INDES - magazine for politics and society

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INDES - magazine for politics and society

description Scientific periodical
language German
publishing company Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
First edition October 1, 2011
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief Matthias Micus
editor Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research
Web link indes-online.de
Article archive October 2011 ff.
ISSN 2191-995X

INDES - Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft is a socio-political journal that has been published quarterly by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht since October 2011 . Is published INDES from Goettingen Institute for Democracy Research . The editor-in-chief is the political scientist Matthias Micus .

In terms of content and style, INDES moves between political science journals (such as From Politics and Contemporary History or newspapers for German and international politics ) and journalistic political magazines (such as Die Zeit or Cicero ).

Professional orientation and authorship

Thematic orientation

Each issue of INDES has a thematic focus, but not all articles have to be dedicated to this. Contributions to the debate represent a topic from controversial perspectives, studies and analyzes illuminate the different aspects and report-like inspections illustrate the whole.

Target audience and concept

INDES is initially aimed at scientists and students from various fields, such as political science , philosophy , sociology , history , social psychology , cultural studies , communication studies and others.

However, the journal also explicitly targets “political practitioners”, i.e. politicians , advisors , political journalists , public affairs managers and political foundations . In principle, however, INDES also makes particular efforts to address a broader, politically interested public. INDES would like to achieve this in particular through the aesthetic demands and the emphasis on understandable and interestingly written articles .

Each issue contains a series of photos or images that aesthetically implement the respective focus topic. Research results are presented in a comprehensible and interesting way, without trivializing or shortening the arguments. INDES wants to scientifically underpin the current but sometimes less profound interpretations of the journalistic daily and weekly press and thereby counteract hasty media judgments. Stylistically, new ways of conveying science are explored.

Voices on INDES

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung sees INDES as a generally understandable alternative to the usual political science publications : "The magazine for politics and society [...] is aimed at those who are professionally or as citizens interested in politics, to whom the common language of political science says nothing or everything."

Christian Bommarius suspects in the Frankfurter Rundschau that INDES, along with other scientific disciplines, should specifically address political scientists : “'A survey from 1980 showed that political scientists find the developments in their research area less exciting than researchers from 31 other disciplines.' That would change quickly if politics were always written as well-founded, clear and without terminological bombast as in Indes. "

In Germany Kultur keeps Stephan memory states: "Franz Walter is a valued in many editorial writer. He could have put his thoughts on the new protest mentalities in Germany and Great Britain into a daily newspaper or on the radio. ” He believes that the processing of materials in this form is only possible through “ the medium of the cultural magazine ” .

Tom Strohschneider writes about the content of INDES in the weekly newspaper Der Freitag : “Of course, all of this does not make the 'new generation of meaningful, transfer-gifted social scientists' or the 'new culture of writing', which INDES sets itself as a high claim to justify has. ” However, he “ also sees no reason to 'throw INDES on the wall', as Franz Walter used to do with the, in his opinion, 'boring' and language-indifferent specialist periodicals of the profession. "

Reference and freely accessible texts

INDES is available in bookshops as well as online from Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . Both single issues and individual articles can be ordered there. Also, annual subscriptions of INDES are available.

In addition, some texts are extracted from each issue and can be read free of charge on the magazine's homepage . Some articles are also published in longer versions on the blog of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research.

Issues already published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , accessed on May 30, 2012
  2. ↑ see itemization 2
  3. ^ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , accessed on July 28, 2012
  4. ↑ see itemization 2
  5. ^ OV: "Indes, ie but are thought leaders" from November 30, 2011, No. 279, p. N4 in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on May 29, 2012
  6. ↑ Christian Bommarius: “Die Rache der Feuilletonisten” of October 4, 2011, in Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on May 29, 2012
  7. ↑ Stephan Speicher: "Bringing Science and Audience Together" from April 9, 2012, in Deutschlandradio Kultur , accessed on May 29, 2012
  8. ↑ Tom Strohschneider: "The width beyond the ivory tower" of October 5, 2011, in the Friday , accessed on May 29, 2012