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POLS 2 - Sweeney

A research guide for comparative government

Selected background sources for countries

The World Factbook
The World Factbook, produced by the CIA, provides facts and background information on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.
Coverage includes history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

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Provides geographical, political, economic, corporate and environmental information for every country in the world.

The Statesman's yearbook 2022 : the politics, cultures and economies of the world. by Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan (Editor)
Call Number: JA51 .S7
ISBN: 9781349960453
Publication Date: 2022
World political yearbook
Call Number: D31 .W67 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Includes country profiles.

Library of Congress Country Studies
Book-length studies of 82 different countries published by the Library of Congress. Some are in the library the rest are available in PDF.

Doing Comparative Politics by Timothy C. Lim
ISBN: 9781588267443
Publication Date: 2010

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