LBST D502 Politics & Society 

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Searchable books available in this database include:

Public Opinion, Polling, and Democracy Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia

• Review of public opinion from its roots in colonial America to its role in today's emerging democracies
• Top scholars examine the 200-year history of public opinion, measurement methodologies with an emphasis on telephone interviews and Internet polls and analysis of theories compares schools of thought

The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science

Dictionary of Politics and Government

CQ Almanac

• Election Results and Analysis section highlights major historical developments and disputes
• Covers national and state level elections
• From 1945 to 2006

Vital Statistics on American Politics

• Focus on trends in elections and political parties, public opinion and voting
• Includes downloadable data and charts

CQ Weekly

• Reports on the United States Congress completely and accurately every week
• Includes the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes
• Covers 1983 to present while the print version is available 1967 to 1982 (Periodicals JK1 .C15)

CQ Politics in America

• Includes district maps, state facts and statistics, and district profiles for U.S. senators and representatives
• Covers 2000 (106th Congress) to 2006 (109th Congress)
• Print version can be found on the 3rd floor of the library (Stacks JK1012 .C63)

Almanac of State Legislatures: Changing Patterns 1990-1997 (Reference G1201.F7 L5 1998) charts population by race, unemployment rate, average income, and college education for each state's legislative districts.

Atlas of American Politics 1960-2000 (Reference G1201.F1 A8 2002) displays in map form presidential elections and makeup of congress, federal administration, judiciary, state and local government and social and economic characteristics.

The Historical Atlas of State Power 1790-1990 (Reference G1201.F7 M3 1993)

Political Parties

Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols (Reference JK2261 .P633 1991)

• Provides short articles with brief references
• Includes details of political affiliation and political party identification

Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party, 2 vols. (Reference JK2352 .K87 1997)

• Provides history, issues, and ideology of the party and brief biographical and bibliographical references

Encyclopedia of the Republican Party, 2 vols. (Reference JK2352 .K87 1997)

Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America, 3 vols. (Reference JK2261 .E474 2000)

• Provides history, issues, and ideology of the party and brief biographical and bibliographical references

Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress 1789-1989 (Atlas Stand G1201.F9 M26 1989)

Political Parties and Civic Action Groups (Reference JK2260 .S36 1981)

• Provides concise histories with recommendations for further reading

Public Interest Group Profiles 2004-2005 (Reference JK1118 .P79 2004-2005)

• Arranged alphabetically by group each entry includes the purpose, concerns, method of operations, effectiveness and political orientation, publications, funding source and contact information.

Historical

Convention Decisions and Voting Records (Reference JK2255 .B3 1973) provides an overview of party convention rules, platforms and votes 1789-1972.

National Party Conventions 1831-1976 (Reference JK2255 .C66 1979) provides summary of votes.

National Party Platforms 1840-1968 (Reference JK2255 .P6 1970) provides reprints of text of party platforms.

Democratic Party. National Convention Proceedings, 1832-1968, 7 rolls (Government Publications Microfilm cabinet) primary source text of proceedings.

Republican Party. National Convention Proceedings, 1856-1968, 3 rolls (Government Publications Microfilm cabinet) primary source text of proceedings.

Public Opinion

American Attitudes: Who Thinks What About the Issues that Shape Our Lives (Reference HN90.P8 O38)

• Provides data from the General Social Surveys of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center from 1970s to 2002

American Generations Series

• American Generations (Reference HC110.C6 M545 5th ed. 2005)
• Americans 55 & older (Reference HQ1064.U5 A66 2001)
• The Baby Boom: Americans aged 35 to 54 (Reference HN60 .R868 2001)
• The Millennials: Americans born 1977 to 1994 (Reference HQ796 .M4797 2004)
• Generation X: Americans aged 18 to 34 (Reference HC110 .C6 M544 2001)

Gallup Poll Public Opinion, 1935-2003 (Reference HN90 .P8 G17)

• Provides text and results of all polls taken

American Social Attitudes Data Sourcebook 1947-1978 (Reference HN65 .A6819)

• Trends in attitudes toward race, family, work, government, etc.
• Data compiled by the Institute for Social Research

Trends in Public Opinion: A Compendium of Survey Data (Reference HN90.P8 N53 1989)

• Includes over-time survey data from the General Social Surveys and other recognized polls with tables from 1930s-1988

Elections - General

America Votes: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics, 15 vols (Reference JK1967 .A8 1956-1982)

• Includes election results for president, congress, and state governor by county, and legislators by congressional district and county.

American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, 1952-1986 (Reference JK1967 .M54 1989)

• Includes data on the social characteristics of the electorate, party identification ideology
• Evaluations of politicians, positions on public policy issues, support of the political system, election involvement and turnout, voting, and attitudes toward Congress.

Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, 2 vols. (Reference JK1967 .C662 2001)

• Provides encyclopedic analysis and tables of election results

Election Data Book: A Statistical Portrait of Voting in America 1992 (Reference JK1967 .E44 1992)

• Includes data on population by race and ethnic origin, age, vote participation by Congressional District and county

Elections A-Z (Reference JK1976 .M57 1999)

• Contains brief articles and several useful appendices including election statistics

How to Research Elections (Reference JK1976.R4 M37 2000)

International Almanac of Electoral History (Reference JF1001 .M17 1974B)

• Compilation of election results in Western countries since the beginning of competitive national elections

International Encyclopedia of Elections (Reference JF1001 .I57 2000)

• Includes scholarly articles and significant bibliographic references.

Statistical History of the American Electorate (Reference JK1967 .R87 2001)

• Includes information on the accuracy and inaccuracy of election data, who is allowed to vote, who goes to the polls, presidential, congressional, and governor election results.

Elections - Congressional

Campaign '78: A Comprehensive Political Handbook (Reference JK1968 1978 .M57) includes data on congressional and governor elections.

Congressional Districts in the 1980s (Reference JK1341 .C63 1983) provides a statistical and analytical overview of redistricting following the 1980 census.

Congressional Districts in the 1990s (Reference JK1341 .C64 1993) provides a statistical and analytical overview of redistricting following the 1990 census.

Congressional Districts in the 2000s (Reference JK1341 .C65 2003) provides a statistical and analytical overview of redistricting following the 2000 census.

Historical Atlas of State Power in Congress, 1790-1990 (Reference G1201.F7 M3 1993) maps every
apportionment change for each state and region.

Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts 1789-1983 (Atlas Stand G1201.F9 M3 1982)

• Maps all congressional districts and representatives elected to Congress with the proper state and congressional district affiliations for every city, county, and state in the U.S.

United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 The Official Results (Reference JK1967 .D77 1998)

Elections - Presidential

America at the Polls John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush: A Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics (Reference JK524 .M33 2001)

• Provides election totals and percentages by party for state and counties

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections, 3 vols. (Reference JK1965 .A57 2003)

Disputed Presidential Election of 2000 (Reference JK526 .D68 2003)

• Provides a chronology of events, biographies of major players, and primary documents

Presidency: A Research Guide (Reference JK516) see chapter on elections.

Presidential Elections since 1789 (Reference JK524 .P68 1991)

• Provides total popular and electoral votes for each candidate per state

Presidential Primaries and Caucuses 1992: A Handbook of Election Statistics (Reference JK522 .M34 1992)

• Provides total registered voters, total vote and percentage for each party candidate by state.

Source Book of American Presidential Campaign and Election Results 1948-1968 (Reference JK524 .R83)

• Provides coverage of time and costs of media exposure, campaign expenses, and public opinion polls

U.S. Presidential Candidates and Elections: a Biographical and Historical Guide, 2 vols. (Reference JK528 .H38 1996)

• Provides for each election names of candidates, votes, party platforms and brief biographical information

Vital Statistics on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton (Reference JK518 .R34 1995)

• Provides a compilation of a variety of data on party conventions, elections, public opinion, and public appearances

Using IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog), you can locate more books in Helmke Library in either print or electronic format. You can also find electronic documents and government hearings and reports through IUCAT.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• Journals, peer-reviewed journals, books, and chapters/essays
• Covers 1975 to present

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For a more precise search use Descriptors such as "voting behavior" and "political parties." Use this strategy from the Advanced Search or within search results.

Social Science Citation Index available through Web of Science

• Search through articles from a range of scholarly journals
• Each record indexes every source article's entire list of cited references or bibliographic footnotes
• From 1995 to present

America: History and Life

• Provides citations and abstracts from over 1,800 journals covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
• Includes indexing of books, book reviews, and dissertations
• Covers 1954 to present

LexisNexis Academic

• Full-text access newspapers, news magazines, wire services, and transcripts of major radio and TV broadcasts
• Full-text source of legal information such as law reviews and Federal and state law

There are many tools available that will help you analyze a dataset online without having to use specialized software. The online analysis system allows you to run both simple and complex analyses, recode and compute new variables, and subset variables or cases for downloading. The software powering the system, named Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA), was developed by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• Largest archive of digital social science data for research and instruction
• Offers online data analysis components for selected data collections using two data analysis systems: Survey Documentation Analysis (SDA), and Nesstar
• 451 datasets are available for online data analysis with SDA

American National Election Studies

• Conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years
• Research and development work through pilot studies in odd-numbered years
• Online analysis tools available

PEW Research Center for the People and the Press

• Presents results of polls regarding elections and political issues from 1987 to the present

 Voting and Registration Information

• Reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics 1998-2006

American FactFinder

• Data and basic reference maps from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Census of population and housing, Economic Census, the American Community Survey (1996 to present)

Elections, Campaigns and Redistricting (National Conference of State Legislatures)

• Provides historical information on state elections from 1998 to present

Federal Election Commission

• Campaign Finance Reports and Data combines 25 years of campaign finance data into one database
• Voter registration and turnout statistics since 1960

Historical Voting Tables - Congressional Elections

• Provides census data on registration and voting since 1966

IFES (International Foundation for Election Systems)

• Supplies, since 1987, world governments with election observation and analysis

Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics

• Includes election results by precinct for federal, state, and local elections 1994 to present

National Annenberg Election Survey (Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania)

• Emphasis on the effects of media exposure - campaign commercials and news from radio, television and newspapers.
• Measures the effects of media and other kinds of political communication, from conversations at home and on the job to various efforts by campaigns to influence potential voters.

Political Science Resources: United States Politics (University of Michigan)

• Provides a research guide to both electronic and print materials available at the University of Michigan, especially U.S. Politics and Elections

Psephos-Adam Carr's Election Archive

• Largest, most comprehensive and most up-to-date archive of electoral information in the world, with election statistics from 163 countries.

Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD)

• Includes election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation.

U.S. Electoral College (National Archives and Records Administration)

• Provides official electoral results for all elections since 1789

Frequently recommended style guide Kate Turabian's A Manual For Writers Of Term Papers, Thesis, And Dissertations. The latest edition of Turabian is located at the Service Desk (Reference LB2369 .T8 1996).

For your other options visit UC Berkeley Library: Style Sheets for Citing Resources: Examples and General Rules for MLA, APA, Chicago & Turabian Styles