New E-Resources at Northwestern

Roper Center For Public Opinion Research

Presents the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, a nonprofit research organization located at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Provides a history and overview of the Center. Describes the resources and services that are available. Offers access to the archives and publications of the Center. The data held range from the 1930s to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. Contains over 17,000 datasets. The iPOLL databank offers access to nearly half a million survey questions and answers asked in the US by more than 150 survey organizations. Direct links are given to study documentation and datasets ready for instant access and express downloading through RoperExpress.

Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Aktuelle Beiträge aus den Bereichen Volkswirtschaftslehre und Volkswirtschaftstheorie.

Current contributions from the areas of political economy and national economy theory.

Journal of Political Ideologies

The Journal of Political Ideologies is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology both in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and with reference to the nature and roles of concrete ideological manifestations and practices. The journal serves as a major discipline-developing vehicle for an innovative, growing and vital field in political studies, exploring new methodologies and illuminating the complexity and richness of ideological structures and solutions that form, and are formed by, political thinking and political imagination. Concurrently, the journal supports a broad research agenda aimed at building inter-disciplinary bridges with relevant areas and invigorating cross-disciplinary debate. – Publisher’s blurb.

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

The Journal of Information Technology & Politics examines how information technology (IT) impacts politics and government, how politics and government influence the development and use of IT, and how IT can be used to advance research and education, particularly in political science. – publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior

Focuses on American campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior but also provides a culturally and politically diverse perspective of American democratic practices and institutions. Offers a rich campaign history. Provides a description and scholarly analysis for all presidential elections, including state and general elections. Presents and simplifies complicated election laws that govern federal, state, and local elections. – Publisher’s blurb.

International Journal of Political Economy

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY publishes English translations of scholarly work from around the world on the themes of critical political economy: the conditions of economic growth; the role of finance; governmental intervention in the market economy; and theories of modernization and democratization. Each issue is devoted to a topic of basic theory or of empirical research.

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

The digitization of The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (CDPSP) Digital Archive is now complete.  With content never before available online, the digital archive illuminates key historical events and provides rich resources for researching the Cold War era from the Soviet perspective, when the government, culture, and peoples of the Soviet Union were almost totally inaccessible to the outside world. beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Rus in the new balance Encompassing the entire run of The Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, this massive English-language resource provides more than 70,000 articles of Soviet and Russian news and commentary, from 1949 to the present.

Peace Research Abstracts

Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including International Journal of Peace Studies, International Journal on World Peace, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

World Affairs

World Affairs is a small journal that argues the big ideas behind U.S. foreign policy. The journal celebrates and encourages heterodoxy and open debate. Recognizing that miscalculation and hubris are not beyond our capacity, we wish more than anything else to debate and clarify what America faces on the world stage and how it ought to respond.