POLI 327 Winter 2024
Primary/Supplemental/Non-peer reviewed sources
Country Profiles, NGO & IGO Reports
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Viewpoint
Concordia Library: Country Profiles & reports
The Statesman's Yearbook 2024: the politics, cultures and economies of the world
The World Bank:
- Where we work: countries and partners
- Country at a Glance tables: "presents two pages of key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development from the last three decades."
HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources: Contains the current constitution of every country in the world in its original language along with at least one English translation.
Democracy & Regime Change Resources
- IDEA: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Reports on: electoral processes, political parties, constitution-building, democracy and gender, and conflict assessment. - Transparency International - reports, statistics, and analysis of global corruption.
- Freedom House: Freedom in the World reports - comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.
- Electoral Integrity Project - the Electoral Integrity Project produces innovative and policy-relevant research comparing elections worldwide.
- The Polity Project
- V-Dem: Varieties of Democracy
- Oxford Bibliographies - Political Science - for background information about democracy, democratic theory
Government Information
Government Information Guide - with custom search for Intergovernmental Organization publications
Google Advanced Search - set the Language: English and search in the Domain specific to your focal country's government.
| Brazil | gov.br |
| Greece | .gov.gr |
| India | .gov.in |
| Iran | .irangov.ir |
| Kenya | .go.ke |
| Mexico | .gob.mx (Spanish) |
| Moldova | .gov.md |
| Nepal | .gov.np |
| USA | .usa.gov |
Wayback Machine - to find older versions of websites
News Databases
- International Newsstream - news content from outside the U.S. and Canada, in multiple languages.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail (1844 - 3 years ago)
Search tips
Use AND in between two keywords to find both of those words in the book or journal article
Elections AND Violence
Use OR between two synonyms to find either of those words in the book or journal article
state OR government
Put quotation marks around two or more words, to search them as a complete phrase
"regime change"
Put an asterix at the end of a word, to find all the possible suffix or endings for that word
democra* finds: democracy, democratic, democracies, democratically, democratization
Peer reviewed and Academic sources
Sofia Discovery Tool - Concordia print books, ebooks and journal articles
Political Science Complete - good poli sci journal coverage, plenty of full-text, excellent thesaurus
How do you know if a journal is peer reviewed? - Concordia Library Help Guide
Journals
Annual Review of Political Science - open review, articles give an overview or survey of a particular topic, they are a good place to find extensive reference lists
- Democratization - double blind peer reviewed journal
- Democratic Theory - blind peer reviewed journal
- Journal of Democracy - academic journal, not formally peer reviewed
- Perspectives on Politics - double blind peer reviewed journal
- Politics and Governance - double blind peer reviewed journal
List of Academic/Scholarly Book Publishers (not exhaustive)
- University of *blank* Press/ *blank* University Press
- Elsevier
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Springer
- Walter de Gruyter
- Ashgate Publishing
- Bedford-St. Martin's
- Berg Publishers
- BioMed Central
- Brill Publishers
- Cambria Press
- EBSCO
- Edward Elgar
- I.B. Tauris
- Lexington Press
- Peter Lang
- Pluto Press
- Polity
- Pickering & Chatto
- Routledge
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Sage
- Taylor & Francis
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Wolters Kluwer