You will provide information about your country’s current political structure. Who is the leader of your country? When were elections last held? When will they be held again? What is the capital of your country? Provide a picture of it in your paper.
Reference Materials
- Governments of the World Reference JF 127 .P56 1998
- Political Handbook of the World Reference JF 37 .P6 2007
- Political Parties of the World Reference JF 2051 .P655 2005
- World Encyclopedia of Parliaments and Legislatures Reference JF 511 .W67 1998
- World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and parties Reference JF 2011 .W67 2006
- Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics Reference F 1410 .E56 2002
Books
To locate books on the politics of your country do a subject seach in the Library Catalog.
These are some suggested searches:
| Search | Example
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| [country] | Brazil
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| [country] politics and government | Brazil politics and government
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| [name of politcal party] | African National Congress
|
Databases
- Academic OneFile
- Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
- Academic Search Complete
- This database offers thousands of full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines.
- Discovering Collection
- Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
- Christian Science Monitor
- Indexing and full text coverage of this national newspaper from 1988-present.
- History Study Center
- Primary and secondary history collections providing access to British, American and world history sources, full text articles and reference materials
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- New York Times and New York Times Historical
- Comprehensive coverage from 1851-present.
Web Resources
- BBC News: Country Profiles
- CIA: The World Factbook
- Country Studies
- These are the online equivalents of the Area Handbook Series mentioned above
- globalEDGE
- Rulers
- Historic and current world rulers. Includes daily updates.
- U S Department of State Background Notes
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