This guide is designed to help you get started with your Political Science research.
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Help with course assignments
These guides provide help with specific course topics and assignments:
- POL 100: Introduction to Politics and Government
- POL 101W (Surrey) Term Paper Research
- POL 150: Science, Policy & Innovation (PowerPoint, Summer 2018)
- POL 151: The Administration of Justice
- POL 221: Introduction to Canadian Government
- POL 253: Introduction to Public Policy Process
- POL 313: Political Ideologies
- POL 343: Global Political Economy
- POL 446: International Relations in East Asia
- POL 457/855: Technology and Innovation Policy
- POL 490: Honours Seminar
New Political Science books
- Silenced victims of wartime sexual violence
- Authority and the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion
- Security frameworks in contemporary electronic government
- Biocitizenship : the politics of bodies, governance, and power
- Parties and elections in America : the electoral process
- A new foreign policy : beyond American exceptionalism
- Civil rights and liberties in the 21st century
- The future of human rights
- The Cambridge handbook of the just war
- The alternatives to war : from sanctions to nonviolence
- Open Left : the future of progressive politics
- Reactionary republicanism : how the Tea Party in the House paved the way for Trump's victory
- From politics to the pews : how partisanship and the political environment shape religious identity
- Identities on trial : asylum seekers from Asia
- Beyond the people : social imaginary and constituent imagination
- Critical thinking : your guide to effective argument, successful analysis & independent study
- The Russia file : Russia and the West in an unordered world
- Equal protection : documents decoded
- The monarchy of fear : a philosopher looks at our political crisis
- The cities on the hill : how urban insitutions transform national politics
- Can it happen here? : authoritarianism in America
- Trust and mistrust in contemporary Japanese politics
- Fascism old and new : American politics at the crossroads
- The virtue of nationalism
- Safeguarding the future : governing in an uncertain world
- Opposition parties in European legislatures : conflict or consensus?
- Weapon of peace : how religious liberty combats terrorism
- Gerrymandering : a guide to congressional redistricting, dark money, and the US Supreme Court
- Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl
- Midterm campaigning and the modern presidency : reshaping the president's relationship with Congress