New for Politics

I hope you have read Merrily Taylor's April 29 letter about the upcoming 12% reduction in the W&L University Library's subscriptions budget.
In short, this ain't going to be easy. We are working on the situation and have come up with a a first wave of cancellations, which include:

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Brill's New Pauly (print subscription)
Global Books in Print
International Medieval Bibliography (print subscription)
Press Display
Pro and Con Online
Resources for College Libraries
Writers Directory
World of Learning

microfilm subscriptions to:
Business Week
Forbes
New Yorker
Science News

The above gets us about 1/3 of the way to our needed cuts, and the process will get only more difficult. Please be assured that we will consult with you before considering the cancellation of any title which might directly affect you.
Please let me know if you have questions or comments.

Dick Grefe

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
Available online.
"This Handbook [250 pages] delves into a global comparison of direct democracy mechanisms, including referendums, citizens' initiatives, agenda initiatives and recall."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Available online.
"Some 74% of internet users--representing 55% of the entire adult population--went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election. This marks the first time that a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey has found that more than half of the voting-age population used the internet to get involved in the political process during an election year." You can read the report and download the dataset.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Pew Research Center.
Available online.
"The electorate in last year's presidential election was the most racially and ethnically diverse in U.S. history, with nearly one-in-four votes cast by non-whites, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center. The nation's three biggest minority groups -- blacks, Hispanics and Asians -- each accounted for unprecedented shares of the presidential vote in 2008."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

American Political Science Association.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
"Unlike the post-election disappointment that has followed many election outcomes, the Obama presidency will likely break through a structural bias in American politics favoring the status quo and bring about significant changes in policy. This prediction is made by a new study grounded in a scientific theory of politics and conducted by political scientist Jonathan Woon (University of Pittsburgh)" and is published in the April 2009 issue of PS: Political Science & Politics.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

RAND Corporation.
Available online.
"This book focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority and its administrator, L. Paul Bremer, who governed Iraq from May 2003 to June of the following year. It is based on interviews with many of those responsible for setting and implementing occupation policy, on the memoirs of American and Iraqi officials who have since left office, on journalists' accounts of the period, and on nearly 100,000 never-before-released CPA documents."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here. A printed copy has been ordered for the libary collection.