POLS 366: Advanced Research in Global Governance (HC)

Literature reviews are a particularly useful resource when doing research.  They address the issues involved in a specific question and the debates among scholars.  They map out the intellectual terrain succinctly and give you the major landmarks in terms of key authors and significant titles for greater understanding.  

Check below for selected literature reviews devoted in whole or part to your topic.  Search in Annual Reviews for additional entries.

Annual Reviews        

    EPA & Influencers:  Environmental Law and Native American Law  (2010- Annual Review of Law and Social Science); How Party Polarization Affects Governance (2015- Annual Review of Political Science); Climate Change Litigation (2020- Annual Review of Law and Social Science);  The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance (2022- Annual Review of Political Science)

    Food Insecurity:  Roles of Cities in Creating Healthful Food Systems (2022- Annual Review of Nutrition); War, Conflict, and Food Insecurity (Oct. 2022- Annual Review of Resource Economics- Request copy- Abstract); Climate Change and Collective Violence (2017- Annual Review of Nutrition); Food Systems for Human and Planetary Health: Economic Perspectives and Challenges (2021- Annual Review of Resource Economics)

     Foreign Investment & Covid:  Political Risk and International Investment Law (2022- Annual Review of Political Science); The Development of China's Stock Market and Stakes for the Global Economy (2017- Annual Review of Financial Economics- Request copy- Abstract)

     Higher Ed & Covid:  Association, Service, Market: Higher Education in American Political Development (2016- Annual Review of Sociology); SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory (2022- Annual Review of Anthropology)

     Political Discourse & Racism:  The Persistence of Racial Cues and Appeals in American Elections (2021- Annual Review of Political Science); Understanding the Role of Racism in Contemporary US Public Opinion (2020- Annual Review of Political Science); Experiments on Racial Priming in Political Campaigns (2009- Annual Review of Political Science)

     Residential Schools & Accountability: Indigenous Peoples, Criminology, and Criminal Justice (2019- Annual Review of Criminology); Psychology and Indigenous People (2022- Annual Review of Psychology) 

These kinds of reference books provide overviews that address major issues within a field of study.  The authors not only discuss key content but provide a more sophisticated level of analysis and contextualization than you might find in a textbook or introductory study.  The authors are chosen for their research areas and deliver authoritative essays.  The material they choose to include in their bibliographies are good points of departure.

Some generally relevant titles are listed below.  Find more pertinent titles for your topic by doing a search like this in Tripod:

 in  KeywordTitleJournal TitleAuthor/CreatorSubjectCall NumberISBN/ISSNPublisherSeriesYear of PublicationTable of Contents 

in    KeywordTitleJournal TitleAuthor/CreatorSubjectCall NumberISBN/ISSNPublisherSeriesYear of PublicationTable of Contents    Results = 42 records  (Limited to 2005-present date)