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Subject Guide - Political Science

• Selected Print Sources
• Full-Text Books Online
• Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
• Magazine, Journal, & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
• Other Library Materials
• Searching the Library Catalog
• Selected Web Resources
• Selected Statistical Resources
• Selected Online Images and Other Media
• Other Library Catalogs

Compiled by Carol Satersmoen. Social Sciences LIbrarian Liaison. Updated 2007

Selected Print Sources

REF B51 .E53 2006       Encyclopedia of philosophy

REF G122 .U56 2001     The World Factbook 2001

REF JA61 .O95 1993     The Oxford companion to politics of the world

BL238 .L66 2002            Fundamentalists and extremists

BP161.2 .E85 1998        Islam: the straight path

D726.5 .N46 1991          Neo-Fascism in Europe

DK254.L4 W34413         Lenin, life and works

DS778.M3 A516            Mao Tse-tung: an anthology of his writings

E211.P1198 1997          Common sense

HX39.5 .A224 1972        The Marx-Engels reader

HX276.M3 1955a2          The communist manifesto

HX276.M39 K8 1947       Manifesto of the Communist Party

JA75.8 .D63 1995          Green political thought

JA84.U5 C62 1990         Confronting the Constitution: the challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from utilitarianism, historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, pragmatism, existentialism

JA84.U5 M297 1995       Are you liberal? conservative? or confused?

JA84.U5 V36 1995         Ideology and political choice: the search for freedom, justice, and virtue

JC71.A7 M8      Aristotle's political theory: an introduction for students of political theory

JC143.M38 1910            The prince / by Niccolo Machiavelli. Utopia / by Sir Thomas More. Ninety-five theses; Address to the German nobility; Concerning Christian liberty / by Martin Luther; with introductions and notes

JC153.H66 G38 1979     The logic of Leviathan: the moral and political theory of Thomas Hobbes

JC229.T7713     Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, revolution, and society: selected writings

JC319.P587 1996           Political geography of the United States

JC325.P58 1990            The state: its nature, development, and prospects

JC501.S7 S33 1999       Stand! American government: contending ideas and opinions

JC585.B5613 1990         Liberalism and democracy

JK271.W377 1996          In defense of government: the fall and rise of public trust

JK1764.D56 1991           Why Americans hate politics

JK2249 .P648 2001        Political scandals: opposing viewpoints

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Campaign and election reform: a reference handbook; The flourishing of Islamic reformism in Iran: political Islamic groups in Iran (1941-61); The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science: A User's Guide to Its Terms; Career in Professional Politics; Thinking Politics: Perspectives in Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Political Theory; American Public Policy: Promise and Performance; American Political Thought; Machiavelli: Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought; Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; Political Treatise; Second Treatise of Government; The Rights of Man; Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough; A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy; Politics, the Basics; Of the Origin and Design of Government in General; Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan; Great Jobs for Political Science Majors; (On The) Equality Among Mankind; Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics; Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy; Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook; Separate but Equal Branches: Congress and the Presidency; Political Reconciliation; The American Political Process

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Time
Newsweek

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

The Library’s subscriptions to history journals are primarily in electronic format. Full-test articles are available in electronic formats through online databases (see blow)

Academic Search Premier  | Off-Campus Access
CQ Researcher     |     Off-Campus Access
Encyclopedia of Philosophy      |     Off-Campus Access
Facts on File  | Off-Campus Access
LexisNexis     |     Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library  | Off-Campus Access
American Diplomacy
The Cato Journal: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis 
Crossroads: the ASA journal
Fast Capitalism
Harvard Human Rights Journal
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
New Perspectives on Political Economy
Policy Review
World Political Science Review

Other Library Materials

Videos/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #1-J01            Bill Moyer's journal: Impeachment
VHS PN6122 .G74 1998             The greatest speeches of all-time

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

Political Science, Right and Left (Political Science), United States – Politics and Government, Political Participation, Press and Politics, Political Campaigns, Conservatism, Liberalism, Politics, Practical, Political Corruption, Political Ethics, Comparative Government, Socialism, Communism, Fascism

Selected Web Resources

American Civil Liberties Union
American Political Science Association
American Radicalism Collection
Amnesty International
Anarchy Archives
The Brookings Institution
Cato Institute
Center for American Women and Politics
Civilrights.org
Congress Watch
Country Studies
Democratic Party
Denver Regional Council of Governments
Green Parties World Wide
Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institution: Research
Huber H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Institute for Women's Policy Research
International Socialist Organization 
John Locke Foundation
Kettering Foundation
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive
Libertarian Party
Marx and Engels Interactive Archive
Maoist Internationalist Movement
Marxists Internet Archive
National Center for Policy Analysis
Open CRS: Congressional Research Reports for the People
Opensecrets.org
Pew Research Center: For the People and the Press
Political Information.com
Political Theory Daily Review
Primary Documents in American History
Public Agenda
RAND Corporation
The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990
Republican National Committee
Stateline.org
THOMAS (Library of Congress)
Western Governors' Association

Selected Statistical Resources

American National Election Studies
Harris Interactive: The Harris Poll
National Association of Counties
PollingReport.com 
The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990: The Harvard - MIT Data Center: Henry A. Murray Research Archive

Selected Online Images and Other Media

American Rhetoric
Images of American Political History
Library of Congress: Government, World Affairs Webcasts
Marx/Engels Image Library

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric