POLI 057: Democratic Governance in Contemporary Latin America: Home
Google Doc from Class Session
The Google Doc from our class session, complete with all your great notes on the resources, can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/poli057
Research Design & Support
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What Makes a Good Research Question?Handout from Duke University's Thompson Writing Program Writing Studio. Has good guidelines for and examples of research questions in the social sciences.
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UNC Writing CenterVisit UNC's Writing Center to make appointments, find writing tips, and access handouts useful for writing literature reviews and research papers.
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Writing Standards in Political ScienceHandout from The Writing Center at UNC on writing in Political Science.
Finding Books
Start with a keyword search in the Library Catalog. Once you have located a relevant item, you can look at the Subjects in the record and follow those links to find related books.
You can also refine your results by using the facets on the left side of the screen.
Sample Subjects:
Democratization -- Latin America
Latin America -- Politics and government (very broad! will want to pair with other keywords)
Political participation -- Venezuela Or: Political participation -- [country]
Representative government and representation -- Venezuela Or: Representative government and representation -- [country]
Interlibrary Loan
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