LibGuides: Political Science: Open Educational Resources

Political Science

This is a collection of openly licensed or free textbooks and materials that can be used to enhance teaching and learning. This page highlights some of the Open Educational Resources (OER) available, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. If you would like to learn more about OER please visit the Open Educational Resources and Textbook Affordability Library Guide.

Political Science Textbooks

OpenStax - American Government 3e American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject.
OpenStax - Introduction to Political Science Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Political Science provides a strong foundation in global political systems, exploring how and why political realities unfold. Rich with examples of individual and national social action, this text emphasizes students’ role in the political sphere and equips them to be active and informed participants in civil society.
American Government and Politics in the Information Age Open source textbook covers the government and the role of information networks in politics.
Attenuated Democracy: A Critical Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics This open textbook looks at U.S. government and politics.
International Relations Theory This is an open textbook dealing with relations of nations to one another. It primarily looks at theories and approaches to this complicated subject.
Principles of Political Economy 3rd ed. This open resource textbook provides an important resource for students seeking to learn about different economic theories.
Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration 3rd ed. This is an open textbook dealing with statistics in Political Science and associated social sciences.
State and Local Government and Politics: Prospects for Sustainability 2nd ed. An open textbook dealing with contemporary U.S. politics and government. This material covers both national and local governments.
Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life The book is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology. Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life has stressed learner-centered teaching with the instructor taking on the role of a facilitator of learning.
Open Textbook Library - Political Science Search A list of political science textbooks from the Open Textbook Library, a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.
LibreTexts - Political Science Search A list of political science textbooks on LibreCommons. LibreCommons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 14 LibreTexts libraries in one convenient location.
Pressbooks Directory - Political Science Search A list of political science textbooks from The Pressbooks Directory, a repository of online resources created using the Pressbooks Authoring and Editing software.

Political Science Resources

Data.gov Open government portal to tools and resources to conduct research.
The Reasons We're Here: Oral Histories of Immigration at Portland Community College - Book This collection of stories about immigration is based on oral histories with staff, faculty, and students of Portland Community College from over twenty countries. Their narratives cover such topics as education, economic hardships and opportunities, family, marriage, documentation status, citizenship, gender, sexuality, war, violence, xenophobia, refugee camps, religion, politics, and language.
Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project - Book Student reflections on race, racism and racial justice
Race, Immigration, and Planning - Course and Materials This course provides an introduction to the issues of immigrants, planning, and race. It identifies the complexities and identities of immigrant populations emerging in the United States context and how different community groups negotiate that complexity. It explores the critical differences and commonalities between immigrant and non-immigrant communities, as well as how the planning profession does and should respond to those differences. Finally, the course explores the intersection of immigrant communities’ formation and their interactions with African Americans and the idea of race in the United States.
OER Commons: Political Science OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources
Open Learn - Society, Politics & Law Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. Our courses are available to start right away.

Political Science Media

C-SPAN: Political Science Set of freely available videos dealing with political science created by the C-SPAN Network.
TEDEd - Political Science Created by Technology, Entertainment and Design or TED this curated selection of videos covers a large number of subjects in Political Science.
CrashCourse - U.S. Government and Politics CrashCourse is an educational YouTube channel started by John and Hank Green in 2012. This curated YouTube playlist covers a number of topics related to U.S. Government and Politics.