New for Politics

U.S. State Department.
Available online.
"U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. "
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

U.S. House of Representatives / GPOAccess
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
Profiles of the 229 women who have served in the U.S. Senate and House, divided into four "generations," as well as historical and analytical material.
A link will be maintained in several locations on the library Web site, including here.

Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Available online.
"Many Iraqis have divided or multiple loyalties, and the patterns of violence in one area may well differ from another. This becomes far clearer from the detailed results of a recent public opinion poll by ABC News, USA Today, the BBC, and ARD. This poll provided important insights into the overall trends in Iraqi “hearts and minds,” but it also provided an important window into just how much Iraqis differ by major city and province."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Gale.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Annually-published update of West's Encyclopedia of American Law, covering emerging issues, developments in the U.S. Supreme Court, and related topics. Links to the current edition and previous editions are on this page.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

International Institute for Democratic and Electoral Essistance.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to collection.
Report "analyzes the party systems in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on external regulation, internal functioning, women’s participation and the impact of different electoral systems on the development of the party system. This publication detailed information about the state of political parties in this region and includes individual profiles of 18 countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia." Companion reports also are available on Africa and South Asia.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Available online
"The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

The world's largest unclassified collection of information on terrorism, the Global Terrorism Database, recently was made available to the public.
Its availability prompted Leyburn Library to create an online compilation of terrorism databases, including the GTB, which contain the quantitative data some W&L students have used for research projects.
This new page is now available in the library Web site.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to collection.
Sub-titled Political Landscape More Favorable to Democrats. "Increased public support for the social safety net, signs of growing public concern about income inequality, and a diminished appetite for assertive national security policies have improved the political landscape for the Democrats as the 2008 presidential campaign gets underway." Based on a survey of over 2,000 adults.
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