政治分析发表同行评议的文章，在政治方法论的一般领域，包括定量和定性方法论方法，提供了原始和重要的进展。它是政治方法学会的官方刊物，也是美国政治科学协会的政治方法学部分。
Political Analysis publishes peer reviewed articles that provide original and significant advances in the general area of political methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. It is the official journal of the Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association.