Subject Guide Political Science

Shortened print version of the subject guide political science (PDF)

Databases

• Sowiport
  The social science portal brings together and links quality information from German and international providers
• Socindex with Full Text
  Report period from 1908 on
• Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung und zur Theorie und Praxis der politischen Linken (BizGA)
  The database reports since 1976 monographs and journal articles on the history of the German labour movement and trade unions
• Bibliographie Deutsche Aussenpolitik
  Systematic and historical bibliography on German foreign policy since 1949, compiled by the chair of international relations of Trier University
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
  Accessible throughout Germany. - Information
• DIP - Dokumentations- und Informationssystem für parlamentarische Vorgänge
  Collective information system of Bundestag and Bundesrat which provides access to different full text databases
• GovLit Literature Database
  Bibliographic database of publications on EU governance
• Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (IBLK)
  The database provides literature records (mainly book and journal articles) since 1980 on international policy, security and economic relations, but also on foreign policy of separate countries
• Parlit Database
  Database of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Legal texts, EU Law: see also our Subject guide Law

Journal Articles

• Online Contents SSG Political Science and Peace Research
  Bibliographical research (amongst others, on political education and research on political parties) on approx. 880,000 journal articles from approx. 824 journals
• Online Contents SSG Contemporary History
  The database, updated weekly, contains approx. 229,000 journal articles and reviews on contemporary history from more than 250 journals since 1993, partly since 1945

Electronic Full Texts

• Comintern Electronic Archives
  Accessible throughout Germany: Information on Comintern Electronic Archives
• Digital National Security Archive - Documents that made U.S. Policy
  Accessible throughout Germany: Information on Digital National Security Archive. - The U.S. Digital National Security Archive is the largest collection of essential primary documents on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. The database, composed of 20 collections, contains more than 50,000 of the most important declassified documents
• The Making of the Modern World - Accessible throughout Germany: Information on The Making of the Modern World
• Datenhandbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Bundestages 1990 - 2010
  Full text version of the fact book with register, tables and statistics. The fact book keeps records of all relevant data and facts for the period mentioned
• Online-Lexika Politik
  The reference works of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung provide information on concepts, persons, countries and institutions of politics, economics and culture
• Deutscher Bundestag: Drucksachen und Protokolle
  Printed Bundestag papers and minutes
• Parlamentsspiegel
  Documents of the parliaments of the German federal states since 1980
• FES-Net-Source: History and Politics
  The Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation provides selected documents and publications in historical and political sciences
• Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
  The official collection of final judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court is accessible since 1998

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