POLI 331 Fall 2025

POLI 331 Library Workshop Slides

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
  • Party system Institutionalization in democracies
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Viewpoint  Go to Topics > Politics > Choose your Country
• IDEA - Global State of Democracy Initiative: Democracy Tracker Country Profiles > Region > 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• HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources - current constitution of every country in the world in its original language along with at least one English translation

Sofia - for print books, ebooks, government information and journal articles 

• Political Science Complete - search for articles in International relations, Comparative politics, International politics, International organizations, Security, Foreign policy, Human rights, Political economy, U.S. Politics, Public policy, Elections

• 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

• Google Scholar - multidisciplinary  -> See also: How to set up Google Scholar to find Concordia Resources