Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Fourth edition is a "compilation of CQ voting studies and interest group rating data for every legislator who has served in Congress from 1947 to 2004."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Available online.
"A study of voter-registration efforts at Northwestern University has concluded that students make strategic choices about where to vote, noting that students from swing states in the 2008 presidential election overwhelmingly chose to cast absentee ballots rather than to register to vote near the campus." (description from the Chronicle of Higher Education_
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.
Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This 2009 volume contains biographies on each of the 52 Speakers, as well as historical essays, primary source documents, and more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.
Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Third edition (2007) surveys about 100 nations, summarizing constitutional history and salient points of the latest form of the document. However, to see the actual complete texts of constitutional documents, check the University of Richmond's Constitution Finder.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.
Oxford University Press / Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Five-volume set (2009) contains over 300 signed, alphabetically-arranged entries, providing "situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.
This page contains all entries posted to New for Politics in October 2009. They are listed from oldest to newest.
September 2009 is the previous archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.