Short answers, pulled from the story.
John W. Burgess and George A. Plimpton founded Political Science Quarterly in 1886. Burgess served as the first president of the Academy of Political Science while Plimpton operated as a publisher based in New York.
Demetrios James Caraley took control of Political Science Quarterly in 1973. He guided the journal through forty-three years of leadership until his departure in 2020.
Journal Citation Reports assigned an impact factor of 2.675 to Political Science Quarterly in 2020. This score placed the publication at number 60 among 183 journals within the Political Science category.
Each standard issue of Political Science Quarterly contains five or six original research articles. The format also accommodates up to forty book reviews alongside those primary studies.
Robert Y. Shapiro now serves as editor-in-chief of Political Science Quarterly following the departure of Demetrios James Caraley. Shapiro maintains an active role at Columbia University while overseeing current editorial decisions.