POL 120 Introduction to Political Ideologies: Find Information for the Ideology Application Assignment

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How can you find evidence a politician's political ideology?

• What statements does the politician make in social media?
• Has the politician given any news interviews or written blog posts?
• Does the politician have an official website? What does it state about their policy positions? What bills have they sponsored and what political ideology do they support?

To look for social media posts, interviews, blogs or websites, search:

To find popular information about a policy maker's position, you can also try their social media feeds. Some good tools to search multiple feeds (Twitter, Facebook, etc) at once include:

When analyzing a policy, you may want to refer to statistics or reference policy analyses from Think Tanks or policy, economics or public administration journals. You can find those using:

Other possible sources include:

(Include the search string "policy analysis" or "public policy analysis" in your search terms for best results)