Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The purpose of publishing this journal is to disseminate conceptual thoughts or ideas as well as research results that have been achieved in the field of public administration and policy.

The Governance Dynamics Journal specifically focuses on the main problems in the development of public policy science and the field of administration as follows:

• Bureaucracy and Public Administration;
• Decentralization and Regional Autonomy;
• Economic and Public Policy;
• Public Management and Governance;
• Sustainable Development
• Development Issues in Developing Countries;
• Community Development & Empowerment
• Any specific issues in public policy and management

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by editorial staff. the manuscript evaluated by the editor becomes incompatible with journal criteria rejected immediately without any external reviews. The manuscript evaluated to be a potential interest for our readers is sent to two reviewer desks. The editor then makes a decision based on reviewers' recommendations of several possibilities: rejected, revision required, or accepted. The editor has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

Review Process:

1. The author submits the script
2. Editor's Evaluation (some manuscripts denied or returned before the review process)
3. Double-blind peer review process
4. Editor's Decision
5. Confirm to an author

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Governance Dynamics publishes journal articles and research papers four times a year, specifically in January, April, July, and October.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that freely available research to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted images, tables, data, or text used in their submitted manuscripts. Authors should note that quoting more than 250 words from a published or copyrighted work requires permission from the original publisher for reprinting. A written permission letter must be submitted along with the manuscript. Authors agree to retain copyright indefinitely.

Publication Ethics

Dinamika Governance: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi Negara (JDG) (e-ISSN: 2656-9949)

is a reviewed journal published by Department of Public Administration UPN "Veteran" Jawa Timur. This statement explains the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the process of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, person in charge, Editor in Chief, Editorial Team, reviewer and publisher.

The Editor Responsibility

1. The editor of Journal “Dinamika Governance” responsible in deciding articles to be published through editorial council meeting.
2. Editor is guided by policy council and journal editorial restricted by valid law concerning defamation, copyright violation and plagiarism. In the process of articles acceptance, editor team works based on similarity treatment.
3. In the process of journal review and decision of publication (articles), the editor team does not discriminate any races, sexes, religions ethnic, citizenship, or ideology of political writer.
4. Editor and editorial team will not open any information about manuscript or article except there is permits from authorship.
5. A manuscript (articles) that is not published after proposed would not be used as research by editor and will be returned directly to the author.

Reviewer by Partnership

1. Reviewer helps editor in making decisions on received article.
2. Reviewer responsible to give recommendation on reviewed article.
3. Review of script is done objectively and supported by clear argument.
4. Reviewer maintain secrecy of information for personal gain.
   
   

Responsibility of the author

1. The Author should present an article or research results clearly, honest, and no-plagiarism, and manipulation of data.
2. The author responsible to confirms articles that have been proposed and written.
3. The writer must obey requirements of publication in the form of original paper, no-plagiarism, and has never been published in journal or other publication.
4. The author must show reference of opinion and other literature being quoted.
5. The author must write a manuscript or article by carrying ethic, honest and responsible as the valid scientific authorial regulation.
6. The author is prohibited to send similar articles to more than one journal or publication.
7. The author has no objection if article being corrected without changing basic idea or substance of article.

Publisher  Responsibility

• Dinamika Governance as scientific journal publisher responsible to publish article after the process of editing, peer review and layouts in accordance with the rules of scientific journal publishing.
• Dinamika Governance responsible to guarantee academic freedom of editor and  reviewer in running their job.
• Dinamika Governance responsible to keep privacy and protects intellectual property and copyright as well as editorial freedom.

Author Fees

Our journal is committed to providing a free and accessible platform for scholarly research. Authors of accepted manuscripts incur no publication fees, and readers can access articles without charge. There are no costs associated with rejected submissions or additional charges for article length, figures, or supplementary data.