Dear reader.

I wonder if you have thought about the fact that the term "submission" is used when approaching a journal with the hope of getting your paper published? Is approaching a journal to get your article published a form of "submission?"

In any case, when one submits a paper for publication, one is in a subordinate position, often having to revise one's paper based on the suggestions of the journals' editors.

Here at the FOUNDATION (formerly the Library of Social Science), we have a simpler and more straightforward approach. We simply identify article we'd like to publish--and publish them. Yes, most of these articles already have appeared previously in a professional or scholarly journal.  

But whereas an article in a journal may be read (if one is fortunate) by two-hundred people in the course of its lifetime, an article published here will be read (on average) by 2000 people on the first day that we send it out into the world  to our list of 6,941 contacts who receive our Newsletters via email.

Our readership consist of top scholars and advanced students in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies...and psychoanalysis.

What's more, we know who is reading each Newsletter that we distribute (and how many times they have "opened" each Newsletter, a measure of their interest and involvement with the article (some publications that we have distributed have been read a given individual 10-20, or even 50 times.

The problem with is that iContact does not allow for Interaction with our publications. Yes, we receive a few responses after each piece we publish, but there is no systematic vehicle for feedback and interaction with our publications. We know who is reading each publications,  but we are unable through iContact to get your own thoughts and input on what the our publications.

We are working on this now: developing a new interactive approach or format so that our readers can response to our publications, offering their own reactions and input.

Stay tuned!

Best regards,
Andrew Hammer, Executive Director 
Foundation for the Study of Political Pathology.

Below is a sampling of just a few prominent authors who publish with the Foundation, many of whom have been reading our Newsletters for many years. 

Ashbach, Charles
Atran, Scott
Bartov, Omer
Bloom, Howard
Bronislava, Volkova
Brownstein, Daniel
Chen, Zhuo Job
Crim, Brian
Denton-Borhaug, Kelly
Feldman, Yael 
Forti, Simona
Frckoski, Ljubomir
Fritz, Stephen
Gambetta, Diego 
Geyer, Michael 
Gornoski, David
Greenfield, Liah
Grgich, Antonio
Griffin, Roger
Gullace, Nicoletta
Gullestad, Anders
Herf, Jeffrey
Johnson, George
Kimura, Akio
Kobrin, Nancy Harevelt
Levene, Mark
Lijtmaer, Ruth
Lockwood, Rene
McKinley, Michael 
Michalczyk, John
O'Brien, Gerald. V.
O'Donnell, Meghan 
Patel, Roshni
Peterson, Jordan
Proctor, Robert
Rappoport, Evelyn
Redles,  David
Roberts, Michael 
Sakai, Naoki
Satz, Martha
Schwartz, Murray 
Skya, Walter 
Tyner, James
Vlahos, Michael 
Vondung, Klaus 
Wegner, Phillip
Weiner, Robert
Winter, Jay
Zhu, Pingchao