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RAND Corporation.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the library collection.
Authors Diana Epstein and John D. Graham suggest "we need a better understanding of how polarization affects the quantity and substance of rulemaking, regulations, and judicial decisions. We also need to examine the effects of partisan polarization at the state and local levels of government, how much polarization complicates the conduct of defense and foreign policy, and precisely how polarization affects different policy areas."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Electronic book version of second edition (2007) contains essays which outline "the lives and ideas of some of the most influential figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day," such as Aristotle, Michel Foucault, Mohandas Gandhi, Machiavelli, Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
A link will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Leyburn Library is facing a price increase for three publications from the American Political Science Association:
American Political Science Review
PS: Political Science and Politics
Perspectives on Politics
We would like to reduce the impact of this price increase by subscribing only to the online forms of each of these journals. Such a move would not decrease our coverage of these journals; we would continue to have access to every issue of every year.
Would such a move be OK with the Politics faculty? Please let me know if you have objections or questions. Thanks.
Personal Democracy Forum.
Available online.
Recent winner of the Grand Prize in the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism and described as "a data-rich group blog that is breaking investigative stories, collecting voter generated content, and charting the metrics of a net-centric presidential campaign -- from tracking candidate video views on YouTube, the number of their "friends" on MySpace and Facebook, voter demands for appearances on Eventful, blog mentions on Technorati and voter-generated photos on Flickr."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
The New York Times has abandoned its online TimesSelect subscription program, which required payment for online access to such content as opinion columns and the paper's archive. (Users who had .edu e-mail addresses could apply for free access.)
As of yesterday, the vast majority of the Times' entire run is available without charge to online users. We have revised Leyburn Library's Web site page for the New York Times to reflect the changes.
Rumor has it the Wall Street Journal might be heading in the same direction.
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