Journal
Politics and the Life Sciences
Official Journal of APLS
Politics and the Life Sciences is a biannual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with a global audience. PLS is the official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (APSA) Related Group and an American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Member Society. PLS is indexed in BIOONE, JSTOR, Academic Search Premier, International Political Science Abstracts, The Psychology and the Behavioral Science Collection, and Social Sciences Abstracts.
The PLS topic range is broad, including evolutionary and laboratory insights into political behavior, including political violence, from group conflict to war, terrorism, and torture; political analysis of life-sciences research, health policy, environmental policy, and biosecurity policy; and philosophical analysis of life-sciences problems, such as bioethical controversies. Typical contributors include political scientists and political behaviorists; biosecurity and international-security experts; life scientists, clinicians, health-policy scholars, and bioethicists; moral and evolutionary philosophers; environmental scientists and ecological economists; political-behavioral and environmental historians; science-policy scholars and historians of science; and legal scholars.
PLS is published in March and September BY ALLEN PRESS. Papers succeeding in peer review are published online before they appear in print, after emerging from the editing process. These papers are available in full-text format for subscribers, APLS members, journalists on request, and for the general public in special cases. Scholarly papers published online before appearing in print will continue to bear their online date when included in the next available print issue.