New Issue of BEP's "Business and Politics"

Full announcement from BEP with description of journal

Table of Contents:

Real Exchange Rates and Trade Protectionism

Thomas Oatley

Human Rights and Economic Liberalization

Art Carden and Robert A. Lawson

Divested Interests: Globalization and the New Politics of Exchange Rates

Sarah Cleeland Knight

The Effects of Interest Groups’ Ideology on Their PAC and Lobbying Expenditures

Amy McKay

THOMAS database gets updated

For more info see the link (new moble access, links to info from Law Library of Congress, links to State Legislative info) - but don't forget the WSU Libraries also have the Lexis Nexis Congressional database...

THOMAS: The Revamp during the Recess « In Custodia Legis

Some Newish Social Sciences Journals Added to the WSU Libraries

Brought to us via corsortial deals and packages; find them via Griffin or WSU WorldCat:

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (Oxford; WSU All)
East Central Europe. L'Europe Du Centre-Est (Brill; WSU All)
Environment and Urbanization Asia (Sage; WSU All)
Law and History Review (Cambridge; WSU All)
Political Insight (Wiley; WSU All)
Social Change (Sage; WSU All)
Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (Brill; WSU All)
State and Local Government Review (Sage; WSU All)

Blog U.: Are the Social Sciences Becoming Global? - The World View - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: Are the Social Sciences Becoming Global? - The World View - Inside Higher Ed

An interesting article about social sciences reserarch and publication in countries other than the United States or Europe. A good reminder to expand the geographic boundaries of your literature searching - institutional and disciplinary repositories might be a good source...and that's the subject of an upcoming blog post here.

New on CIAO - Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development

Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development (in CIAO database)

Abstract
This essay reviews some of the most important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies to respond these trends and implications. The interactions of population, economics, the environment, and culture are central. In the past decade, for the first time in history, old people outnumbered young people, urban people outnumbered rural people, and women of reduced fertility outnumbered women of high fertility. The century from 1950 to 2050 will have included the highest global population growth rate ever, the largest voluntary fall in the global population growth rate ever, and the most enormous shift ever in the demographic balance between the more developed regions of the world and the less developed ones. ..."

US State Dept releases 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism

Just released: The U.S. State Department has published the 2009 volume of Country Reports on Terrorism

"U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism."