New for Politics

Oxford University Press / Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Five-volume set (2009) contains over 300 signed, alphabetically-arranged entries, providing "situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice."
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Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Third edition (2007) surveys about 100 nations, summarizing constitutional history and salient points of the latest form of the document. However, to see the actual complete texts of constitutional documents, check the University of Richmond's Constitution Finder.
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Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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This 2009 volume contains biographies on each of the 52 Speakers, as well as historical essays, primary source documents, and more.
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Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Available online.
"A study of voter-registration efforts at Northwestern University has concluded that students make strategic choices about where to vote, noting that students from swing states in the 2008 presidential election overwhelmingly chose to cast absentee ballots rather than to register to vote near the campus." (description from the Chronicle of Higher Education_
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Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Fourth edition is a "compilation of CQ voting studies and interest group rating data for every legislator who has served in Congress from 1947 to 2004."
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Congressional Quarterly / Governing.
The magazine Governing is one of the most valuable periodicals for monitoring issues in U.S. state and local government. For years, that publication also has created an annually-published collection of information called the State and Local Sourcebook, which now is available only online. Parts of the site are accessible only to subscribers to the magazine, which includes W&L.

Two portions of the Sourcebook site are particularly valuable.
The Data section offers free access to statistical data about U.S. states and municipalities, often used by government officials in policy consideration. Categories include economic development, education, demographics, social services, and more.
The subscription-only Contacts collection is a searchable database of thousands of "addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses for state and local government leaders in all 50 states and the largest local governments."

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Thomson Reuters / Sciencewatch.com
Available online.
Updated comparison of the "citation impact" of journals in the field, based upon the frequency with which articles from a journal are cited by other sources.
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