| Online resources |
|
| Articles on Consensus v. majoritarian
constitutions |
| Rod Alence. 2004. 'Political
institutions and developmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa.'
J. of Modern African Studies. 42(2): 163-187. |
| Attila Agh. 2001. 'Early
consolidation and performance crisis: The majoritarian-consensus
democracy debate in Hungary.' West European Politics
24(3): 89-112 |
| Liam Anderson. 2001.
'The implications of institutional design for macroeconomic
performance.' Comparative Political Studies 34(4) |
| Klaus Armigeon.
2002. 'The
effects of negotiation democracy.' European Journal of
Political Research. 41: 81-105. |
| Donald Horowitz. 'Explaining
the Northern Ireland Agreement: The sources of an unlikely
constitutional settlement.' British Journal of Political
Science 32 |
| Andre Kaiser et al.
2002. 'The
democratic quality of institutional regimes: a conceptual
framework.' Political Studies. 50: 313-331. |
| Hans Keman and Paul
Pennings. 1995.
'Managing political and social conflicts in democracies: Do
consensus and corporatism matter?' British Journal of
Political Science 25(2) |
| Arendt Lijphart.
2004. 'Constitutional
design for divided societies.' Journal of Democracy 15 |
| Manfred G. Schmidt.
2002.
'Political performance and types of democracy: Findings from
comparative studies.' EJPR 41: 147-163. |
| |
| Federalism and decentralization |
| Nancy Bermeo. 2002.
'A
new look at Federalism: The import of institutions.' Journal
of Democracy 13(2): 96-110. |
| Henry Hale. 2004. 'Divided
we stand: Institutional sources of ethnofederal state survival and
collapse.' World Politics 56: 165-93. |
| John Gerring and
Strom Thacker. 2004.
'Political institutions and corruption: The role of unitarism and
parliamentarism.' BJPolS. 34: 295-330. |
| Aaron Schneider.
2003.
'Decentralization: Conceptualization and Measurenment.'
Studies in Comparative International Development 38(3): 32-56. |
| Jonathan Rodden.
2004. 'Comparative
federalism and decentralization: On meaning and measurement.'
Comparative Politics 481-500. |
| |
| Electoral Systems |
| Donald Horowitz.
2003. 'Electoral
systems: A primer for decision-makers.' Journal of Democracy.
14(4) |
| IDEA 2005.
Handbook of Electoral System Design |
| Shaheen Mozaffar,
James R. Scarritt and Glen Galaich. 2003.
'Electoral institutions, ethnopolitical cleavages and party systems
in Africa's emerging democracies.' APSR 97(3):379-390. |
| |
| Executives: Presidentialism v.
parliamentarism |
| Jose Cheibub. 'Systems
of Government: Presidentialism or Parliamentarism: Which one is
best?' |
| Paul Pennings. 2003.
'Beyond
dichotomous explanations: Explaining constitutional control of the
executive with fuzzy sets.' EJPR 42. |
| |
| Ethnicity, ethnic representation,
and ethnic conflict |
| Alberto Alesina et
al. 2003.
'Fractionalization.' Journal of Economic Growth 8: 155-194. |
| Susan Banducci et
al. 2004.
'Minority representation, empowerment and participation.' The
Journal of Politics 66(2): 534-556. |
| Monty Marshall and
Tedd Gurr. 2003. 'Peace
and conflict 2003.' CIDCM |
| Frank Cohen. 1997. 'Proportional
versus majoritarian ethnic conflict management in democracies.'
Comparative Political Studies 30(5) |
| William Easterly and
Ross Levine. 1997. 'Africa's
Growth Tragedy: Policies and ethnic divisions.' Quarterly
Journal of Economics. 112(4) |
| William Easterly.
2001. 'Can
institutions resolve ethnic conflict?' Economic Development
and Cultural Change. 41(4) |
| M. Steven Fish and
Robin S. Brooks. 2004. 'Does
diversity hurt democracy?' Journal of Democracy 15(1):
154-166. |
| Jonathan Fox. 2001.
'Two
civilizations and ethnic conflict: Islam and the West.'
Journal of Peace Research 38(4) |
|
Jonathan Fox. 2003.
'State failure and the Clash of Civilizations: An examination of the
magnitude and extent of domestic civilizational conflict from 1950
to 1996.' Australian Journal of Political Science 38(2):
195-213 |
| Bruce Gilley. 2004.
'Against
the concept of ethnic conflict.' Third World Quarterly
25(6): 1155-1166. |
| Daniel N. Posner.
2004.
'Measuring ethnic fractionalization in Africa.' AJPS
4894): 849-863. |
| |
| Women's representation |
| Karen Bird. 2003.
'The political representation of women and ethnic minorities.'
AMID paper |
| Ester Duflo. 2004. 'Why
political reservations?' |
| Mona Lena Krook.
2003. 'Not
all quotas are created equal.' ECPR paper |
|
UNDP. 2000.
Women's political participation and good governance. |
| |
| Civic society |
| Jan Dehley and
Kenneth Newton. 2003.
'Who
trusts? The origins of social trust in seven societies.'
European Societies. 5(2) |
| Global Civil Society
Yearbook 2003
Data appendices |
| |
| General Resources |
-
Hollis Catalogue
- Access to further library research
resources.
|
-
Statistical Resources on the
Web/Political Science
- University of Michigan list of
links in political science.
|
|
Social Science Citation Index
Perhaps THE most useful electronic database to identify
relevant literature for your research projects. Needs sign-in. |
|
SPSS
The
website for more details about the statistical package and
the
down-loadable demo program |
|
University Information Systems
SPSS
Grad Pack available to order from the Technology
Products Center Catalogue. See also SPSS Grad Pack. |
| Data Resources |
-
Global Barometer Surveys
- Links to the global barometer
surveys in Africa, East Asia, New Europe and Latinobaometro.
|
-
Harvard-MIT Data Center
- THE main archive for locating and
downloading machine-readable datasets at Harvard. Needs sign-in.
|
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ICPSR Web Site
- Access to an extensive archive of
machine-readable datasets hosted at the University of Michigan.
|
-
PollingReport.com - Public Opinion
Online
- Mainly US public opinion
|
-
Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research
- Excellent searchable archive of
public opinion survey questions and results, but mainly confined
to United States and Latin America
|
| International resources |
-
ACE Project
- The Administration and Cost of
Elections project
|
-
CIA World Factbook 2001
- Good reference guide to the basics
about specific countries
|
-
Elections around the World
- Excellent resource for election
results and parties in all nations worldwide.
|
-
Europa
- The European Union website
including access to the Eurobarometer public opinion surveys in
Western, Central and Easterm Europe.
|
-
Freedom in the World: Freedom House
- Annual evaluations of the state of
democracy around the world. See also for the annual report on
press freedom.
|
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Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights watchdog Group
|
-
International Foundation for Electoral
Systems
- Excellent resource for elections
including the electoral systems and recent results.
|
-
International IDEA
- International IDEA hosts
information about electoral systems, women and politics, voter
turnout and deeprooted ethnic conflict, among other topics.
|
-
OECD
- Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development. See their annual report and
statistical resources for the most affluent states worldwide.
|
-
Transparency International
- The organization that tracks
corruption worldwide with an annual report
|
-
United National Development Program
- See especially for the UNDP World
Development Report 2002
|
-
United Nations
- The U.N. site provides basic
information on the United Nations and its programs and links to
some full text documents. It is also a good source for identifying
useful print U.N. documents.
|
-
World Bank
- The World Development Report 2003
and links to multiple reports and socioeconomic indicators
- For
access to the latest online CDRom database at the Kennedy
School library read instructions here
|
| News Media |
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BBC News
- This site carries streaming radio
and video news programs in Realaudio format as well as constantly
updated internationalnews and an extensive searchable index.
|
-
New York Times
- NYT
|
| Journal Resources |
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JSTOR
- Access to full text articles in
many political science journals
|
-
Proceedings Online
- All the conference papers from the
2002 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
with searchable index to the latest research.
|
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F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
