URGENT NOTICE

Due to the migration to a cloud-based environment and the transition to a new and updated publishing platform, new submissions to Partecipazione e Conflitto will be temporarily suspended from 19 March to 19 April 2026.

During this period, manuscripts already in progress or currently under review will be handled outside the platform. Authors may therefore contact one of the journal editors directly or, in the case of special issues, the relevant guest editors.

We also encourage all collaborators to complete, where possible, any pending activities on the current platform before the migration begins.

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Partecipazione e Conflitto [Participation and Conflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies.

PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action.

Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level.

All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension.

The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.

The NEW SERIES of PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO starts in 2014. Every issue is published in English, available in electronic and open access version. Anyhow in the Archives section it is possible to consult the contents of all issues published since 2008 accessing abstracts and previews of every article from the webpage of the Old Publisher. By clicking the following link you can read some more information about Our History.

• PACO is a Diamond Journal. After a rigorous double blind peer review process, publication is free of charge