Dictionaries
● The Dictionary of World Politics. New York : Simon & Schuster,
1990.
Call Number: Reference - JA61 .E85 1990
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Encyclopedias
● Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. New York : Macmillan
Reference USA, c2000. 6v
Call Number: Reference - KF4548 .E53 2000
● Encyclopedia of American Government. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem
Press, c1998. 4 v
Lehman College - Stacks - JK9 .E52 1998
● Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System. New York : Scribner,
1987. 3 v
Call Number: Reference - KF154 .E53 1987
● Encyclopedia of the American Left. New York : Garland Pub.,
1990.
Call Number: Reference - HX86 .E58 1990
● Encyclopedia of American political history. New York : Scribner,
1984. 3 v
Call Number: Reference - E183 .E5 1984
● Encyclopedia of the Third World. New York : Facts on File,
1992. 3 v
Call Number: Reference - HC59.7 .K87 1992
● The encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements.
Philadelphia [Pa.] : Taylor and Francis, 1985.
Call Number: Reference - JX1977 .O8213 1985
Handbooks
● Political Science: Illustrated Search Strategy and Sources: with
an Introduction to Legal research for Undergraduates. Ann Arbor, Mich.
: Pierian Press, 1993.
Call Number: Reference - JA88 .L69 1993
Directories
● Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html
The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State
and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is
intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many
governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not
officially recognized by the United States. Those with which the United
States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE.
Bibliographies
Electronic Databases
● Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas
of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies
● CQ Researcher
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. The CQ Researcher web site offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991. PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996; for issues published since January 2001, PDF files are in color.
● Econlit
Click EBSCOhost Web to enter. Produced by the American Economics Association,
Econlit indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. Its source material
includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and
working papers. The database contains more than 350,00 records. The subjects covered within
Econlit include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics,
modeling, economic theory, planning, and much more. Coverage: 1969-present
● Ethnic Newswatch
SoftLine's Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage: 1990-present.
● JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences I Collection comprising 117 titles from the following
disciplines: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics,
Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political
Science, Population/Demography, Sociology, and Statistics. Arts and Science
II and Language and Literature collections will be available beginning 2003.
Organizations
● The American Political Science Association Online
http://www.apsanet.org/
“The American Political Science Association is the major professional
society for people who study politics, government and public policies in the
U.S. and around the world.”
Portals & Subject Guides
● Political Science & History of Law, Government & Political Science - Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/law30.00.00/
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.03.70/
● The Keele Guide to Political Science on the Internet
Web-directory for political science resources.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/psbase.htm
● Political Information.com
http://www.politicalinformation.com/
A search engine for policy, politics, and political news.
● International/Country Information - Lehman College Government Documents Resources
http://www.lehman.edu/provost/library//govdoc/international.htm
● Open Democracy
http://www.opendemocracy.net/home/index.jsp
● U.S. Government Documents Collection - NYU
http://library.nyu.edu/research/govdocs/
Includes subject guides on Public Policy, Political Science and Voting.
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Subject Resources for Political Science and
International Relations - UBC
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage2.cfm?id=169
Public Policy Websites
● Almanac of Policy Issues
http://www.policyalmanac.org/
Comprehensive, unbiased background information and links on major U.S. public policy issues.
● Public Agenda Online
http://www.publicagenda.org/
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and
citizen education organization that provides in-depth issue guides on
a wide range of important policy issues. Also has links to news.
● Stateline.org - Pew Research Center
http://www.stateline.org
"Politics and Policy News, State by State."
Librarian
Subject Librarian for Political Science:
Addie Armstrong
E-mail: Addie.Armstrong@lehman.cuny.edu
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Last updated:
December 18, 2007
URL: http://www.lehman.edu/provost/library//GuidePolitical.htm
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