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Kathleen Sheehan, the FAS library liaison for Government, is available to support researchers via email or in-person consultation.
The librarians in Government Documents and Data Services are also available to provide support.
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There are many databases for doing research on government and political science.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Harvard login) and PAIS (Harvard login) are two major databases for scholarship in this area.
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