The following sources provide overviews of ideas and scholarship on issues involved in governance and globalization.  When using an article in an encyclopedia or annual review, always check the bibliography for further reading at the end of the article. It will provide a selective list of the books, articles, and, frequently, Web resources considered to be the most up-to-date and reliable. This is a good start for your research as well as a good corrective later on, often providing a broader perspective than your research on one specific topic.

Fox, Jonathan.  "Unpacking 'Transnational Citizenship.'"  Annual Review of Political Science 8 (June 2005):171-201.
What "counts" as transnational citizenship? Like the related notions of global or transnational civil society, the term's appeal to internationalists is greater than its conceptual precision. However, a wide range of empirical trends do raise questions about the nation-state-based approach to the concept of citizenship. In an effort to avoid conceptual stretching, this essay assesses the degree to which the concept of transnational citizenship helps to address issues raised by "globalization from below." Because many approaches to citizenship focus on the dynamics and texture of participation, this review incorporates recent findings in sociology, anthropology, and geography into the political science discussion. The essay is organized by propositions that bring together analysis of two distinct empirical literatures, on transnational civil society and on migrant civic and political participation. The review concludes by contrasting two cross-cutting sets of definitional choices. The discussion is framed by a recognition that definitions of citizenship vary along two main dimensions: in their emphasis on rights versus membership, and in high versus low intensity. Only a very bounded definition of transnational citizenship holds up under conceptual scrutiny, limited to what is also called dual or multiple citizenship for migrants.


Jacobson, Harold K.  "International Institutions and System Transformation."  Annual Review of Political Science 3 (June 2000): 149-166.  
Starting in the 1990s, scholarship has produced interesting, new, nuanced ideas about the potential role of international institutions in transforming the global political system. Political scientists have achieved a new understanding of how the Westphalian system came into being, and this understanding has provided a rudimentary model of the dynamics of system transformation. The new institutionalism has provided insights into the possible role of institutions. Scholars have developed new understandings of secondary consequences of conducting interactions among nation-states through international institutions. The study of a particular institution, the European Union, has been revitalized and important knowledge has emerged about its dynamics and trajectory. Finally, scholars have begun to raise questions about the properties of a non-Westphalian system, especially about how democratic accountability could be established. This chapter examines each of these developments in turn.

Schwartzman, Kathleen C.  "Globalization and Democracy."  Annual Review of Sociology 24 (August 1998): 159-181.
By 1996, 66% of the countries of the world were using elections to choose their top leaders. This wave of democratization was accompanied by a paradigm shift that took the large number of historically clustered democratizations and called it a "wave." The scholarship has moved beyond overly episodic, event-oriented accounts of democratization to comparative work that investigates the impact of global processes on the political regimes of nations. This review examines numerous renderings of the linkage between globalization and democratization, including: favorable climate for democracy, global economic growth, global crises, foreign intervention, hegemonic shifts, and world-system contraction. Those authors who have advanced a stronger theoretical integration of the global and domestic processes offer exceptional insight into the momentous shifts that recently have occurred.

This recent, scholarly set has special strengths that are well suited for your research:
     1) Emphasis on social science theory, both historical and contemporary
     2) International outlook in many of its articles
     3) Essay-length treatment of many specific topics

Start by looking at the article "Global Governance" Vol.9, pages 6232-6237.  Check the list of sources on page 6237 for new books and journal articles to read. 
There are many related articles including "Globality," "Globalization," and "International Organization."  Use the index (Volume 26) to see all the articles connected to topics including democracy and nongovernmental organizations.

Use the Tripod Catalog to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those materials to find more material.

          democracy  LIMITED BY international organization [Subject Search]
          supranationalism [Subject Search]

          democra* and globaliz* [keyword search]

Tripod - For locating books, journals, and other materials held in the Tri-College libraries. Delivery within the trico usually arrives in one or two days. Use "Request" option. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.

WorldCat - An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 49 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.

Interlibrary Loan  - Request items that are not available in Tripod on this page. Use Article Delivery for journal articles not in the three colleges.  Note that PALCI E-Z Borrow provides only books.   Interlibrary Loan (ILL) supplies books not in E-Z Borrow as well as reports and documents. E-Z Borrow takes around three days to deliver your requested books, and ILL may take up to 10 days.

Dissertations  -Doctoral students go through an exhaustive literature search when writing their dissertations. They also tend to work on new questions, sometimes ones that have received very little attention from scholars before. You can sometimes obtain these dissertations and benefit from all the bibliographic treasures and new ideas.

Check Dissertation Abstracts Online to identify dissertations on your topic. Then request them through the Interlibrary Loan page. Some dissertations are not available in multiple copies and cannot be loaned.

Journal articles and similar periodical publications provide current information and in-depth analysis, usually of fairly focused questions.  The following indexes are the ones most likely to cover the journals that you need.

In finding out more about non-governmental organizations, the Web offers many sites.  The three below are produced by universities and research centers.  They are designed specifically to aid in researching NGOs.

Comparative statistics on developing countries and on industrialized countries may be important for your thesis.  The two sources below are a good beginning point.  For more sources, contact Margaret Schaus (mschaus@haverford.edu)