Politics and Elections is an area of Political Science devoted to the study of how people seek public office and how the public chooses among the candidates for public office. This area typically encompasses:
Political Parties | Political Communication (including the Media, Blogs, etc) |
Political Behavior | Elections |
Political Qualifications | Voting Systems |
Political Campaigning | Political Participation |
Game Theory |
For journal articles related to the issues above consult:
For Journal Articles:
Consult any of the following databases for information on Media and Voting Behavior
Note: When searching for this topic think of all related terms, place OR between them and surround them with brackets. Then combine them with records from a second record set such as:
(Media OR Television OR Radio OR Newspapers OR Blogs)
AND
(Vot* OR Elections)
If your topic deals with how different groups (Women, First Nations, etc) participate and effect political decisions, you may also wish to consult databases that cite literature related to them. They are listed below.
After searching a Database, you may need to learn if an article cited is in a journal held by the library.
To learn if the library owns the journal, search our Journal Titles List.
If a journal is not in our collection, you can still get the article via Inter-Library Loans.
If you are a student or faculty member at Brandon University, you can access databases from off campus.
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