New for Politics

Cambridge University Press.
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Based on the Cambridge Companions series, this ever-growing database currently contains over 2,000 essays offering "introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods." It includes the contents of over 290 volumes in the Cambridge Companions series in Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Pew Forum on Religion & Public.
Available online.
Survey data indicate "While the U.S. is generally considered a highly religious nation, African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole, including level of affiliation with a religion, attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer and religion's importance in life."
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Cambridge University Press / Cambridge Collections Online.
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This 2006 volume, edited by Cheryl Welch, "contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville."
You can search the contents of this and over 290 other volumes in Cambridge Collections Online.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

U.K. House of Lords.
Available online.
"This new report considers the implications of the Georgia conflict for EU-Russia relations. We also look at other recent developments, such as the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, the downturn in the Russian economy and wider questions of European security. "
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Washington and Lee University Library.
Available online.
Collection of sites, each of which offers interrnational coverage of corruption as a political/social/economic issue, including descriptions and even ratings of corruption in individual countries.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.