POL 250 – Governments & Politics Around the World

POL 250 – Governments & Politics Around the World

General

Guides

• Legal Research Guide (International)
• Government Documents (International)

Databases

• NexisUni – A leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
• HeinOnline – HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 158 million pages and 200,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. 

Web

• CIA World Factbook – The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
• Library of Congress Country Studies – Electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division

Constitutional Reform & Negotiation

Web

• World Constitutions Illustrated
• Constitute – The world’s constitutions. 
• Ten Principles of Operational Diplomacy: A Framework by Paul Kreutzer
• Lessons for Business Negotiators: Negotiation Techniques from International Diplomacy
• Mediation Process Matrix
• Diplomatic Keys to Successful Negotiation
•  ACE Electoral Knowledge Network Project
• Comparative Constitutions Project
• Constitutional Transitions
• Constitution Net
• Constitution Building – International Institute for Democracy & Electoral Assistance
• FairVote – Electoral Systems
• Democracy Reporting International – Constitutions 

Books

• Social and political foundations of Constitutions
• Making constitutions : presidents, parties, and institutional choice in Latin America
• Consequential courts : judicial roles in global perspective
• Constitutional courts as mediators : armed conflict, civil-military relations, and the rule of law in Latin America
• Redrafting constitutions in democratic regimes : theoretical and comparative perspectives

Brazil (1984-1985)

Background 

• Skidmore, Thomas. 1990. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 
• Moreira Alves, Maria Helena. 1985. State and Opposition in Military Brazil. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press.

Presidents:

• Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1964-1967)
• Artur da Costa e Sila (1967-69)
• Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1969-74)
• Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979)
• João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (1979-1985)

Other Important Figures

• Golbery do Couto e Silva

Military

• The Brazilian Military: Changing Strategic Perceptions and the Question of Mission
• Democracy from Above: The Political Origins of Military Dictatorship in Brazil

Democratic Social Party (formerly ARENA)

• ARENA from Britannica
• The Military & Political in Authoritarian Brazil: The Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA) 1965-1979
• The Political Right in Post Authoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization 

National Confederation of Industry 

• About CNI

Media

• Reis EP, Lima Neto F. Brazil: The Road to Democracy. International Political Science Review. 2009;30(5):535-542. doi:10.1177/0192512109352453
• European Media Coverage of Brazil’s New Human Rights: 1964-1985
• A Decolonial Approach to the Discipline of Journalism Theory in Brazil

Unified Workers’ Central & ABC Metalworkers’ Union 

Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul and the Workers’ Party 

• Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva
  • From The Guardian
  • From The New York Times

• The Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) governments and the policy for the civil servant workforce of the Brazilian government

• The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo
• They Don’t Wear Black Tie: Intellectuals and Workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1958-1981

National Union of Students 

• Clara Maria de Oliveira Araújo
• The Rise of Student Movements
• The University Student Tradition in Brazil

National Conference of Brazilian Bishops & Ecclesiastic Base Communities 

• Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, The Archbishop of São Paulo
• Dom Hélder Câmara, archbishop of Recife and Olinda
  • From Brown University
  • From US Catholic

Liberation Theology 

• Liberation Theology & the Liberal Society by Michael Novak
• The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument & Manifesto by Ivan Petrella
• Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation by Johnny Bernard Hill
• Liberation Theologies: The Global Pursuit of Justice by Alfred Hennelly

For more, search the Library Catalog

Professional Organizations 

Order of Attorneys of Brazil

• From Thomas Reuters
• Lawyers’ Associations and the Brazilian State, 1843-1997

Brazilian Press Association

• From Reporters without Borders
• Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability & Democracy
• Another “Fourth Branch” Press and Political Culture in Brazil
• The Media in Transitional Democracies 

South Africa (1990-1994)

General

• South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order
• The Resolution of African Conflicts: The Management of Conflict Resolution & Post-Conflict Reconstruction
• Constitutional Scapegoat: The Dialectic Between Happiness and Apartheid in South Africa
• Customary Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constitutional Confrontations in Culture, Gender and ‘Living Law’

National Party leader (Afrikaner Nationalist Party)

•  The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power
• Afrikaner Nationalism, Electioneering and the Politics of a Volkstaat

African National Congress 

• African National Congress Britannica 
• African National Congress Website
• The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power
• The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Leadership & the Role of the African National Congress

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)/Azanian People’s Liberation Army 

• Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) from Britannica
• In the Twilight of the Revolution: The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, 1959-1994
• ‘Arming Black Consciousness’: The Formation of the Bokwe Group/Azanian People’s Liberation Front
• From the Fringes to Fossils: The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and the Negotiated Transition to Democracy in South Africa

South African Defence Force

• From The Conversation
• From Britannica
• The South African Defence Force and Political Reform
• Leashing the Dogs of War:  The South African National Defence Force under the New Constitution
• Soldiers in a Storm: The Armed Forces in South Africa’s Democratic Transition 

South African Students’ Organization (SASO)

• From Britannica
• In The Conversation
• Steve Biko by Lindy Wilson

Congress of South African Trade Unions 

• Congress of South African Trade Unions
• Organizing Unionism & the Possibilities for Perpetuating a Social Movement Role: Representativity, Politics, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions
• Union-Party Alliances in the Era of Market Regulation: The Case of South Africa 

South African Council of Churches 

• South African Council of Churches