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Policy Quarterly

Policy Quarterly is a free public policy journal co-produced by the IGPS and the School of Government.

Policy Quarterly (PQ) is targeted at anyone interested in public issues, including public servants, politicians and their staff and a wide variety of professionals, as well as the general public. Its succinct articles and informal style are intended to make the journal accessible to busy non-specialist readers.

Articles from the current issue of PQ, as well as from previous issues, are fully searchable through the Victoria University of Wellington Open Journal System (OJS).

  • All Policy Quarterly back issues are available on the OJS site. Users can simply click the ‘archives’ link to access them.
  • Article PDFs can be viewed and downloaded. Once you have found an article of interest, look for the PDF icon to view the full text.
  • Users can search by author name or keyword. Click the ‘search’ icon. Article metadata and text is also fully searchable.

Policy Quarterly on OJS

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