New for Politics

Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois.
Available online.
Study finds the ephemeral nature of documents presented online in the White House Web site. The authors "are the first to show a pattern of changes in documents over time, but note that others have, on previous occasions, pointed to suspicious changes to archived documents on the White House Web site."

Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.
Available online.
The Commission centered its findings on several areas where it determined the risks to the United States are increasing: the crossroads of terrorism and proliferation in the poorly governed parts of Pakistan, the prevention of biological and nuclear terrorism, and the potential erosion of international nuclear security, treaties and norms as we enter a nuclear energy renaissance.
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RAND Corporation.
Available online.   (A printed copy will be added to the library collection.)
Subtitled Terrorism, Piracy, and Challenges for the United States, this study by Peter Chalk reports that "acts of piracy and terrorism at sea are on the rise, but there is little evidence to support concerns from some governments and international organizations that pirates and terrorists are beginning to collude with one another."
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Greenwood.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
2008 volume offers "a concise and objective explanation of government operations, mapping the federal government's branches, departments, agencies, corporations, and quasi-official bodies, and the bureaucracies that support them."
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Greenwood.
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This 2008 volume contains about 250 entries which "are devoted to major thinkers, principal concepts and ideas, memorable phrases or maxims, and enduring ideological strains."
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Greenwood.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Three-volume set (2007) "summarizes the history and current status of issues involving the separation of church and state through chapters examining the backgrounds, relevant constitutional concerns, and variety of perspectives on specific controversies."
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Gale.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
W&L now has online access to the most recent edition (2008) of this annual update to West's Encyclopedia of American Law. The Yearbook updates earlier coverage and introduces emerging issues.
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Lexington Books / NetLibrary.
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2008 guide to the electoral process in 22 countries, looking at "not only the type of electoral system in these countries," but also who administers elections; which are the offices people can vote for, who is allowed to vote, political and financial regulations, and voter turnout.
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Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set, published in 2008, contains about 600 signed entries covering "major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the thorny issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses."
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