Political Science
Article Databases (Scholarship)
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
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Google Scholar Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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Annual Reviews
Annually synthesizes primary research literature and identifies principal contributions in many disciplines. Full-text available for online titles.
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Political Extremism and Radicalism
With a range of content focused on political extremism and radical thought in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America, Political Extremism provides a range of documents and audio recordings covering the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Polling the Nations
Compilation of surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and more than 100 other countries. All surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.
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Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
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Web of Science Note: The library has begun a subscription to Scopus as a replacement for our Web of Science subscription. Access to Web of Science will end on December 31, 2025. Indexes information covering disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Includes six citation databases: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus.
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Academic Search Premier Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
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Google Scholar Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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JSTOR Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
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Project MUSE Access to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
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Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
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Web of Science Note: The library has begun a subscription to Scopus as a replacement for our Web of Science subscription. Access to Web of Science will end on December 31, 2025. Indexes information covering disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Includes six citation databases: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Large collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. Includes full text for most graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
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Business Source Premier Provides articles, industry reports, and more on subject areas related to business, with top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Use the Business Searching Interface to easily browse leading publications and locate company and industry profiles, country reports, and SWOT analyses.
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Communication and Mass Media Complete Access to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.
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BASE A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Social Science Open Access Repository Database of open access journal articles and working papers in the social sciences. Useful for finding scholarship written and published outside of the U.S. Use the Disciplines feature to limit your search to a specific subject area.
Newspaper, Legal, Thinks Tanks/Policy, and Regional Resources
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Access World News: Research Collection
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Current coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals published by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Also includes more selected historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals going back to 1959. Roughly 25% of the content is in Spanish.
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Alternative Press Index
Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1991-present.
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PressReader Newspapers
Access to thousands of newspapers from over 100 countries and 60 languages. Includes 90 days of back issues and translation in 16 languages. Create a PressReader account in order to save articles, create collections, and read content offline. Must be on campus or connected to the VPN to create an account.
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HeinOnline
Provides coverage of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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Pew Research CenterPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions.
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GallupArticles, interviews and data trends that provide an unbiased understanding of public opinion and human behavior.
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RANDRAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides leaders with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.
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Ipsos"At Ipsos we believe our clients need more than a data supplier, they need a partner who can produce accurate and relevant information and turn it into actionable truth."
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Quinnipiac University PollThe Quinnipiac University Poll is a nationally recognized leader in public opinion research taking the pulse of American voters, on a continual basis, across the country regarding key public policy issues and elections.
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Marist PollThe Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It regularly measures public opinion at the local, state, and national level.
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The World Public Opinion PollThe World Public Opinion Poll tracks public opinion regarding a large variety of international issues, including: development aid, environment, the United Nations, governance, international security, globalization, human rights and views about events in specific countries.
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Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank SearchA Think Tank search engine that searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
Selected Think Tanks:
Liberal:
Center for American Progress (CAP)
American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
American think tank that analyzes the impact of federal and state government budget policies from a progressive perspective.
Human Rights Watch
A nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe
Conservative:
The Heritage Foundation
American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. It advances the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom.
American Enterprise Institute
A conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Its research is dedicated to issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare.
CATO Institute
American libertarian think tank, it was established to have a focus on public advocacy, media exposure and societal influence.
Centrist/Non-Partisan:
Brookings Institution
American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
The center conducts policy studies and strategic analyses of political, economic and security issues throughout the world, with a specific focus on issues concerning international relations, trade, technology, finance, energy and geo-strategy.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
For a more comprehensive list of Think Tanks, see Public Policy Research Think Tanks from Penn Libraries.