Useful Sources of Current Information

Citizens and Their Government Council for Excellence in Government

Definitions Dictionary of Political Science JA 61 D8; Black's Law Dictionary KF 156 B 53.

Concepts International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences H 40 A2 I5.

Facts The United States Government Manual doc AE Z 108/2; Congressional Directory doc Y 4 P; Book of the States; Municipal Yearbook; Statistical Abstract of the United States doc C3.124; World Almanac and Book of Facts AY 67 N5 W7; Census of Housing and Population doc C3.223; Governor's Budget Cal doc G275 B8; Budget of the Unites States Government--FY 1997 doc PrEx2.8; The Gallup Poll Monthly; Congressional Record doc Xa.

Newspapers and Newsmagazines Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, The Economist, National Journal, Washington Monthly .

Opinion Periodicals Dissent, Z Magazine, Village Voice, Progressive, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, Nation, Social Policy, Heterodoxy, Crisis, New York Review of Books, Sojourner, Christian Century, America, American Prospect, New Yorker, Commentary, New Republic, Harper's, Atlantic, Vital Speeches, Congressional Digest, Current, Editorial Research Reports, Commonweal,Weekly Standard, National Review, American Spectator.

Think Tank Publications Brookings Review, American Enterprise, Liberty, Policy Review.

Interest Group Publications Common Cause, In These Times.

Radio and Television Pacifica News, BBC World News, Monitor Radio, NPR "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "Weekend Edition," "Washington Post Foreign Service," PBS "NewsHour" and "Washington Week in Review," DeutcheWelle "English News Journal," C-SPAN U.S. House of Representatives, "Booknotes," C-SPAN II U.S. Senate, CNN, ABC-TV "This Week," CBS-TV "Face the Nation," NBC-TV "Meet the Press."

Popularized Scholarly Journals Transaction--Social Science and Modern Society, Public Interest, Wilson Quarterly.

Scholarly Periodicals American Political Science Review, PS, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Journal of Politics; American Journal of Political Science; Political Research Quarterly; American Politics Quarterly; Social Science Quarterly; Polity, Political Behavior; Legislative Studies Quarterly; Public Opinion Quarterly; Congress & the Presidency; Political Analysis; Policy Analysis; Electoral Studies; Political Psychology; National Civic Review; Journal of Law and Politics; Law and Contemporary Problems, Law and Society Review, Judicature, Economic Inquiry; British Journal of Political Science.

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