configurations today. This integration is the journal’s principal contribution. It links critical theories of subjectivity, power, and social regulation with empirical studies of institutions, public policy, democracy, security, and sustainability. Established governance and political science journals seldom address this explicit combination.

Within this framework, the journal serves as a platform for research on the evolution of government practices. These practices include public administration, institutional reform, democracy, representational politics, digital governance, and the formation of subjectivity. The journal also addresses local governance, state–society relations, eco-governmentality, sustainability policy, conflict resolution, civil security, and strategies for risk management or social control. This interdisciplinary approach welcomes both theoretical and empirical work. These studies explain how governmental rationalities operate, how policies and institutions develop, and how societies respond to changing power dynamics.

Governmentality & Governance Review positions itself as an intellectual forum. It is committed to uncovering epistemic and normative mechanisms behind government phenomena. The journal does not simply describe these phenomena. It welcomes contributions that challenge governance studies’ boundaries, introduce new interpretations of power and administration, and provide deeper insights into the formation and direction of the socio-political world. Submissions should address responsiveness, justice, and sustainability. The Tuah Foundation Jambi's board founded the journal on October 15, 2024, to advance its initiative.

Publication Ethics: The journal strictly adheres to the publication ethics and peer-review standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).