LibGuides: Schwartz Discover Scholars: Political Science/International Relations

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DiscoverUR
The public search interface for all University or Rochester Libraries. It is a discovery layer rather than a single catalog, see What is a discovery layer? for more info.

Political Science Complete and Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Full text searching. Many titles include entire back file. Downloading as PDF and Text is limited to a maximum of 200 pages.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Abstracts included from 1994-current; full text for many articles from 1994-current.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Includes some links to full text.

Political Science Resources A-Z
Check out this longer list of databases that might be useful for your research.

Policy aggregators

Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
Access research, policy reports, and other grey literature from think tanks, research institutes, nongovernmental organizations, and more.
PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
Research publications from U.S. and international think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers
Includes demographic, business and census data with abstracts and updated weekly. Profile provides users with web links to contributing organization's home page, email address, scholar biographies and full text.
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Be sure to select "Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports 2004-Present" as the document type on the toolbar on the left.
Also includes full text of the Congressional Record, legislative histories, committee information, member biographies, legislative news, the U.S. code, court decisions and the Congressional Information Service (CIS) index.

everycrsreport.com
CRS Reports available to the public. Reports are arranged by policy topics and are keyword searchable.
Find Policy
Search for topics in leading policy research organizations.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Policy Archive
Includes public policy research containing over 30,000 documents. Documents are authored by think tanks, NGOs, CRS and university centers.
Stateline - Pew Research Daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy

Think Tanks

Think tanks are policy research institutes that engage in policy research and analysis, and often advocate solutions. Many think tanks are non-profit organizations promoting social and economic justice and reforms, while others are funded institutes partisan in purpose providing solutions to the best interest of funding agencies, political parties and governments, etc.

American Policy Directory (Univ. of Oregon)
From the University of Oregon Libraries, search think tank sites grouped by topic.
findpolicy.org
Search think tank sites grouped by topic. Search page focuses on 14 leading think tanks that work on "public policy" (education, law & justice, urban issues, and many more) with a focus on the United States.
NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks (NWDTT)
Directory of think tanks indexed by country.
Think Tank Rankings (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
TTCSP Global Go To Think Tank Index
TTCSP Global Go To Think Tank Reports Index
the result of an international survey of over 1,950 scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who helped rank more than 6,500 think tanks using a set of 18 criteria developed by the TTCSP.
Think Tank Repository (EU)
Repository of think tank publications on EU affairs from the Library of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU.
Think Tank Search (Harvard)
A Google Custom Search of more than 700 think tanks and research centers. Plus information on evaluating think tanks.
NCSL State Policy Research
Covers a variety of areas ranging from agriculture and budget and tax issues and education to health care and immigration and transportation.

Polling Data (U.S. and International)

American National Elections Studies ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years and carries out research and development work through pilot studies in odd-numbered years." 1948-
ABC News & Washington Post News Polls (U.S.)
Ipsos Polls (U.S. & Canada)
Associated Press Poll Data (U.S.)
CBS News Poll Database (U.S.)
FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls and uses statistical analysis to tell stories about elections, sports, economics, etc
FOX News Polls (U.S.)
General Social Survey A standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest, that has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.
New York Times Polls (U.S.)
Polling Report Polls from over 36 sources, including Gallup, Harris, Pew Research, and media orgs. Recent polls listed on homepage; to browse by topic, use links for Politics and Policy, Business/Economy, or The American Scene on the left. Some info only for subscribers.

Roper Center for Public Opinion - iPOLL This link opens in a new window Survey results, questionnaires, and possible dataset download option for an extensive collection of public opinion polls.

Roper US Elections Exit Poll Data Primary, national, and state exit polling data for presidential elections from 1976 to the present.
Washington Post Polls (U.S.)
National Opinion Research Center (U.S.)

International

AFRO Barometer (International)
ASEP/JDS data bank Provides social science statistical data and survey data files for the following collections: • The Values Surveys • Immigrants Collection • Latinobarómetro • 'The Public Opinion of Spaniards' survey (ASEP, Spain) • Afrobarometer • CIRES (Centre for Research on the Social Reality) • East-Asian Barometer • Centre for the Study of the Contemporary Reality (CERC) • Comparative Studies on Electoral Systems (CSES) • Globalbarometer • Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos • International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
Canadian Opinion Research Archive
LAPOP-Latin American Public Opinion Project (International)
Latinobarometro (International)
Odum Institute of for Research in Social Science Data Archive
Access national and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, public opinion and other types of data
Pew Research Data (International)
World Public Opinion.org (International)
World Values Survey (International)

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