Resource Guide:
Politics

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• American Political Science Association
• International Political Science Association
• Political Science Resources: United States Politics (Michigan)
• Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World
• USA.gov (U.S. Government Information)
• Campaign Money
• World Advocacy
• The American Presidency Project
• Political Party Platforms (Since 1840)
• American Rhetoric
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
• Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource)
• Foreign Government Resources

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Politics
• Communication in Politics
• Marxism
• Political Parties
• Common Good
• Communitarianism
• Political Science
• Civics
• Anarchism
• Political Science‚ Philosphy
• Authoritarianism
• Citizenship
• Comparative Government
• Authority
• Radicalism
• Constitutions
• Bureaucracy
• Social Contract
• Democracy
• Public Opinion
• Individualism
• Democratization
• Conservatism
• Utopia/Utopianism
• Elections
• Socialism
• Republicanism
• Liberalism
• Christianity and Politics
• Imperialism
• Right and Left
• Islam and Politics
• State Rights

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Environment Complete
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Legal Collection
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• OAISter
• PhilPapers
• Philosopher’s Index
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• American political science review
• American Prospect
• Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
• British journal of political science
• Commentary
• Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory
• Dissent
• Good society: a PEGS journal
• Journal of Political Ideologies
• Journal of Political Philosophy
• Journal of politics
• Nation
• National Review
• New Republic
• Perspectives on politics
• Philosophy and Public Affairs
• Politics & society
• Public choice
• Reason
• Review of politics
• PS, political science and politics

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.