About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Journal
Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società (New Authoritarian Regimes and Democracies: Law, Institutions, Society), or NAD-DIS, is an open access academic journal published twice a year. Articles are peer-reviewed.
The goal of NAD-DIS is to study historical, institutional, and legal phenomena in geopolitical regions characterized by highly dynamic and extremely complex ethno-linguistic, historical, religious, and socio-economic structures. Such complexity has a direct impact on legal and political developments, hence the need for a multidisciplinary approach.
The origin of the project
The journal aims to contribute to the national and international scholarly debate on political, institutional, and socio-economic developments taking place primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, Asia, and Latin America.
This project has its roots in the legal and institutional specificity of these areas compared to Euro-Atlantic history, culture and values. In fact, Western legal and cultural models have been a constant reference point for the countries of the regions under study, both in a positive and negative sense, whether imposed or freely imitated.
The journal will reflect the multidisciplinary composition of its editorial board. Contributions will focus on perspectives from constitutional and comparative law, philosophy of law, political history, comparative politics, political philosophy, and political and economic geography. Topics to be explored include: constitutional developments; elections and political parties; national and international courts; relations between secularism and religion, politics and economics; energy, environment and natural resources; regional integration; migration policies; corruption and organized crime; post-conflict justice; minority protection; indigenous peoples.
Not limiting its scope to the above list, the journal will also focus on providing a general theoretical framework of contemporary political regimes (democratic decline, new authoritarianism, hybrid regimes, etc.).
Peer Review Process
Papers are subject to a "double-blind peer review" process, based on the anonymous submission of articles to two recognized experts in the relevant scientific field. The review process is carried out by filling in special forms, the format of which is known to the authors and which are kept by the Editorial Board. Contributions other than articles are subject to an internal peer-review process carried out by the members of the Editorial Board and/or the Scientific Board. The list of referees is maintained and regularly updated by the NAD-DIS Editorial Board.
In case of disagreement between the two anonymous reviewers, the paper will be sent to a third reviewer. At the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief, submissions from well-known scholars will not be peer-reviewed. This will be explicitly stated in the text.
Publication Frequency
NAD-DIS is published twice a year. Essays, chronicles, article reviews, case commentaries, and other contributions are published as they go through the peer-review process. Contributions are collected in two issues. Deadlines for each issue are June 30 (No. 1) and December 31 (No. 2 of the year).
APC
NAD-DIS does not charge authors for the submission and publication of manuscripts (APC).
Archiving
The University of Milan has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
The journal has enabled the PKP PN (Preservation Network) plugin, in order to preserve digital contents through LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) project.
Plagiarism
Editors have a duty to act promptly in case of errors and misconducts, both proven and alleged. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers. In case of errors in articles or in the publication process, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, appropriate steps will be taken, following the recommendations, guidelines and flowcharts from COPE. Corrections will happen with due prominence, including the publication of an erratum (errors from the publication process), corrigendum (errors from the Author(s)) or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work. Retracted papers will be retained online, and they will be prominently marked as a retraction in all online versions, including the PDF, for the benefit of future readers.
Artificial Intelligence
NAD-DIS acknowledges the importance of artificial intelligence innovations understanding the challenges and opportunities they entail.
Authors who have used artificial intelligence tools in the editing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphical elements of the article, or in the collection and analysis of data, are invited to explicitly declare their use, mentioning the AI tool, the field of application, the search queries used and the date of use, in order to allow reproducibility and verification. The author will remain responsible for the accuracy and correctness of any published content and guarantees compliance with the code of ethics and anti-plagiarism rules.
Authors who have used AI, or AI-assisted tools, are required to include a paragraph at the end of their manuscript, entitled "Declaration on Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process", with the following information:
"During the preparation of this paper the author(s) used [TOOL/SERVICE NAME] on [DD/MM/YYYYY] using the search terms: [SEARCH TERMS] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) have reviewed and edited the content as necessary and take full responsibility for the content of the publication."
Editors are not allowed to upload received manuscripts into artificial intelligence software, in order not to risk compromising privacy and copyright.
Reviewers undertake not to use artificial intelligence tools to evaluate manuscripts in order to guarantee the application of critical thinking and original assessment, as required for this work.
Accepted languages:
Italian, English, French, Spanish. Headings and Abstracts should be in English. Articles in English should have an abstract also in Italian.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial -NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Preprint and postprint version of the articles can be archived anywhere under the same license.
Policy UNIMI Open Access
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Classification
The journal New Authoritarianisms and Democracies. Rights, Institutions and Society (NAD) has been placed since 2019 on the list of "Class A" journals of Area 12 (12/C1 Constitutional Law, 12/D1 Administrative Law, 12/E1 International Law, 12/E2 Comparative Law, 12/E4 European Union Law, 12/H3 Philosophy of Law) and Area 14 (14/A1 Political Philosophy, 14/A2 Political Science, 14/B1 History of Political Doctrines and Institutions, 14/B2 History of International Relations, Non-European Societies and Institutions, 14/C3 Sociology of Political and Legal Phenomena) as updated by the National Agency for the Evaluation of University Research (ANVUR).
