Library Guides: Political Science Guide by Subfield: Political Theory and Philosophy

Databases for Political Philosophy

The databases below can provide you with information on political philosophy and theory. Also see the Library's Philosophy Research Guide for additional databases to explore.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes books, journals, and dissertations within the field of political science and related to comparative politics, developing nations, history and theory of political science, political psychology, political economy, public administration, and public policy. [1975 - present]
International in scope.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Major subjects covered include: aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, political and social philosophy, and the philosophy of disciplines such as anthropology, education, history and science. (Philosophers Index) [1940 - present]
Includes references to journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews published in some 550 journals.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science This link opens in a new window
A collection of several Oxford Handbooks covering such topics as: Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy, Political Institutions, Political Methodology.
A collection of several Oxford Handbooks covering such topics as: Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy, Political Institutions, Political Methodology, Political Theory, Public Policy, and the United Nations.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Online reference books introducing key concepts in aesthetics, bioethics, metaphysics, philosophy and literature, rationality and more.
A collection of several Oxford Handbooks covering topics such as: Aesthetics, Bioethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy and Literature, Rationality and more.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, PhilPapers monitors all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. This resource is the largest open access archive in philosophy.
Oxford Reference Online - Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Scholarly online encyclopedias and dictionaries on philosophy, aesthetics, consciousness and more.
Access to a number of reference sources published by Oxford University Press on philosophers, world philosophy, aesthetics, consciousness, and more. Search all sources collectively or search within an individual title.
ProQuest Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Search social sciences indexes on the ProQuest platform.
An interdisciplinary metasearch through 22 of the the social sciences indexes on the ProQuest platform. Includes EconLit, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, PAIS, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and more.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and general interest journals, books, and reports. [1865 - present]
Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.