LibGuides: POL 171 Power, Order and Justice: Background Material

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Sourcebooks

Encyclopedia of American political history : studies of the principal movements and ideas by Jack P. Greene
Call Number: REF E183 .E5
Publication Date: 1984
Encyclopedia of modern political thought by Gregory Claeys and Royal Holloway
Call Number: REF JA61 .E48 2013
Publication Date: 2013
This reference book explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This online encyclopedia provides detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia's articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by other scholars who are not working in the field covered by that article. Taken from the web site.

The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of political thought by Roger Scruton
Call Number: REF JA61 .S37 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Taken from Amazon. This dictionary has some 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought, defining concepts and ideologies, surveying the arguments on issues, giving capsule histories of political institutions, and summarizing (with newly expanded treatment) the thought of major political theorists. The dictionary provides a readable and impartial survey of political thought, of immense value to students of political science, government, philosophy and jurisprudence as well as to the general reader with an interest in ideas.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. This is a dynamic reference work and each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.