Submission Deadline: September 1, 2026
Please send submissions to Editor David Searcy at david.searcy@swosu.edu.
Any topic relating to Oklahoma politics is welcome. Submissions are subject to blind peer review.
Book Reviews: Book reviews are also welcome if the book relates to Oklahoma, either narrowly or broadly. Please email book reviews to Book Review Editor Christine Pappas at cpappas@ecok.edu.
Oklahoma Politics explores the broad context of politics affecting Oklahoma and its place in the surrounding region. We are especially interested in submissions that bring to bear a variety of methodological, analytical, and disciplinary perspectives on state and local politics of the central-south region of the United States: Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Because politics cannot be thoroughly explored from only a single disciplinary point of view, transdisciplinary and collaborative projects are encouraged.
Though we are the journal of the Oklahoma Political Science Association, we encourage submissions from economists, sociologists, environmental scientists, policymakers, analysts, political scientists, and other scholars and practitioners whose substantive research bears on the politics and issues of the state and region.
Oklahoma Politics is a fully peer-reviewed journal. Each submission receives at least three anonymous reviews and is reviewed by the editors before a decision is made regarding publication.
During the annual Oklahoma Political Science Association Meeting in November, the most current volume of Oklahoma Politics is made available to registered conference participants.
In addition, all previous volumes of Oklahoma Politics, dating back to the first volume published in 1992, are available in full-text format through a searchable online archive.
Click here to access the Oklahoma Politics Digital Archive.