POLS 347: Honors Seminar on Democratization: Home

This guide is designed to orient you to relevant resources recommended to help you locate information and data on democratization.

Contents will include the following types of resources to help you locate relevant research for your comparative paper:

• Databases for scholarly journal articles
• Web sources & databases for data, statistics, and public opinion
• Books for background information
• Databases for news articles

Scholarly Journal Articles: About

Scholarly journal articles will provide detailed analysis for your comparative paper and provide a unique perspective on a very focused conversation.

For More Resources

For a more detailed list of databases to help you locate scholarly journal articles for your comparative research paper, please visit the Political Science Research Guide. 

For other recommended databases, please visit the Political Science Research Guide. 

The following journal titles will contain scholarly journal articles on democratization, many of which are recommended by Dr. Ziegler in your syllabus. 

• American Journal of Political Science
• American Political Science Review
• British Journal of Political Science
• Democratization
  • ​UofL does not have a subscription to Democratization. If you see a relevant article from this journal come up while searching, request it through Interlibrary Loan. The article will normally arrive in 3-5 business days in your ILL account (so, a PDF that you can access from your own computer!).
• Demokratizatsiya (focuses on post-Soviet democratization)
• Comparative Political Studies
• Comparative Politics
• Communist and Post-Communist Studies
• Journal of Democracy
• World Politics