The long and winding road that leads... to our special issue of Party Politics

After a very long gestation period of some four and half years the special issue of Party Politics on parties of the centre-right in Central and Eastern Europe guest edited by Aleks Szczerbiak and mehas finally appeared. I read through and I was generally pleased with the articles have turned out. The unintendedly long, period of writing, re-writing, talking and meeting - interrupted in my case by the publication of a book and the birth of daughter - clearly benefited it. Maybe all academic articles should take this long to write ...