Political Science Journals, Magazines, and Newsletters
Available Electronically or Over the Web
- Electronic Journals Available to the MSU Community
- Additional Web Journals Available Over the Web
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- Journal Impact Factor : Political Science
- Electronic Journals Available to the MSU Community
Electronic Journals in Political Science
http://www.lib.msu.edu/dbases/ejour/political_science.htm
A compilation of electronic journals available to the MSU Community primarily through subscription arrangements by the MSU Libraries. Note access restriction statements.
American Diplomacy (Full Text)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/
An electronic journal of commentary, analysis, and research on American foreign policy and its practice. Produced by the University of North Carolina Triangle Institute for Security Studies. Archives for issues back to volume 1, number 1, in September 1996 are available.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
American Political Science Review (APSR) (Selected Articles Only)
http://www.apsanet.org/section_327.cfm
The American Political Science Review (APSR) continues to be the foremost scholarly research journal of political science. It ranks number 1 out of 79 political science journals according to the ISI Journal Citation Report - 2004 Social Science Citation Index. APSR presents peer-reviewed research articles by political scientists of all subfields. Areas covered include political theory, American politics, public policy, public administration, and international relations.
This web page provides the table of contents and selected articles from the latest issue. APSA members and subscribers have full access; others can access the table of contents and a few selected articles from the latest issue.
Also available in the MSU Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
The American Spectator Online
http://www.spectator.org/
Since 1967 the American Spectator has been publishing innovative reporting and irreverent yet thoughtful commentary on politics and culture. This web site also provides access to back issues.
Also available to the MSU Community as part of our Proquest subscription.
This journal is also available in paper format in the MSU Libraries under the call number AP2 .A275. Check Magic for locations and holdings.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
The Atlantic (Current and Back Issues)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/backissues.htm
Browse back issues of The Atlantic Monthly that have appeared on the Web. From November 1995 to the present, the archive is essentially complete, with the exception of a few articles, the online rights to which are held exclusively by the authors.
This journal is also available in paper and microform format in the MSU Libraries under the call number AP2 .A8. Check Magic for locations and holdings.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Ballot Access News (Full Text)
http://www.ballot-access.org/
Welcome to the OFFICIAL online home of Ballot Access News, a non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations of folks trying to put candidates on the ballot in the United States of America. There are many surprisingly restrictive ballot access laws in this country, which the average voter has no knowledge or conception of; part of our purpose here (besides reporting on progress made) is to report on these restrictive ballot access laws so that more people are aware of them. Also contains a Presidential Status page and a page providing the vote totals for the 1996 presidential race, including totals for all candidates who were on the ballot. Edited and published by Richard Winger, the nation's leading expert on ballot access legal issues.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century (Full Text)
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ka.cfm?kaid=132
A policy journal for the Information Age produced by the The Democratic Leadership Council. In the coming months, Blueprint will address the major challenges facing America as it enters the 21st century. Drawing from America's most cutting-edge thinkers, Blueprint will transcend the stale "left" versus "right" debate with a Third Way of innovative, groundbreaking policy ideas. Each issue of Blueprint will focus on one important policy issue, with the goal of spurring the type of meaningful debate sorely lacking today in Washington. The ideas in every issue of Blueprint will shape the political debate in the 2000 campaign and beyond. Featuring the work of some of America's most cutting-edge thinkers, Blueprint will tackle such topics as:
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Boston Review : A Political and Literary Forum (Full Text)
http://www.bostonreview.net/
The Boston Review combines commitments to public reason and literary imagination. Putting politics and poetry on the same page, we anticipate a world that is at once more democratic and imaginative than our own; treating each as an autonomous value, we explode conventional stereotypes about politicos and aesthetes. We are a magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas, and we take that designation seriously: Our intellectual range distinguishes us from any political journal or literary quarterly, while our seriousness of purpose sets us apart from other general interest magazines.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Campaigns and Elections: The Magazine for People in Politics (Full Text)
http://www.campaignline.com/
Provides selected articles as well as subscription information. By Congressional Quarterly.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Canadian Journal of Political Science (Table of Contents Only)
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CJP
CJPS is the primary outlet in Canada for refereed scholarship in political science. Published quarterly, it presents articles, notes, commentaries and book reviews in English and in French on all areas of political science, including manuscripts on the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, international relations and foreign policy, governmental institutions and processes, political behaviour, public administration and public policy. Web site provides a table of contents with abstracts from Volume XXVI, No. 1 (1993) on. Also provides a cumulative author index. Sponsored by the Canadian Political Science Association.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
CATO Briefing Papers
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/briefingpapers.html
(Last checked 09/30/09)
CATO Foreign Policy Briefing
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/foreignbriefs.html
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Cato Journal: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cato_journal.html
Vol. 14, no. 1 on.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Cato Policy Report
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-index.html
Provides a selection of articles going back to the November/December 1994 issue.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
CATO Project on Social Security Privatization
http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/sspstudies.html
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Child Welfare Review
http://www.childwelfare.com/kids/news.htm
Children are our future. Our interest is to provide you with a gateway to information related to the welfare of children. In this effort we have developed an electronic journal, Child Welfare Review, and a Library, a resource on issues related to sources on child welfare.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Covert Action Quarterly
http://MediaFilter.org/MFF/CAQ_Contents.html
Provides in-depth international coverage, investigating and documenting issues wherever the hands of Western intelligence services can be found and exposed. The web site provides a table of contents service, plus offers selected articles (minus footnotes) available online. If you spot an article you want to read that is available only in the print edition, visit the MSU Libraries Special Collections American Radicalism Collection.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Critique: A Worldwide Student Journal of Politics (Full Text)
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/
Spring 2001 to date.
Critique provides a forum for graduate and undergraduate students of politics to express and exchange diverse ideas and to imagine new possibilities for democracy and justice. The electronic format of Critique provides an alternative venue that expands political debate by
creating space for the emergence of new ideas. The first edition is composed of winning papers from the 9th Annual Illinois Conference for Students of Political Science, held on April 5, 2001 at Illinois State University. Sponsored by Illinois State University.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
The Defense Monitor (Full Text)
http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=75
This new free electronic publication by the Center for Defense Information will bring readers a few short articles on various military and foreign affairs issues each week. Recent articles have covered such topics as child combatants, trading with the enemy, terrorism, the cruise missile, is the United States isolating itself by refusing to sign international treaties, etc.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
DisInformation
http://www.disinfo.com/
The search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media conglomerates. The goal is to get users to the information they seek, in the fastest, most efficient way possible. To that end, we're linking to a smaller, higher quality pool of websites, so someone looking for up-to-date 'alternative' news on the situation in Bosnia, for example, won't have to sift through endless webpages which say something like 'Hi, I'm Dave. I think it's terrible what's going on in Bosnia. Here's a picture of my dog.' Primarily the database draws from quality news sources such as Time Magazine's on-line component, Hot Wired, CNN, etc., 'liberal' newsources like The Nation, and Atlantic Monthly, alternative sites like Z-Net and Mother Jones' 'MoJo Wire, and other e-zines and websites we found interesting, provocative and essential. Major categories to choose from include: propaganada, revolutionaries, censorship, counterculture, counterintelligence, and newspapeak. There is also a search engine.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Drudge Report
http://www.drudgereport.com/
The current dirt on politics, news events, and personalities.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Federal Communications Law Journal (Full Text)
http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/index.shtml
Published jointly by the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and the Federal Communications Bar Association. Volume 46, no. 1, December 1993 to date. Focuses on both legal and public policy issues related to communications, journalism, and telecommunications.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Federal Times Online
http://www.federaltimes.com/
The independent weekly for federal employees.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Firstline Midwest
http://www.csgmidwest.org/MemberServices/Publications/Firstline.htm
Council of State Governments.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Foreign Affairs Table of Contents Service
http://fullaccess.foreignaffairs.org/
Gives table of contents from the most recent issue plus selected full text articles and/or previews (abstracts) of others.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Foreign Policy In Focus Briefs
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/
A series of In Focus briefs dealing with the various aspects of U.S. foreign policy sponsored by the Institute of Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center. Volume 1 began in 1996.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Foreign Service Journal (Selected articles)
http://www.afsa.org/fsj/current.cfm
Read the latest issue of the Foreign Service Journal covering foreign affairs from an insider's perspective. The Journal keeps readers informed about who's who and what's what in foreign affairs in Washington as well as features how-tos on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional. Includes the latest issue, plus back issues for 2000-2004.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Gallup Organization Gallup Polls
http://www.gallup.com/
The world's premier source for public opinion data since 1935. Click here for the most recent Gallup Polls, special reports, or to take part in a poll. Updated regularly.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
GovExec.Com
http://www.govexec.com/
Online version of Government Executive: the Independent Business Magazine of Government. Archival articles go back to January 1996.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
http://www.governing.com/
A leading source of information about state and local government. Includes highlights from current and recent issues of the magazine, plus Wonk Heaven, an extensive set of web sites related to state and local government.
Also available in the MSU Library. Check
Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Harvard Political Review Online
http://www.hpronline.org/
Online journal providing leading thought on today's most pressing political questions. Also includes reviews of newly-released books and personal interviews with today's leaders.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
IPPSR Policy Brief
http://www.ippsr.msu.edu/PPIE/PolicyBrief.htm
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Journal of Conflict Resolution (Table of Contents Service)
http://www.yale.edu/unsy/jcrhome1.htm
An interdisciplinary journal of social scientific theory and research on human conflict. It focuses especially on international conflict, but its pages are open to a variety of contributions about intergroup conflict, within as well between nations, that may help in understanding problems of war and peace. Reports about innovative applications, as well as about basic research, are welcomed, especially when the results are of interest to scholars in several disciplines. Web site also provides tables of contents from June 1997 on.
Available in the MSU Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (Full Text)
http://www.jha.ac/
An online journal published by the University of Cambridge. Provides a collection of academic articles, book reviews, a country specific section, and information about and analysis of humanitarian assistance missions around the world. Also contains an archives.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Law and Politics Book Review (Full Text)
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/
An Electronic Periodical Published by The Law and Courts Section of The American Political Science Association. Reviews are written by members of the section and usually appear within six months of publication.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Legislative Studies Quarterly
http://www.uiowa.edu/~lsq/
The Legislative Studies Quarterly is an international journal devoted to the publication of research on representative assemblies. Its purpose is to disseminate scholarly work on parliaments and legislatures, their relations to other political institutions, their functions in the political system, and the activities of their members both within the institution and outside. Includes table of contents and abstracts from volume XXI (1996) on.
Available in the MSU Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Long Term View
http://www.mslaw.edu/About_LTV.htm
A public policy journal published by the Massachusetts School of Law. The latest issue is available online. Each issue is devoted to a single topic. Topics have covered:
Michigan Journal of Political Science (Full Text)
http://www.umich.edu/~mjps/
MJPS is a bi-annual publication that is produced entirely by undergraduate students at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. It's purpose is to publish relevant articles on any political science topics which have been submitted by mostly students from across the country. Also contains links to web-pages devoted to political science topics. Issues 19-26 (Fall 1995 to Winter 1998 available full text.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal (Full Text)
http://meria.idc.ac.il/
Provides current and back issues of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal plus additional features such as a current contents service listing periodical articles related to the Middle East; a set of web links specifically designed to be useful for researchers on contemporary Middle East issues; a catalog of MERIA publications; FAQs; a U.S. Middle East Policy Database consisting of a 20-year compilation of annual reports on the U.S. and the region.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Mother Jones Interactive
http://www.mojones.com/
The MoJo Wire and Mother Jones are projects of the Foundation for National Progress, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, founded in 1975 to educate and empower people to work toward progressive change. Read highlights from the latest issue. Provides table of contents plus excerpts from back issues of Mother Jones.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Moving Ideas (Selected Articles Only)
http://www.movingideas.org/
Welcome to the Moving Ideas Network (MIN), formerly the Electronic Policy Network! MIN is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Our goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.
Moving Ideas posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions, as well as promotes high-quality websites and publishes original content. We hope to strengthen democratic participation by providing a more inclusive and intelligible debate about the issues that shape our world.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Multinational Monitor (Full Text)
http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html
The Multinational Monitor is published monthly except bimonthly in January/February and July/August by Essential Information, Inc. The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. Current and back issues available. The latest edition, as of October 2001, is the October 2001 issue.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
The Nation Digital Edition (Selections Only)
http://www.thenation.com/
Contains selections from the latest edition and an archives section.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
National Review Online (Selections Only)
http://www.nationalreview.com/
America's Conservative Magazine. Provides selections from the current issue as well as an archives section.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
New American
http://www.thenewamerican.com/
The online magazine of the John Birch Society. Provides a table of contents service for each issue, plus order information. Selected articles are available online. Also provides a subject index to the John Birch Society Library.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
New Republic Online
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Perspectives on Politics
http://www.apsanet.org/section_328.cfm
Perspectives on Politics provides political insight on important problems through rigorous, broad-based research and integrative thought. The journal enables members of different subfields to speak with one another--and with knowledgeable people outside the discipline--about issues of common interest; it aspires to be provocative, even edgy, while maintaining the highest academic standards. APSA members and subscribers have full access; others can access the table of contents and a few selected articles from the latest issue.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Policy Review (Selected articles from current issue and archives)
http://www.policyreview.org/
The Journal of American Citizenship, the flagship magazine of the Heritage Foundation. It specializes in the study of private-sector and local-government alternatives to the bureaucratic, centralized welfare state. We are dedicated to rebuilding the institutions of American citizenship -- families, neighborhoods, religious institutions, public and private schools, voluntary civic institutions, businesses, and local governments. Policy Review also profiles great American citizens: Houston constable Victor Trevino is reducing crime with his "zebra squad" of volunteer cops; Sister Connie Driscoll is helping young urban mothers in Chicago; Rev. Frank Reid, of Baltimore's AME Church, is promoting black Christian manhood to the members of his community. We also study "what works": DeVry Institute of Technology sets the standard for career training; Rhode Island's privatized school lunch program tastes better and costs less; private security officers reduce crime around New York's Grand Central Station. We tackle tough subjects, and propose common-sense policy prescriptions, for issues such as crime, taxes, environment, education, religion and culture, adoption and foster care, and Social Security. We publish articles by influential people on the major issues of the day. Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, Bill Bennett, Ralph Reed, Bill Kristol, Kate O'Beirne, Grover Norquist, and other key policy makers all contribute to Policy Review. In short, Policy Review provides practical, constructive thought -- the best of conservatism-in-action.
Also available in the MSU Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Political Science Quarterly (Selected Articles and Index)
http://www.psqonline.org/
Published continuously since 1886, Political Science Quarterly or PSQ is the most widely read and accessible scholarly journal covering government, politics and policy. A nonpartisan journal, PSQ is edited for both political scientists and general readers with a keen interest in public and foreign affairs. Each article is based on objective evidence and is fully refereed. Every issue of PSQ also features up to 35 incisive book reviews by noted scholars. The book reviews keep readers up-to-date on all the important new books about the most crucial foreign and domestic issues and the people who are affecting them.
(Last checked 03/27/03)
The Progressive Populist
http://www.populist.com/
"Welcome to the online edition of the Progressive Populist, a newspaper that believes people are more important than corporations. The Progressive Populist reports from the heartland of America on issues of interest to workers, small business owners, and family farmers and ranchers. This World Wide Web site not only features selections from the newsprint edition of the Progressive Populist, to which we hope you will subscribe. It also gives you another crack at selected articles from back issues as well as texts of populist speeches and essays on populism that we could not otherwise fit into our printed edition."
(Last checked 09/30/09)
The Progressive Review On-line Report
http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/index.htm
Free Range Journalism From Washington's Most Unofficial Source.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
PS Online (Table of Contents from the last couple of issues plus more)
http://www.apsanet.org/PS/
Since 1969 PS: Political Science & Politics has served as the journal of record for the profession, incorporating scholarly essays with news and features of professional interest. Adapting the journal to new technologies, the APSA is pleased to introduce PSonline, a new home for elements of the print journal. PSonline will host such recurring features as the listings for upcoming conferences and related organizations. Additionlly, a growing number of articles and special features will be included. PSonline will be updated frequently and we encourage you to visit often as we expand this new site.
Also available in the MSU Libraries. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Reason Online (Selected Articles)
http://www.reasonmag.com/
REASON, a monthly magazine of "free minds and free markets," examines politics, culture, and ideas from a dynamic libertarian perspective. The online version offers you access to selected articles in the hope you will subscribe.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Red Tape (Full Text)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/red_tape/index.htm
Red Tape is the official newsletter of the Government Documents Round Table of Michigan (GODORT). Each issue contains information about the organization (its meetings, awards, and officers); information about local documents librarians and depositories; information about state, national, and world developments of particular interest to documents librarians; and a
collection of live links to web sites of potential interest.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Regulation: The Cato Review of Business and Government (Full Text)
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regultn-arch.html
Published by the Cato Institute, this magazine gives the conservative point of view on business and government regulation. Vol. 14, no. 1, 1991 on.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Review of Politics (Table of Contents and Abstracts)
http://www.nd.edu/~rop/
Founded in 1939, this journal sponsored by the University of Notre Dame emphacizes the philosophical and historical approach to politics. Among those whom it published and encouraged are Hannah Arendt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jacques Maritain, Talcott Parsons, Clinton Rossiter, Edward Shils, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Contains a table of contents with abstracts for recent and forthcoming articles (since 1995); an index of articles since 1992; and an index of book reviews since 1992.
Also available in the MSU Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Ripon Forum
http://www.riponsoc.org/forum-apr-may-06.htm
The latest issue of this magazine sponsored by the Republican Party is available online.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Slate (Full Text)
http://www.slate.com/
Provides articles about current events and public policy issues. Be sure to check out the following sections:
(Last checked 09/30/09)
State Magazine (Full Text)
Pre-Bush:
http://www.state.gov/www/publications/statemag/index.html
Post-Bush:
http://www.state.gov/m/dghr/statemag/
Published by the U.S. Department of State to facilitate communication between management and employees at home and abroad and to acquaint employees with developments that may affect operations or personnel. Includes issues back to August 1996.
Also available in the MSU Government Documents Library. Check Magic for more information.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Stateline Midwest
http://www.csgmidwest.org/MemberServices/Publications/Stateline.htm,br>
Council of State Governments.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
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Penn Library Electronic Journals and Newspapers
http://www.library.upenn.edu/
Arranged alphabetically and by subject area. Also covers journals and newspapers available via JSTOR and Project Muse.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
FreeFullText.com
http://www.freefulltext.com/
Want more? "Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals (on all topics) which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration)." Alphabetical index only, so this is useful primarily for people who already have a citation to a journal article and want it free and immediately.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
Want more? Then take a tour of this web site, a compilation of web links by the University of Houston Libraries.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science
http://www.in-cites.com/research/2003/june_16_2003-2.html
Compares the citation impact of political science journals as measured over three different time spans : 2001, 1981-2002, and 1998-2002. Source : Sci-Bites. For more recent information consult Journal Citation Reports.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science
http://in-cites.com/research/2006/february_27_2006-1.html
Compares the citation impact of political science journals as measured over three different time spans : 2004, 2000-2004, and 1981-2004. Source : Sci-Bites. For more recent information consult Journal Citation Reports.
(Last checked 09/30/09)
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