New for Politics

For some time, Leyburn Library has maintained this page to help students and other researchers get to the contents of the Web sites of important "think tanks" and similar organizations.

We now have one more way to "get at" this content. Our own home-grown list of public policy groups now has its own Google-based search engine, which searches through over 140 of these sites.

I developed this search tool to help Washington Term students search for internship-related information from these important groups (searching for the word internship), but, of course, it can be used to find other terms on these Web sites as well.

Algora / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Intended to become an annual publication, this volume (2007) presents cross-national data in four sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960, and (4) Economic History since 1500.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

U.S. State Department.
Available online.
Annual report to Congress on countries and groups.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Greenwood.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2007 two-volume set (in one e-book) contains 600 terms which "identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Sage.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This 2008 two-volume set contains over 450 signed entries in such topic areas as presidential, state, and local elections, ballot issues, polls and public opinion, the mass media, and much more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
This report discusses historical national-security related presidential transition activities, provides a representative sampling of national security issues the next administration may encounter, and offers considerations and options relevant to each of the five phases of the presidential transition period.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

National Conference of State Legislatures.
Available online.
Overview of issues, resources, and legislation in U.S. state governments.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Greenwood.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2007 sourcebook "aims to enhance our understanding of the Islamist phenomenon by presenting some forty documents, written by Islamists themselves, which shed light on the origins, goals, and practices of Islamic-focused groups and movements throughout the Muslim world.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.