On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries

This article evaluates the international performance of twenty-one major international social-science book publishers according to nineteen quality criteria. The companies chosen publish almost 19 per cent of titles worldwide on such critical political economy issues as dependency theory and world systems theory, as well as 7 per cent of all titles on globalization, the world system, or the European Union, and all have been important outlets in the past, especially for writers outside North America. The author applies parametric and non-parametric social-science indicator construction in the tradition of Almas Heshmati to arrive at a performance ranking for the twenty-one companies based on the nineteen criteria.