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US Political Science Reference Books
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Congressional Quarterly Almanac and CQ Almanac Plus
REF JK1 .C5
v.1 (1945) - v.62 (2006)
Congress and the Nation
REF JK1 .C65
v.1 (1945-1964) - v.11(2001-2004)
The Almanac of American Politics
REF JK6 .A4
Encyclopedia of Federal Agencies and Commissions
REF JK9 .H536 2004
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Politics
REF JK9 .H54 2001
Basic Documents of American Public Administration Since 1950
REF JK411 .B32 1982
United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860 : the Official Results by County and State
REF JK524 .D778 2002
The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004
REF JK524 .M48 2005
Women in the United States Congress, 1917-1972 : Their Accomplishments; with bibliographies
REF JK1030.A2 E5
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections
REF JK1967 .C662 2001
The Electoral Politics Dictionary
REF JK1971 .R46 1989
National Party Conventions, 1831-2000
REF JK2255 .N373 2001
Encyclopedia of American political history : studies of the principal movements and ideas
REF E183 .E5
Political facts of the United States since 1789
REF E183 .A97 1986
American political music : a state-by-state catalog of printed and recorded music related to local, state and national politics, 1756-2004
REF ML128.A54 C74 2006
Presidential winners and losers : words of victory and concession
REF E176.1 .V65 2002
The encyclopedia of American political history
REF E183 .E48 2001
Atlas of American politics, 1960-2000
REF G1201.F1 A8 2002
Rebels and renegades : a chronology of social and political dissent in the United States
REF HN90.R3 H354 2002
European Political Science Reference Books
Political handbook of Europe 2007
REF JN12 .P584 2007
The Oxford companion to twentieth-century British politics
REF DA566.7 .O88 2002
Political parties of Eastern Europe : a guide to politics in the post-Communist era
REF JN96.A979 B84 2002
A political chronology of Europe
REF D11 .P73 2001
European political facts, 1648-1789
REF JN9 .B3 1984
European political facts, 1789-1848
REF JN10 .C65 1981
European political facts, 1918-84
REF JN12 .C643 1986
Other Political Science Reference Books
The Europa world year book
REF JN1 .E82 2007
earlier editions: WCU GENERAL(+): 1989-2006
The Oxford companion to politics of the world
REF JA61 .O95 2001
Web Version
The Columbia dictionary of political biography
REF D108 .C65 1991
Political handbook of Asia 2007
REF JQ24 .P65 2007
Political handbook of Africa 2007
REF JQ1875 .P63 2007
A political chronology of Africa
REF DT17 .P65 2001
A political chronology of the Americas
REF E18.5 .P65 2001
A political chronology of Central, South and East Asia
REF DS341 .P655 2001
A political chronology of the Middle East
REF DS63.18 .P65 2001
Political handbook of the Middle East 2006
REF JQ1758.A58 P65 2006
International encyclopedia of environmental politics
REF GE170 .I55 2002
Political parties of the world
REF JF2051 .D39 2002
An encyclopedic dictionary of Marxism, socialism and communism …
REF HX17 .W54
Information sources of political science, 5th ed.
REF JA71.Z9 I543 2005
Encyclopedia of media and politics
REF P95.82.U6 E47 2007
Profiles of people in power : the world's government leaders
REF JF251 .E27 2003