Political Science 6510: Comparative Government  Tags: comparative_government political_organization  

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University Libraries has a large collection of Political Science resources which include books, journals, indexes, reference books and tools. We are a member of the OhioLINK consortium so our university community also has access to all the books owned by Ohio libraries as well as those held by BGSU. Students can borrow books from other OhioLINK libraries directly from our online catalog and they will arrive for pickup within 2-3 days.

The library subscribes to a vast array of scholarly journals in both print and electronic formats. We also have access to journals through OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, as well as many of our Resource Databases. Sometimes it's confusing trying to find a journal article you want in full text because they are available in such a variety of resources.

Dr. Jesse has compiled an extensive reading list for the class. It includes books and journal articles. Some books are available as e-books, some are only available through OhioLINK, some you will have to request from the Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository. Most, however, are available in the book stacks of the BGSU library. Books that are available in the stacks have a call number. Example: [Available in Jerome Library: JF51 .R35 2006]

The articles include a link that should take you directly to an electronic version of the article listed. If you discover any broken links, please let me know and I'll fix it.

Political Science 651 Syllabus
This is a pdf version of Dr. Jesse's Syllabus. which includes location information for the books and urls for the articles.

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