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Research Help : Subject Guides : Political Science
Reference Books
| Title | Call Number |
| Amoral politics: the persistent truth of Machiavellism | |
| Ancient Greece : a political, social, and cultural history | DF 77 .A595 1999 |
| Ancient Rome: a military and political history | DG 231 .M33 2004 |
| Dead on arrival : the politics of health care in twentieth-century America | WA 540 AA1 .G66 2003 |
| Historic world leaders | D 412 .H57 1994 |
| Letters and speeches-Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | E 757 .A4 2004 |
| Reconstructing the classics: political theory from Plato to Marx | |
| The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | JA 61 .O95 1993 REF |
| The Statesman's Yearbook: the politics, cultures and economies of the world | JA 61 .S737 2002 REF |
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resources in the collections of ACP
and AMC. Keywords to search for related topics could include, International Relations, Government, Governmental, Cultural, Culture, Social Politics, Economics. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol ? e.g. politic? will find political, politics and politician.
E-Books
| Title | Description |
| netLibrary | A comprehensive collection of online books (eBooks including such books as, Facts About the Presidents, The American Political Process, The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Modern Political Biography, Understanding the United States Health Care Services System and Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. |
| Oxford Reference Online | A cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes such books as, The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, The Oxford Guide to the United States Government and A Dictionary of Political Biography. |
| The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (online text) | full text of Machiavelli's "The Prince" along with photographs and biographical information about Machiavelli. Site also includes a summary, outline, and quotations from the book. |
| United Nations Scholar's Workstation | This collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, and maps includes a directory of links by research topic or geographic area. A project developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory. |
To find more books search WebCat the online catalog of print resources in the collections of ACP and AMC.
To find more books search WebCat the online catalog of print resources in the collections of ACP and AMC.
Research Databases
| Title | Description |
| Academic Search Elite | Full text of nearly 1,850 scholarly journals in a wide variety of academic subject areas. |
| CaDiLaC on-line * | Catalog of the Capital District Library Council's member library holdings. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year |
| Oxford Reference Online | A cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes a wide range of dictionaries and the Oxford Companion series. |
WWW Resources
| General | Description |
| Avalon Project | Find important documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy from ancient times through medieval times and up to modern times. A Project from Yale Law School. |
| Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium | Editorial cartoonist Herbert Block has chronicled the United States' political history from the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium. |
| History and Politics Out Loud | A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students.Includes speeches by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and selected Nixon Watergate tapings. |
| Political Resources on the Net | Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to parties, organizations, governments, and media worldwide. |
| U.S. Government & Policies | Description |
| Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy | Primary documents and excerpts from primary documents published by the United States Information Agency. |
| FirstGov | FirstGov allows users to search or browse a gateway that indexes some 20,000 Web sites containing over a million pages of federal information, and to find information without knowing which agencies produce it. |
| GrayLIT Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports | The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature [unpublished open material] of US Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet |
| National Election Studies Homepage | Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation, based on work supported by the National Science Foundation. |
| The White House | The official White House website where you can find press releases and biographical information. |
| Thomas Legislative Information | Find the text and status of current bills back to the 104th congress (1995-96). You can also access the Congressional Record and committee information (e.g. hearing transcripts), and much more congressional information past and present. |
| United States House of Representatives | The official website for the United States House of Representatives. |
| United States Senate | The official website for the United States Senate. Find information about the senators, legislative information, and lobbying disclosure. |
| World Government | Description |
| Background Notes | Department of State publications that Include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States. |
| Country Studies | Published by the Library of Congress, the Country Studies series offer an analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. |
| Elections around the World | Analysis and reports on campaigns around the world, plus resources on different countries' electoral systems. |
| Portals to the World | In-depth information about countries of the world in the subject areas of history, government, politics, law, business, commerce, culture, and more. From the Library of Congress. |
| World Constitutions and International Treaties | Access to approximately 137 countries with links to other web sites that also index world constitutions. |
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