This guide is meant to point researchers in the direction of commonly-used politics & government resources available at Illinois State University. There are also descriptions of general search strategies to use those resources.
This page includes links to various professional organizations within Politics and Government, as well as assistance citing in American Political Science Association Style references.
The Pre-Law Advisement Center was formed in fall 2003 by Dr. Robert Bradley, professor of Politics & Government, to provide Illinois State students interested in attending law school.
The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries.
APSA style, in most instances, follows guidelines set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition(CMS). Throughout this manual, CMS citation numbers are included in parentheses, where appropriate, to refer readers to specific sections of CMS’s 17th edition.