Government and Opposition

{{Short description|Academic journal}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Government and Opposition

| cover =

| caption =

| former_name =

| abbreviation = Gov. Oppos.

| discipline = Politics

| editors=Isabelle Hertner, Erik Jones

| publisher = Cambridge University Press for Government and Opposition Ltd.

| country = United Kingdom

| history = 1965-present

| frequency = Quarterly

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 2.582

| impact-year = 2018

| website = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=GOV

| link1 = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=GOV&tab=currentissue

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayBackIssues?jid=GOV

| link2-name = Online archive

| link3 = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1477-7053

| link3-name = Journal page

| link3-at = Wiley-Blackwell

| ISSN = 0017-257X

| eISSN = 1477-7053

| CODEN =

| LCCN = 65009983

| OCLC = 904489489

}}

Government and Opposition is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on politics. It was published by Wiley-Blackwell until 2013, when it switched to Cambridge University Press. The journal was established in 1965{{cite book |editor1=Madeleine Grawitz |editor-link=:fr:Madeleine Grawitz |editor2=Jean Leca |editor-link2=:fr:Jean Leca |author=Elisabeth Gayon |author-link=Elisabeth Gayon |date=1985 |title=Traité de science politique |chapter=Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique |page=306 |language=fr |publisher=Presses Universitaires de France |isbn=2-13-038858-2}} and the editors-in-chief are Isabelle Hertner (King's College London) and Erik Jones (Johns Hopkins University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.582, ranking it 32nd out of 176 journals in the category "Political Science".{{cite book |year=2018 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science |title=2018 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Social Sciences |series=Web of Science|title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}