Research Guides: *Politics: Getting Started with Politics

Best Bets for Politics

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)

Political science and international relations journal articles.

Oxford Handbooks Online - Political Science
Location: Available online.

Collections of essays on major themes in politics.

Oxford Bibliographies
See bibliographies in Political Science or International Relations, or search across entire collection.
Oxford Handbooks Online - Political Science
Location: Available online.

Collections of essays on major themes in politics.
Annual Reviews
Search for in-depth literature reviews (summaries of research on a topic) in the Annual Review of Political Science and other related journals.
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Location: Available online.

Essays with bibliographies on topics in politics and other social sciences.
Cambridge Companions
Location: Available online

The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy have useful introductions to the works of many political theorists.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
Political science and international relations.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
International affairs working papers, proceedings, and policy briefs.
HeinOnline

Law reviews, U.S. and international law, treaties, Supreme Court documents, and other collections related to the law. hein online

Includes:
Law Journal Library (over 2300 law, political science, criminology, and other law related journals all back to inception)
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (American Indian Law Collection)
World Constitutions (the constitutions of every single county plus much more)
Legal Classics
U.S. Presidential Library
Religion & the Law
Women & the Law
Federal Register/CFR
U.S. Statutes at Large
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
United States Code
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Attorney General and Department of Justice Collection
Treaties and Agreements
History of International Law
Foreign Relations of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court Library
Brennan Center for Justice Publications from NYU School of Law
Nexis Uni
Law reviews in additions to case law and news sources.

New York Times (1980-current)
Washington Post (1987 - current)
Global Newsstream
Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire service reports and international news sources.
Nexis Uni
Economist.com
Online full-text. Publication dates: July 19,1997 to present. Ask for logon at Research Desk.

Foreign Affairs
Magazine reviews current events as they affect US relations worldwide, focusing on international, political, commercial and cultural relations.

Philosopher's Index
MLA International Bibliography
Modern literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Overviews of the origin and cultural interpretations of subjects such as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, and others in Western thought and culture.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
Location: Available online.

Published: 2008

Treaties in Force
Annually published list of treaties and other international agreements to which the U.S. is currently a party.
Treaty Affairs (U.S. State Department)
Portal for information on U.S. treaties.
Avalon Project - International Agreements and Diplomatic Documents
Collection of full-text documents.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions
Location: Available online and in print: JF51 .O92 2006

Published: 2006
The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies
Location: Available online

Published: 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
Location: Available online and in print: HQ1236 .O99 2013

Published: 2013
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups
Location: Available online

Published: 2010