New for Politics

Congressional Quarterly Press.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Based on the third edition, this online edition contains "more than 175 tables and charts covering the office of the president from George Washington to George W. Bush, including data on the 2008 presidential primaries. The volume includes statistical coverage of public approval of the president, elections, vetoes, executive orders, foreign affairs, the executive branch, congressional and judicial relations, public appearances, and much more."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

The Washington and Lee University Library has acquired access to the online Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Digital Edition), part of the University of Virginia's Rotunda project.

Purchase of this great resource was made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the Library of Washington and Lee University.

According to the publisher, this "digital edition brings together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 into one searchable online resource. This content will be joined soon by the first four volumes of the Retirement Series sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which documents the time between Jefferson's return to private life and his death in 1826."
Entries may be browsed chronologically and the entire text is searchable by keyword.

Here is an example of a letter concerning Liberty Hall.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2009 volume covers 15 prominent pieces of U.S. legislation, in each case examining "the forces and circumstances that led to its enactment... and the impact of the legislation and its place in American history."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Cambridge University Press / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This 2009 volume "assesses the strength of the national legislature of every country in the world with a population of at least a half-million inhabitants. The Legislative Powers Survey (LPS), is a list of 32 items that gauges the legislature's sway over the executive, its institutional autonomy, its authority in specific areas, and its institutional capacity."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

New Strategist / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Fifth edition (2008) provides a broad overview of American public opinion, covering such areas as religion, race, family and friends, sexual attitudes, and more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

The Washington and Lee University Library continues to subscribe to the online Columbia International Affairs Online database, which "publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs."
Here is a list of what's new from CIAO.

This is just of several online resources we have for tapping the contents of think tank Web sites.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Available online.
"The first major evaluation of smart growth policies in the United States..., based on an analysis of empirical evidence using data from the US Census, Census of Government, Natural Resources Inventory, and many other sources, to determine whether four states with formal statewide smart growth policies -- Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon -- achieved the stated objectives of those policies."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.