AS OF 12-27-07, NO MORE LINKS ARE ACCEPTED OR PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE. THE WEBSITE IS NOW BEING MAINTAINED FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY.
Acceptable Links
Links placed on this site should go directly to a page with working papers that are relative to political science, sociology, or political history. This page does not have to be exclusively for working papers; working papers just need to be a part of the webpage that is linked. For webpages with content other than working papers, a bookmark that leads directly to the section of the page where the papers are centrally located would be useful, but bookmarks are not mandatory. Sites with non-English papers are welcomed and are placed in the International category. Links to data sets are also welcomed. Working papers may include conference papers, technical papers, discussion papers, staff papers, occasional papers, book chapters, or papers under review for publication. Librarians refer to such material as gray, or grey, literature. Links to previously published papers that are no longer available in print are also accepted.
Non-acceptable Links
Links from sites supported by paid advertising are not added to this website. Links to papers by authors who are not at least on the doctoral level or who have surpassed this level are not accepted. In a multiauthor work, links should go to the first author's webpage or at least to the second author's webpage. No duplications in links and titles to a multiauthor work are accepted past the second author. Although links to published book chapters are accepted, links to papers accepted for publication or links to an article on a journal homepage are not permitted. However, no attempt is made to monitor whether a particular title is eventually published after being added to this website.
Annotations
Titles of working papers placed
fully online are included in the annotations. If the papers are arranged
by categories, the categories rather than titles may be listed in the
annotation. The year of the last draft of each paper and institutional
affiliation would be useful in the annotation. Abstracts and other papers
that must be requested through email may be sent through the
RSS Feed, and such papers
can be listed in either
the Abstract or the
Biography section.
Although the general format is to provide one link from an author's name to a
working-paper section, links to individual working papers may be included in the
annotation under the author's name. Typically the only editing of the
annotation by the webmaster is to add institutional affiliation if possible;
directions for how to browse to the papers if the papers are not easy to locate
on the webpage; and deletion of titles to papers that are not actually online.
Only titles to working papers, rather than papers already published, are
included on this site. No attempt is made, however, to monitor whether
pre-published papers are eventually published.
Annotations to departments and institutions can be descriptive or include no
more than ten example titles. This webmaster is responsible for putting
annotations of submitted links into the consistent annotative format used on
this website. Therefore, authors need to send only a link to their
working-paper site or a simple list of the titles or categories they wish to
include in the annotation.
Placement of Links
All new links are placed on the New Links page. After three months, the links are moved to the Alphabetical List, the Author Name database, and to categories that are based on the papers actually online rather than the author's research interests. Sometimes the categories overlap, so the author has final say in which category his or her name goes, but the alphabetical list offsets the overlap. Titles of papers that are not online, but may be requested from the author through email, are listed in either the Abstract or the Biography section.
Link Removal
The chair of the department (for departmental links), or the person who submitted the link, or the person who directs the website may change the annotation of the link at any time. Those same people may have the link removed at anytime. Links are verified individually every five months--after a semester change--for viability.
Thank you for thinking about this project. Click on the hyperlink below to add your section of working papers.