Abstract
With this issue of Global Social Policy (GSP), a new team takes on the responsibility for editing the journal. The incoming co-editors are Daniel Béland (Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy), Alexandra Kaasch (University of Bielefeld) and Huck-ju Kwon (Seoul National University). Rianne Mahon (Balsillie School of International Affairs) will continue as a member of the editorial team. The new team thus reflects an important element of continuity, and will benefit from the diverse national origins and research backgrounds the editors will bring to their work. The team will be strengthened by the addition of new regional editors (Jeremy Seekings for Africa, M. Ramesh for East Asia, Juliana Martinez-Franzoni for Latin America, Siri Hettige for South East Asia and digest editor James Canonge with his global team). The editors will also be supported by a renewed editorial board whose members can draw on diverse fields of social policy and regional expertise.
At this stage, we would like to acknowledge the two outgoing co-editors, Gerard W. Boychuk (Balsillie School of International Affairs) and Stephen McBride (McMaster University), for their outstanding contribution to the journal. We would like to thank them for hard work and their unflappable dedication to GSP. We also thank outgoing Managing Editor Sonya Zikic for her excellent, highly professional contribution, and the dedicated GSP digest team, particularly, its editorial assistant and contributor Branka Marijan. A new Managing Editor will be appointed soon.
As the incoming editors of GSP, we invite social policy scholars and practitioners from all disciplinary backgrounds and regions of the world to consider submitting their most recent papers to the journal. We welcome contributions dealing with social policy and social politics issues as they engage with globalisation, multilevel governance and transnational policy diffusion and learning. We are interested in studies that focus on the engagement of international non-governmental organisations and transnational advocacy coalitions, as well as international organisations and other global and regional actors in social policy. Studies focusing on particular countries as well as comparative papers are also welcome, as long as they explicitly deal with global issues and processes. Provided that contributions engage with such issues and processes, we are open to a broad range of epistemologies, research methods and theoretical perspectives.