You can use the databases below to find articles published in the scholarly and popular press on the politics and governments of countries around the world.
For example, if you were comparing and contrasting the experience of transitioning from communism in Poland and Romania, you might try the following searches:
The *(asterisk) is a truncation symbol. Truncation allows you to search the "root" form of a word with all its different endings by adding a symbol to the end of a word.
So the asterisk after communis* will search for the terms communism and communist.
JSTOR provides full-text PDF access to scholarly journals in Arts and Sciences and Business. The database is searchable by keyword, item type, publication title, and language, and browsable by discipline and journal issue. Each journal has an individual "moving wall" date of available content; the date range is 0-5 years previous to the current year, depending on the journal.