Politics

Background Information

Journal Articles

Books

Websites

Statistics

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Guides for finding information on politics and governments worldwide.

• Congressional Quarterly's Campaigns and Elections
• Congressional Universe. Provides access to U.S. Congress publications.
• Congressional Research Service.  A nongovernmental site dedicated to making public CRS research reports provided for members of Congress. Not all reports are available.
• Electoral Websites
• Political Resources on the Net . Internet directory of parties, organizations, governments and media.
• PollingReport. com.
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet

JOURNAL ARTICLES (DATABASES)
Suggested databases to search for scholarly articles on your topic

• PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service. Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents. Available online for literature published since 1972 and in paper (H 1 P3 Ref) from 1915.
• International Bibliography of Political Science. Indexes articles and books in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, and anthropology from 1951 to the present. Click the button, "Direct" to access the database.
  
  Examples of databases to locate primary materials (including news sources) on your topic
• Lexis Nexis Service. Provides the full text of major newspapers, both domestic and foreign.
• World News Connection. An online service provided by the U.S. government which offers translations of foreign news items from radio and television broadcasts, news agencies, newspapers, books and government reports.  
• Yale Library Selected Internet Resources: Political Science
• Working Paper Sites for Political Science
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Congressional Universe. Provides access to U.S. Congress publications.

BOOKS
Areas in the stacks you might browse, or major subject headings you could search under in the library catalog

• The best way to find a book on your topic is to start with a search in the Library Catalog. Once you've found something of interest, you might also browse the stacks in that particular area.

WEBSITES 

• Yale Library Selected Internet Resources: Political Science.
• Center for American Women and Politics
• American Political Science Association
  

STATISTICS

• Statistical Universe . Provides access to US Federal, state, international and private publications which contain statistics.
• Statistical Agencies (International). Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau, this is an alphabetical listing of countries with www sites for their central statistical offices.
• European Public Opinion. Provides digests and reports based on the surveys done by Eurobarometer.
• World Development Indicators.