Elections Research: Specific Population Analysis

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Research Resources

SPECIFIC POPULATIONS ANALYSIS

  • AgeLine -- provides access to aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. Sources include scholarly journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos from 1966-present. Key source for studying voting behavior and age-related policy issues.
  • ATLA Religion Database – index to scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Journals representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups are included. Good resource for investigating the voting behavior and issues of specific religious groups.
  • Chicano Database -- bibliographic index focuses on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants since 1992. Covers Chicano/a art, education, folklore, health. history, labor, language and literature, music, politics, public policy, religion, sociology, and women's studies.
  • Child Development and Adolescent Studies -- provides citations to current and historical social and behavioral sciences literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21, including book reviews, abstracts from hundreds of journals, technical reports, books, book chapters, and theses and dissertations. Good place for research on issues related to attitudes and voting behavior among youth aged 18-21 years old.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch -- includes coverage of scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, as well as important grass-roots publications from ethnic and minority presses predominately in the United States from 1959 to the present. This is very important database for gaining a perspective and understanding about issues, such as voting behavior, related to underrepresented and indigenous communities.
  • Family Studies Abstracts -- this database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This is a resource that can be help identify research on the relationships between elections, campaigns, voting behavior and their influence on family dynamics.
  • GenderWatch -- a full-text database that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports. Helpful for understanding women in politics.
  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)  – provides bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx communities in the United States since the late 1960s. Good source for both historical and contemporary research resources.
  • LGBTQ+ Life -- the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues with coverage that includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. A resource to identify political research studies about LGBT+ communities.
  • Urban Studies Abstracts -- provides access to critical developments on all aspects of urban studies. Topics covered include trends in urbanization, urban history, housing and real estate, land use, transportation, urban fiscal and budgetary policy, and general theory and research. A resource for identifying research on urban elections and voting behavior.

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