Pfeiffer Library: Political Science: Search Options

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Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Citations and full-text of articles covering comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts of articles from political science journals.
Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Article citations related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications in sociology.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

These free web resources may also prove useful.

GovInfo This link opens in a new window
Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
From the United Nations, this international database is searchable and includes several different types of statistics, including population, business, health, and housing.

CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for more than 265 world entities.
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
Constitute
Offers access to the world’s constitutions that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
National Conference of State Legislators' Ballot Measure Database
NCSL’s Ballot Measures Database includes all statewide ballot measures, starting over a century ago.
Policy Agendas Project
Collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War.
Government Accountability Office
Investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars
American Presidency Project
Contain 110,902 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Avalon Project
The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Governce.
THOMAS
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress

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