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Political Science - Research Guide
An SU Libraries' research starting points guide for political science
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Subjects:Advertising, Area & Ethnic Studies, Communication, European Studies, Journalism, Political Science & Public Administration
Newly Added at Syracuse University (as of 2018)
Life Magazine Archives
Searchable, cover to cover, page image archive of Life Magazine, from November 1936 (issue 1) to December 2000. Includes photographs, and coverage of numerous events and subject areas.
Hate in America, White Nationalism and the Press in the 1920s
National and regional newspapers predominantly from the 1920s related to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This Reveal Digital collection is a work in progress, and titles will be added through 2018, at which point this will be an open access collection.
Independent Voices
Alternative press and underground newspapers, magazines and journals from the 1960s to 1980s, including feminist, LGBT, minority, campus, community, GI, right-wing, and small literary presses.
Service Newspapers of World War Two
Provides access to service newspapers from the British Library; Imperial War Museums; US Army Heritage and Education Center, US Army War College; Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand; Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage.
U.S. Public Policy News
POLITICO Pro is a policy news reporting service that provides policy professionals and students the in-depth, real-time, and archived policy news essential for their research and awareness needs. POLITICO Pro provides dedicated coverage of 15 policy areas spanning the entire policy landscape and include: Agriculture, Budget & Appropriations, Campaigns, Cybersecurity, Defense, Education, eHealth, Energy, Financial Services, Health Care, Labor & Employment, Tax, Technology, Trade, and Transportation. POLITICO Pro specifically tracks news from a policy perspective, reporting on the key influencers (law makers, coalitions, agencies, corporations, committees, etc.) as well as the legislative, regulatory, and political impact of their actions, while offering critical intelligence and analysis on what's to come next.
Politico - Is It True?
Journalists at Politico in 2018 have launched, "Is It True? - A Fake News Database." That effort compiles online news that is a hoax, doctored or impostor news publications. Politico accepts submissions from the public of news content falling into these categories. For more information, visit Is It True? About This Project.
North Korea Studies
NK News Pro
A research platform focusing on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Access proprietary and open source information, including on DPRK companies and trade, a DPRK experts list, economic indicators, import/export data and ship movements, leadership biographies, long form research analysis, and archives of KCNR ("Korean Central News Agency") television news. Aggregates hundreds of news, think-tank, blog and academic sources known for reliable DPRK coverage.
News - Nexis Uni
News, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions, current and historical U.S. state and federal statutes, published court decisions and regulations and more.
LEARN MORE ABOUT NEXIS UNI - WHICH IS THE LEXIS NEXIS REPLACEMENT INTERFACE FOR THE DATABASE FORMERLY KNOWN AS LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC:
Nexis Uni Support & Training (LexisNexis)
PDFs with overviews of Nexis Uni, user search tips, permalinking options, etc.
For a gateway to additional newspaper databases SU Libraries offers - visit the online research guide site called Newspaper Databases
Syracuse University Libraries purchases and provides access to a wide variety of information sources (e.g., books, journals, DVDs, electronic resources) in all areas of political science.
To find out more about these sources, please explore the links on this page and on this guide's menu bar.
Database BEST BETS
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [Proquest] - Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. A core research tool for exploring the discipline's journal literature. Looking for other excellent collections of scholarly & professional literature in political science? Try these databases (and be sure to visit this guide's Databases page for additional options):
CIAO "Columbia International Affairs Online" (Columbia University Press)
Sage Knowledge (ebook collections)
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
JSTOR (JSTOR)
SCOPUS (Reed Elsevier)
PAIS International (Proquest)
Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press)
ProQuest (Proquest)
Europa World (Taylor & Francis)
Annual Reviews (*select "political science" from top tab entitled "journals")
U.S. Political Stats (Sage)
iPOLL Databank (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)
China Data Online (All China Marketing Research Co., Ltd)
China Geo-Explorer II (All China Marketing Research Co., Ltd)
Archives of the Chinese Government (Oriprobe)
Archives of the Communist Party of China (Oriprobe)
Web of Science (ISI)
OECD iLibrary (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Policy Map (The Reinvestment Fund)
And also explore this further segment of ProQuest - specifically focusing on political science sources - -
Political Science Database
Provides access to full text of more than 150 journals in political science and international relations, with coverage from 1985 to the present.This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Writing & Research
Here are some titles in the Library collection helpful for their framing of research processes and related writing in public policy
Writing Public Policy by Catherine F. Smith
In Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process, Fifth Edition, Catherine F. Smith presents a general method for planning, producing, accessing, and critically analyzing communications in a variety of real-life public policy contexts and situations.This practical, concise guide is ideal for students preparing for careers in politics, government, public relations, law, public policy, journalism, social work, or in any role related to public affairs.
Writing a Research Paper in Political Science by Lisa A. Baglione
Call Number: JA86 B24
Even students capable of writing excellent essays still find their first major political science research paper an intimidating experience. Crafting the right research question, finding good sources, properly summarizing them, operationalizing concepts and designing good tests for their hypotheses, presenting and analyzing quantitative as well as qualitative data are all tough-going without a great deal of guidance and encouragement. Writing a Research Paper in Political Science breaks down the research paper into its constituent parts and shows students what they need to do at each stage to successfully complete each component until the paper is finished. Practical summaries, recipes for success, worksheets, exercises, and a series of handy checklists make this a must-have supplement for any writing-intensive political science course.
Public Policy Skills in Action by Bill Coplin
Call Number: H 97 C6653 2017
In this completely revised edition, Bill Coplin continues to prepare the next generation of leaders to bring their hearts and minds to solving the many problems that we face in the twenty-first century. The book teaches students the essential components for public policy analysis; how to get information from published sources and individuals; how to survey stakeholders; formulate public policy; examine costs and benefits of a policy; develop political strategies; write a briefing paper; among other skills.
Doing Dissertations in Politics by David M. Silbergh
Call Number: JA86 S55 2001
This guide has been designed to help undergraduates develop an understanding of practical research methods, and their application in the undergraduate dissertation. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it offers advice on all aspects of undergraduate research, from choosing a dissertation subject through to presenting the finished article. Features of this book: concise chapters which provide an introduction to various aspects of research methods, including: why it is important; quantitative and qualitative methods; and practical application advice, hints and tips on planning, presenting, researching and writing undergraduate dissertations a wide range of examples of research to clearly illustrate different issues and methods which students may encounter guides to further reading and thinking at the end of each chapter.
Statistical Database BEST BET
Has been described as "The World's Largest Collection of Organized Statistical Data."
Once inside Data-Planet Statistical Datasets, look toward the left of the screen for a series of subject folders. The "International" folder draws datapoints from sources such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations and China Data Center as well as World Resource Institute environmental data. Additional categories cover foreign labor statistics, population change/migration, and balance of trade data. Data categories covered for the U.S. include education, commerce, housing and construction, population and income, prices and cost of living, energy, health, labor & employment, banking, finance and insurance. Variables can be cross-compared using side by side tables and charts.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences by James D. Wright (Editor-In-Chief)
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available as an online edition, it comprises 26 volumes, over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. Provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and social sciences fields Discusses history, current trends and future directions Topics are cross-referenced with related topics and each article highlights further reading
U.S. Federal Government Publications & Social Media
VoxGov
Social media for all three U.S. federal government branches. Access documents like the Congressional Record, hearing transcripts, or press releases, alongside YouTube uploads, Twitter and Facebook posts from agencies and individual officials. Filter search results by date, political party, government branch, committee name, U.S. state, gender, or policy topic.
Academic Video Online
Streaming videos, including documentaries, newsreels and programs, interviews, and performances, on a wide range of subjects from providers such as CBS, Universal, and The Open University.
Includes a significant subset of archival copies of episodes from the CBS news magazine TV program, 60 Minutes (1997-2014)
Kanopy - Video Collection
One of the largest academic streaming video collections in the market, containing tens of thousands of educational titles, and also U.S. and international feature films. Kanopy partners with over 800 producers, including the Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Kino Lorber, First Run Features, PBS, BBC, California Newsreel, Media Education Foundation and more. New titles are added continuously. Subjects cover all academic disciplines and include technical training videos. Video links may be embedded into instructional courseware systems like Blackboard. Some titles include transcripts and closed captioning. The platform video player is WCAG-compliant.
QDR
The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. QDR provides search tools to facilitate the discovery of data, and also serves as a portal to material beyond its own holdings, with links to U.S. and international archives. The repository's initial emphasis is on political science. QDR is funded by the National Science Foundation, and hosted by the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, a unit of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Policy Map
Policy Map is a geographic information system which allows you to easily create and customize maps, tables, and charts detailing various U.S. demographics, real estate, crime, money & income, jobs, education, energy, and public investments.
Congress.gov makes federal United States legislative information freely available to the public. Launched Sept. 19, 2012, this site is a successor to THOMAS.gov, the previous public site for legislative information.
http://beta.congress.gov/about
Last Updated: Jan 13, 2020 7:02 PM
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