Political Science

Sovereign Limits is a detailed digital repository mapping out every internationally recognized land and maritime border. It offers both an interactive web map and downloadable GIS data. Each border in the database is accompanied by a “Boundary Brief,” which outlines the boundary’s history, key legal/treaty documents, and annotated maps. 

The Annual Reviews are peer-reviewed academic journals that publish comprehensive and critical literature review articles in many academic disciplines. The Annual Review of Political Science publishes literature reviews of major developments across the field, including political theory, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration, public policy, and research methodology.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive public policy resource for the study and practice of international relations, global policy, and diplomacy. Developed by Columbia University Press, CIAO provides scholarly journals, policy briefs, conference proceedings, working papers, and e-books produced by leading think tanks, research institutes, and publishers worldwide. CIAO also provides case studies, country profiles, and interactive datasets.

EBSCO Political Science Complete is a full-text research database providing comprehensive coverage of political science literature, including journals, books, conference papers, and other publications. It encompasses various sub-disciplines within political science, such as political theory, comparative politics, international relations, public administration, and more.

Overton is the world’s largest database for tracking the influence of research on public policy. Overton provides policy documents, official reports, guidelines, and parliamentary records from governments, think tanks, and international organizations worldwide. It has the largest collection of policy-related material, hard-to-find resources, and gray literature linked to academic research.

The PAIS® Index is a public policy database that tracks scholarship and policy research in public affairs, social sciences, and international relations. First developed in 1914 to organize literature on important public issues, PAIS provides a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical reports, conference proceedings, and gray literature from around the world.

Policy Commons is a database that provides access to policy reports, working papers, briefs, and other publications from think tanks, NGOs, research institutes, and international organizations. It contains millions of documents covering topics such as economics, governance, environment, health, and international affairs. It also includes archived content from organizations that no longer maintain their own websites.

Policy File Index is a ProQuest database that provides public policy research and analysis produced by think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, and university centers. It covers topics such as economics, foreign policy, security, environment, education, and social issues. It also includes materials such as policy briefs, reports, and working papers, which are primarily published in the United States.

The Political Science Network  sits on SSRN  an online repository and preprint server where researchers can upload working papers. It is an open-access service that provides “early print” research and working papers before they are published in journals. SSRN includes exploratory investigations, book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations, and research posters.

ProQuest’s Political Science is a major political science database providing access to high-quality, full-text articles from over 500 leading scholarly, peer-reviewed political science and international relations journals. ProQuest Political Science also provides access to recent, full-text political science dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities and current working papers from the Political Science Research Network.

ProQuest Trends and Policy compiles primary source documents related to U.S. government policy. It includes congressional hearings, committee prints, reports, legislative research studies, and other materials that document the development of public policy over time. The resource is organized around the following key topics:  Civil Rights, Civil Criminal Justice, Environment, Healthcare, Immigration, Taxes, and the IRS.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration. 67% of the monitored journals are published outside the United States, and nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Coverage includes general political science, international relations, and comparative politics.

The American Political Science Review is the most cited journal in the field of political science, publishing peer-reviewed research and review essays across all major subfields, including political theory, American politics, public policy, public administration, comparative politics, and international relations.

The American Journal of Political Science publishes research across all major areas of political science, including American politics, public policy, international relations, comparative politics, methodology, and political theory, advancing knowledge of citizenship, governance, and politics.

The Journal of Politics, published for the Southern Political Science Association, is a general-interest political science journal featuring diverse research from all major subfields, including American politics, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and methodology.

International Organization (IO) is a top peer-reviewed journal in international affairs. It publishes articles that develop broad theories, advance social science research, and present new empirical findings on the wide range of topics that shape international relations and global politics.

Comparative Political Studies is a leading journal in comparative politics, publishing research on methodology, theory, and cross-national political issues. It provides in-depth analyses on a wide range of topics, including democratic consolidation, electoral systems, human rights, regional integration, and political economy.

The Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) is a leading publication in public policy, European politics, and EU studies. It publishes analytical, theoretical, and methodological articles that explore the dynamics of public policy in Europe through a variety of social science approaches. 

The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART), the official journal of the Public Management Research Association, is a top publication in public administration, featuring high-quality theoretical and empirical research. Multidisciplinary in scope, it covers organizational, managerial, administrative, and policy-based studies that advance public administration theory.

Political Psychology, the journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, explores the intersection of psychology, politics, and governance. It publishes high-quality research using a wide range of methods and topics, from studies of public opinion and political elites to analyses of democratic and non-democratic systems and international relations.

The Annual Reviews are peer-reviewed academic journals that publish comprehensive and critical literature review articles in many academic disciplines. The Annual Review of Political Science publishes literature reviews of major developments across the field, including political theory, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration, public policy, and research methodology.

Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) offers high-quality interdisciplinary research. It publishes influential theoretical work on opinion and communication, analyses of public opinion, and studies on survey methodology, including sampling, questionnaire design, interviewing, and administration methods.