The journal Gobierno y Sociedad is a biannual publication, which is created as an instrument for the dissemination of scientific research produced by the TE and will include completed research, both from nationals and foreigners, in the areas of knowledge of public law and social sciences.

Its targets are academic communities and decision-makers, in the field of democratic institutions and electoral processes.  

Within its editorial production, INED has published works in the areas of research on democracy, citizenship and electoral rights; electoral rules and electoral body; and electoral actors and electoral behavior, which are also available in the institutional repository. These publications adhere to the attributions indicated by Law 5 of 2016, Organic Law of the Electoral Tribunal, in matters of "research, teaching and democratic culture" and functions related to the research area.

The journal will be open to publish research by interested authors, provided that they are framed in the theme of the same and comply with the editorial standards required by the INED for the dissemination of articles.

Editorial Policies:

• Peer review system

*Articles will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and external academic peers. The arbitration process is anonymous, both for reviewers and authors.

*Each article will be reviewed by two specialists in the subject matter the article deals with. If the recommendations of the two reviewers are contradictory, the opinion of a third evaluator will be sought.

*To carry out the review, there is a “review form”, which is filled out by the reviewers.

*The peer review must conclude with the recommendation to publish, not to publish, or to publish with modifications. The recommendation will be communicated to the authors.

*Within 60 days you must receive a response from the magazine regarding the review of the submission.

*When the article requires modifications, the author will have 10 days to make the adjustments. Again the reviewer will have access to the writing for verification, in which case they will have another 10 days.

• Code of ethics

*In order to guarantee good conduct by all actors involved in the publication process, the journal complies with international regulations on ethics; in particular to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

• Plagiarism detection system

*Articles submitted for review will be exposed to similarity analysis using software acquired by the institution, in order to detect matches in the text, showing the sources of the matching content, regardless of language.