Political Science 435: Democracy and Development
in Latin America

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Interlibrary Loan

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.

Journal Articles 

This is a selection of sources. See also Latin American Studies
and Political Science.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Includes bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, and documents relating to political, economic, and social issues.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliographic citations to books and articles on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields.

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Broadly covers the social sciences, indexing over 2,700 journals and about 7,000 books each year.

Political Database of the Americas
Documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws,
legislative and executive branch information and election data.

Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
Country profiles, including: Membership, agreements and events, conflicts and peace keeping activities,
political system and country indicators, and other reference data.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Indexes 2,000 journals.

WDI Online (World Development Indicators)
A major source of statistics: you can select a country, the variables, and the years.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a full-text archive of important scholarly journal literature. You can limit your search to Latin American Studies journals.

Project Muse
Project Muse provides full text of 40 journls in the Humaniies and Social Sciences.

More Article Databases |  How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text?  | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?

Books 

Sample Subject Heading searches for books in the catalog:

Civil-military relations--Latin America
Democratization--Latin America
Democracy--Latin America
Democracy--Dominican Republic [any country name]--History
Human rights--Latin America
Latin America--Economic conditions 1982-
Latin America--Economic policy
Latin America--Social policy
Latin America--Foreign economic relations
Neoliberalism--Latin America
Latin America--Politics and government-1980-
Political Parties--Latin America
Political Parties--Argentina [any country name]
Political crimes and offenses
Civil rights and [any country name] (keyword)
Latin America--Relations--United States
United States--Relations--Latin America

Film Finder 

Film Finder
Search for films at the Media Resource Center (basement of Undergraduate Library) by country, title, release year, director, description, or genre.

The Institute for the Study of the Americas Film Collection
The Institute for the Study of the Americas houses a collection of videos/DVDs and resource materials.

Useful Websites

Country Reports on Human Rights Practice, U.S. Dept. of State.

Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Organization of American States

Portals to the World, Library of Congress.

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

News articles 

Latin America Database
A news and educational service on Latin America.

Latin American Newstand
Full-text in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Full text of major world newspapers. Enter search terms, Search within Major U.S. and World Newspapers, Specify date:
Previous week/previous month.

Print Sources

Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics

Political Handbook of the World

Google Scholar

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