POLI 331 Fall 2026
Required & recommended readings
Herron, Pekkanen, & Shugart (eds) (2018).The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems.
Gallagher & Mitchell (eds) (2005). The Politics of Electoral Systems
Background sources & country reports
- Oxford Bibliographies: Political Science
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Viewpoint Go to Topics > Politics > Choose your Country
- HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources - current constitution of every country in the world in its original language along with at least one English translation
Academic books & journal articles
Sofia - for print books, ebooks, government information and journal articles
Subject Searching
- Elections
- Electoral reform
- Electoral Systems
- mixed-member electoral systems
- Political parties
- Proportional representation
- Representative government and representation
Journal article databases
Political Science Complete - Database for Political Science journal articles
- Use the "Company Entity - CO" option under 'Select a Field' to search for specific political parties and "Geographic Terms - GE" to search for specific countries
JSTOR - Multidisciplinary database, with archival holdings of older articles
HeinOnline Law Journal Library - search for articles in Law journals, Canadian, American and international law, Constitutional law
Newspapers
International Newsstream (ProQuest) - Fulltext news content from outside the U.S. and Canada. (Jerusalem Post, The Guardian (UK), Telegraph (UK), Times of India, Le Monde (France), Die Welt (Germany), New Zealand Herald).
US Newsstream - U.S. national and regional news sources (The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall street journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, USA Today)
Canadian Newsstream (ProQuest) Canadian daily newspapers (major dailies), as well as local and regional newspapers, and transcripts from news broadcasts. (Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, National Post, etc)