Political Science and International Relations: Getting Started
A selected list of resources
About this guide
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Political Science @ Iowa
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Iowa Research On-line - Political SciencePublished research, dissertations, and other scholarly material
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R for Political Science Research
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This text teaches basic R skills to political science students with no programming background. Intended specifically for the students who need to learn R for a class and who have no interest in R or may even be afraid of or hostile to it, this text builds an awareness of basics, confidence, and a skill set necessary to transition into more advanced texts. To that end, in addition to standard topics, this book includes three chapters specific to the new or reluctant learner. The Introduction explicitly sets expectations for how to use the book and discusses fixed and growth mentalities, and why a growth mentality is crucial for learning R. Chapter 1 includes some basic information on programming, R, and their place in political science research. Chapter 2 explicitly discusses errors, warnings, and methods of debugging. Further chapters build on this by including new errors or warnings that students may encounter as they progress. In service of the aim to give students a solid foundation in R and awareness of what it is and can do, this book teaches and uses both tidyverse and base R frameworks throughout. After completing the book, students should be prepared to learn more advanced materials.
ISBN: 9783031758522Publication Date: 2025 -
The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders
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"This book examines the implications of the movement of people across national borders both for the state and for international politics."
ISBN: 9789819604227Publication Date: 2025 -
Politics in the American States
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Politics in the American States, Twelfth Edition, brings together the high-caliber research expected from this trusted text, with comprehensive and comparative analysis of the fifty states. Fully updated for all major developments in the study of state-level politics, the editors and chapter contributors keep pace with the transformation of American states and their study.
ISBN: 9781544391090Publication Date: 2024
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iPoll databank This link opens in a new window Users that have an email address with the extension @uiowa.edu can self-register by visiting: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/login although registration is no longer necessary to search or download when connected to the campus network. Once users enter their email address, they should receive an activation email with a link to complete registration IPoll is a comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. A full-text retrieval system, the iPoll online database is organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more.
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Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window Cross-searchable library containing SELECTIVE full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, and Religion.
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Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowComprehensive and current grey literature database comprising tens of millions of reports, blogs, papers, and podcasts from tens of thousands of think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, research agencies, cities, and governments.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window SAGE Research Methods is a tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
Background Information
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Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people.
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International Encyclopedia of Political Science"This innovative text explores international relations with the tools of political theory. In so doing, it contributes to and advances the idea of international political theory"
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Oxford Handbooks : Political Science This link opens in a new windowThe Libraries has purchased many of the Oxford Handbook titles. Please contact the subject librarian if you would like access to something that is not currently available.
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Political Handbook of the World"The Political Handbook of the World provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with ... in-depth coverage of current political controversies"
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International Encyclopedia of Civil Society
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ISBN: 3319996754Publication Date: 2020"civil society and the people and organizations involved in it have been affected over the past decade by numerous political, economic, and social changes and events that have left their mark in new relationships, new approaches, and new actors. " -
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs
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ISBN: 9783030445560Publication Date: 2022 -
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
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ISBN: 9783319743189Publication Date: 2023-02-02This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.
Citation Tools
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APSA Style Manual"The APSA Style Manual is the premier style manual for the political science discipline."
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Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new windowA style manual for writing, editing, and publishing.
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EndNoteAvailable at no cost for graduate students, faculty and staff. EndNote Basic is free for undergraduate students.
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Success @ IowaTopics include Copyright and Plagiarism
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Zotero Citation Style ManagerZotero is a free, easy to use, citation management tool. It can help you collect citations, manage them in a library, and add them to your research paper in Word or Google Docs
