POL 250 - Governments & Politics Around the World

General

Guides
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 FactbookThe 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

Brazil (1984-1985)

Background 

Presidents:
Other Important Figures

Military

Democratic Social Party (formerly ARENA)

National Confederation of Industry 

Media

Unified Workers’ Central & ABC Metalworkers’ Union 

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

National Union of Students 

National Conference of Brazilian Bishops & Ecclesiastic Base Communities 

Liberation Theology 

For more, search the Library Catalog

Professional Organizations 

Order of Attorneys of Brazil
Brazilian Press Association

South Africa (1990-1994)

General

National Party leader (Afrikaner Nationalist Party)

African National Congress 

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

South African Defence Force

South African Students’ Organization (SASO)

Congress of South African Trade Unions 

South African Council of Churches