Politics Subject Guide

This guide provides references to selected materials in the area of politics, and draws from McHenry Library's collection of print and online resources. This guide is organized by the following categories:

BASIC FACTS AND OVERVIEWS
Selected list of politics reference materials. Find books in McHenry Library, on the 2nd-floor; find online resources by title at: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html

Encyclopedias:

Encyclopedia of government and politics (Call number: REF JA61 .C66 2004; 2 volumes)

Oxford guide to the United States government (REF JK9 .P384 2001 or online)

Encyclopedia of politics: the left and the right (REF JA61 .E54 2005; 2 vols.)

Encyclopedia of public administration and public policy (REF JK9 .E526 2003; 2 vols.)

Encyclopedia of American foreign policy (REF JX1407 .E53 2002; 3 vols.)

Greenwood encyclopedia of international relations (REF JZ1160 .N65 2002; 4 vols.)

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements (REF JX1977 .O8213 2003; 4 vols.)

Human rights encyclopedia (REF JC571 .L523 2001; 3 vols.)

Basic documents on human rights (REF JC571 .B7 2002)

Globalization: encyclopedia of trade, labor, and politics (REF JZ1318 .G5 2005, 2 vols.)

Revolutionary and dissident movements of the world (REF JC328.3 .D43 2004)

Encyclopedia of political anarchy (REF HX830 .G39 1999)

CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher (Online, dates covered: 1991- )
"In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports" on topics in the news

Dictionaries:

Congress dictionary: the ways and meanings of Capitol Hill (REF JK1067 .D5 1993)

Facts on File dictionary of American politics (REF JK9 .H54 2001)

Concise Oxford dictionary of politics (REF JA61 .C665 2003 or online)

Countries:

Europa World Plus (Online)
"The online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series...covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories."

World Factbook (Online)
From the Central Intelligence Agency. "Provides the essential elements of basic intelligence on all areas of the world."

Country Studies (Online)
From the Federal Studies Division, Library of Congress. "Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world."

Government & Law

CQ Weekly (Online, dates covered: 1983- )
"Coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and more"

CQ Supreme Court Collection (Online)
Analysis, updates, and "commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution"

LexisNexis Congressional (Online)

Westlaw Campus (Online)

ARTICLES
Discipline-specific, and related, online databases for finding politics research. Find databases by title at: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html; off-campus access info at: http://oca.ucsc.edu/; text availability info at: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/elinks.html

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Dates covered: 1975- )
Use this database to find citations to articles and other works in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy.

PAIS International (1972- )
Use this database to find citations to articles and other works in "policy approaches in areas and issues of concern to governments, including economic, political, and social background information and statistics. The scope is international, with access at global, regional, national, and local levels."

PAIS Archive (1915-1976)
Use this database to find citations to articles and other works that offer "historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies."

Related Disciplines:

Philosopher's Index (1940- ); EconLit (1969- ); Sociological Abstracts (1963- ); America: History and Life (1964- ); Historical Abstracts (1954- ); ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) (1966-); Legal Research: LexisNexis Legal Research and Westlaw Campus

Multidisciplinary (Humanities and Social Sciences):

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (1770-1995); Web of Science (1975- ); Expanded Academic ASAP (1980- )

News and Newspapers:

LexisNexis Academic (1980- )
Use this database to find the full text of articles published in selected newspapers. Use Guided News Search for advanced search options.

NewsBank Access World News (1977-)
Use this database to find full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Includes shortcut search for California Newspapers.

Proquest Newspapers (Current & historical coverage)
Use this database to find the full text of the following newpapers: Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal.

BOOKS

CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu) is UCSC's library catalog. Use CRUZCAT to find books, journals, films (in DVD or videocassette format), sound recordings, government publications, and other materials.

Melvyl (http://melvyl.cdlib.org) is the combined catalog of the University of California libraries. Melvyl allows you to request items not owned by UCSC.

TIP: If you're unfamiliar with subject searching, try a keyword search and select a useful book record from the results. In the record click a subject to see more books on that topic. The following are samples of politics-related subjects:

Subject headings:	Examples:
Political science	Political science Political science -- China -- History
Citizenship	Citizenship -- Moral and ethical aspects Citizenship -- United States
International relations	International relations
Biopolitics	Biopolitics

Subheadings:	Examples:
-- Political aspects	Globalization -- Political aspects
-- Foreign relations	Arab countries -- Foreign relations
-- Politics and government	Cuba -- Politics and government Indians of North America -- Politics and government
-- Government relations	Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations

JOURNALS IN THE DISCIPLINE
Selected list of politics journals available through CRUZCAT

American political science review
From the American Political Science Association. Features research from all fields of political science, and contains reviews of books in the discipline.

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
From the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Guest edited by scholars and experts in the field with research on significant topics of interest to its readership.

British journal of political science
Covers developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. Contributions range from all fields of political science and related disciplines.

Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory
Contemporary critical and democratic theory in philosophy, politics, social theory, and law

Good society: a PEGS journal
From the Committee on the Political Economy of The Good Society. Promotes serious and sustained inquiry into innovative institutional designs for a good society.

Journal of politics
From the Southern Political Science Association. Political science with balanced treatments in fields that include American politics, political theory, and comparative and international politics.

Perspectives on politics
Provides political science scholarship. Aims to connect research findings, conceptual innovations, or theoretical developments to real problems of politics.

Politics & society
Critical analysis through the development of Marxist, post-Marxist, and other radical perspectives. Raises questions about the way the world is organized politically, economically, and socially.

Public choice
Deals with the intersection between economics and political science

Review of politics
Philosophical and historical studies of politics, plus political theory and American political thought, though open to all aspects of politics.

Review of radical political economics
From the Union for Radical Political Economics. Research in non-orthodox economics, and critical inquiry into all areas of economic, social, and political reality.

PS, political science and politics
From the American Political Science Association. Coverage of the broad range of observations and information about the discipline, plus critical analyses of contemporary political phenomena.

PS (1968-1987)

Theory & event
Chronicles creative political thought in the humanities and the social sciences, the intersections of political theory, literary theory, and philosophy, and contemporary events and their theorization.

Full-Text Politics Journal Collections:

Political science: a SAGE full-text collection (Dates covered: 1982- )
A selected list of full-text political science journals.

JSTOR (Coverage varies; does not include last 3-5 years)
Click "Browse" to browse selected full-text journals by discipline.

PAO (Coverage varies, 1770-1995)
Click "Find Journals" to find selected full-text journals by subject.

WEB SITES OF INTEREST
Criteria for evaluating Web sites available at: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/evaluate.html

American Political Science Association http://www.apsanet.org/
"Professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries"

Political Theory Daily Review http://politicaltheory.info/
"A portal weblog on political theory and philosophy for staying on top of the news. Links to articles and essays that are free of charge and that are relevant to the field of political theory"

PROL Political Research Online http://convention2.allacademic.com/index.php?cmd=prol01
"A pre-print server that serves as the common resource for all emerging scholarship in political science"

Philosophy Study Guides from SPARKNOTES http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/
Free online study guides

ORGANIZING CITATIONS AND REFERENCES

How to...Use APA Bibliographic Style http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/apa_citations.html
UCSC's guide to citing in the APA (American Psychological Association) style

Contact Annette Marines (amarines @ ucsc . edu). Updated November 2007

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