Research Guides: Politics: Books and Articles

Top Politics Databases

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science Core) This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal literature in the social sciences. Dates of coverage: 1900 to present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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.
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest.
This resource is not part of the depository library program.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Bibliographies presents constantly updated articles that contain citations (with annotations) and commentaries for sources across the disciplines. Users can search topics and gather relevant journal article and book citations, online resources, data sources, and more.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR is a social science repository that includes curated data sets pertaining to many disciplines within the social sciences. ICPSR contains original codebooks and descriptions of methodology, offers multiple file format downloads, and links data to relevant scholarly research. Users can search at the variable level and trace datasets to their use in academic publications. The archive also includes data-driven learning guides for those teaching with data.
Users need to login to access. Use the single sign-in with Google and when prompted, use NetID credentials.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core provides access to all of the Cambridge University Press content, including books and journals, that NYU accesses.
Duke University Press This link opens in a new window
Duke University Press is a single-search portal into the ebooks and journals content published by Duke University Press. Users may browse and discover ebooks and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Recommended Methods Guides

Causal Inference: What If
This book provides a cohesive presentation of concepts and methods for causal inference. Much of this material is currently scattered across journals in several disciplines or confined to technical articles. We expect that the book will be of interest to anyone interested in causal inference, e.g., epidemiologists, statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, computer scientists.