HOT TOPICS: POLITICS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals
& Trade Publications|Web
Sites
SCOPE: Politics and political science may be described as a science of democracy. (Bessette, Encyclopedia of American Government) Politics has become an issue of increasing importance during the course of the 20th century. Individual voting practices, the presidency, the role of the government in shaping society are all aspects, which concern Americans. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the materials available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS:
Books dealing with politics are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:
United States—Politics and government
Political parties—United States
Business and politics—United States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
JK 9.E52 1998 Encyclopedia of American Government
JK9.P55 2002 The American Political Dictionary
E 183.E48 2001 The Encyclopedia of American Political
History
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located on the second floor of the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Beem, Christopher. The
Necessity of Politics: Reclaiming American Public Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Ceasar, James W.
Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics.
Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
Dawson, Michael C. Black
Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American
Political Ideologies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Hamilton, Lee. How Congress
Works and Why You Should Care. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2004.
Jacobs, Meg. The
Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American
Political
History. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Newey, Glen. After
Politics: The Rejection of Politics in Contemporary
Liberal Philosophy. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Norris, Pippa. Electoral
Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Patterson, Thomas E. We the
People: A Concise Introduction to American Politics.
Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Smith, Mark A. American
Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections,
and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Starr, Rebecca, ed. Articulating America:
Fashioning a National Political Culture in
Early America: Essays in Honor of J.R. Pole. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2000.
Stonecash, Jeffrey M. Class and
Party in American Politics. Boulder, Colo: Westview
Press, 2000.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of politics are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
Open Access
Journals in
Political Science
WEB SITES
Harvard University Institute of Politics
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/index.php
Political Science Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/poliscinew.html
An award-winning site created by Grace York, a political science librarian from the University of Michigan. This site features just about everything you ever wanted to know about politics including statistics, political theory, area studies, foreign politics, periodicals, international relations, etc.
Poly-cy: Internet Resources for Political Science
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/polycy/
Links to both national and international resources created and maintained by Robert Duval l (West Virginia University).
Richard Kimber's
Political Science Resources
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
The Ultimate Political
Science Links Page
http://www.rvc.cc.il.us/faclink/pruckman/PSLinks.htm
Links to journals and publications, publishers, areas of
study, political news.
Updated
02/22/2008
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