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OER for Political Science

Explore free resources on American politics, global studies, political theory, and more. Access primary sources and relevant books for political science studies. Discover insightful materials for international relations and California politics.

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OER for Political Science

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  1. OER for Political Science Charlotte Lee – Berkeley City College Lezlee Ware –Cañada College

  2. Lezlee’s Journey to Open Educational Resources • Publisher Pricing • Primary Sources

  3. American Politics • US Constitution (National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs) • Magna Carta (National Archives: https://www.archivesfoundation.org/documents/magna-carta/) • The Federalist Papers (Feedbooks as a PDF) • Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Googlebooks: https://books.google.com/books?id=ox91llFB5j4C&lpg=PP1&dq=Voices+of+a+People%E2%80%99s+History+of+the+United+States+chapters&pg=PP1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false) • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Virginia.edu: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/) • Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (Virginia.edu: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WASHINGTON/toc.html) • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408)

  4. California Politics and Local Government All available in a free book published by the State of California, which can be picked up at your local representative’s office. Find your California Representative: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/) • California Constitution • US Constitution • Treaty of Guadalupe • Magna Carta _______________________ • Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Googlebooks)

  5. Charlotte’s Journey to Open Educational Resources • Cost considerations and unsatisfactory textbook content • Outreach by OER community on my campus

  6. International Relations • International Relations Theory by S. McGlinchey & et al. (E-International Relations Publishing: https://www.e-ir.info/publication/international-relations-theory/) • E-books on special topics in IR E-International Relations Publishing: https://www.e-ir.info/publications/) • Note: I have also updated and remixed some of the chapters from the IR Theory e-book noted above and am happy to email you .pdfs and .doc versions of these if you are interested. (At the moment I haven’t found a platform to make these publicly available.)

  7. Global Studies • Global Trends reports issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/global-trends-home • International Migration Report issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/data-and-analysis/glotip.html • Global Report on Trafficking in Persons issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/data-and-analysis/glotip.html • The Global City: Introducing a Concept, 2005 article by SaskiaSassen: http://www.saskiasassen.com/PDFs/publications/The-Global-City-Brown.pdf

  8. Political Theory Available through Project Gutenberg E-Books: • Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm) • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232) • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333) __________________________ 4. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (Semanticscholar.org as a PDF)

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