Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Since 2000, development of the serials list has focused on expanding international coverage. As of November 2005 approximately 1,500+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.

The references cited in the bibliography of the source article have been included for citations to core journals in political science, added to the database since 2001, and for all journals added since 2004. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these references are linked both within Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and across other social science databases available on Illumina. For further information on this valuable feature, please see Cited Reference Linking. All records added since 2000 are indexed using a thesaurus of over 3,000 terms.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

• Comparative politics
• Developing nations
• Disarmament
• Economic policy
• Electoral systems
• Environmental policy
• Government/Political systems
• History and theory of political science
• International relations/trade
• Labor relations
• Military policy
• Methodology and research technology
• Political behavior
• Political economy
• Political psychology
• Politics and law
• Politics and communication
• Politics and religion
• Politics and society
• Public administration
• Security and defense
• Welfare systems

Update Frequency
Monthly. Approximately 20,000 new records added per year.

Thesaurus Availability
The database is indexed using a thesaurus of over 3,000 main terms. The thesaurus is available online.