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All contributions that are submitted will be acknowledged by the Managing Editor as soon as possible. Occasionally, an article may not fall within our remit, in which case we will advise authors on changes that would allow us to publish their submission.

In most cases submitted articles will be reviewed quickly and edited to enhance readability for the blog’s broad audience. These edits may include:

  • Shortening of text if the article goes beyond our usual range (800-1200 words)
  • The addition of a narrative-style title to sum up the post’s main findings
  • The addition of short introductory paragraph outlining the article’s author, their main arguments and findings, and any relevant background information for readers.

Once these edits and revisions are complete, we will send the final version of the blog article to authors with an estimated date and time of publication, and give the author an opportunity to make any further edits they deem are necessary. Please note that owing to events and other circumstances beyond our control, we may have to change our posting order at very short notice.

Unfortunately, due to time pressures, authors may have less than 24 hours to approve our edits. However, once articles are published, we are very happy to make further edits afterwards should the author deem them to be necessary.

Creative Commons and Article Sharing

Unless otherwise specified, all of our articles are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), meaning that other blogs and publications are free to use them as long as they are unmodified and properly attributed. If you do not wish for your article to be republished anywhere else, please let us know.

Editorial Issues 

The blog team will need to assess articles collectively, which may lead to a slight delay, wherever content is potentially:

  • libellous or defamatory;
  • affected by conflicts of interest;
  • lacking in academic rigour or insufficiently evidence-based;
  • damaging to the reputation of the author, the blog, the Latin America and Caribbean Centre, or the LSE.
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