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• 1stHeadlines - News
• Policy.com: The Policy News & Information Service
• Politics in the News
  • Link from Professor Kenneth Janda's American Government page
• National Political Index
• CNN/Time All Politics
• Electronic Policy Network
  • This gateway leads to numerous public policy research organizations and journals.
  • Most have a "liberal" or "progressive" slant.
  • On the other hand, lots of published and unpublished articles and papers are available. I would think this site would be an excellent place to look for research materials.

• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
  • A super site for information about current events, information made available by groups and individuals of all political persuasions.
  • Look here for among other things, information about welfare reform.
• Center for Responsive Politics
  • A very good site for campaign finance information.
• Center for Public Integrity: "The Public I"
• Institute for Better Education Through Resource Technology Many interesting links. This site wants to encourage political participation.
• Gallup Poll Inc.(May not always be running)
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
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• The LLSDC Legislative Source Book
• Senate Home Page
• House of Representatives
• Congressional Research Service (Gopher site)
• Contract With America
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• House Democratic Leadership
• Senate Leadership (FTP site)
• House Democratic Caucus
• House Whip's Page
  • Includes audio if "realaudio" software is available
• Congressional Budget Office
• The Green Book1998 Edition
  • This is the famous Green Book.
    It contains a wealth of information (data, laws, analyses) pertinent to programs that fall
    within the jurisdiction of the House Ways and Means Committee.
• Congressional Votes
  • Search here for senators and representatives votes on key issues
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• The White House
• White House Latest News
  • Press Briefings, Reports, and Data
• Office of Management and Budget
• Budget of the United States Government - Fiscal Year 2001
  • Citzen's Guide to the Budget
  • Budget of the US Government, FY 2000 - Download docs
• Government Accounting Office (GAO)
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• Audio transcripts of Supreme Court Cases
  • You must have Real Audio software in order to listen.
• Cornell University site for many "searchable" Supreme Court decisions.
• Cornell University Legal Information Institute
• Supreme Court Decision Home Page
  Contains a "searchable" data base of Supreme Court decisions, 1937 to present.
• Findlaw This is a very useful source for court cases.
• Washburn Univrsity School of LawA great place to search law reviews and find information about law schools.
• Supreme Court Simulation
• Court TV Law Center
• Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics
  • You can search this source for data on crime and justice in the U.S.
• Harvard Law School Forum
• Legal Engine
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State Governments

• Council of State Governments

• National Technical Information Service
  • A great place to start looking for government documents and data
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies
• Central Intelligence Agency
• United States Department of State
• Department of Justice
• Dpartment of Defense
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Federal Election Commission
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Agriculture
• Environmental Protection Agency WWW Server.
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Housing and Urban Development Publications
• Social Security Administration
• Federal Communications Commission
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
• FBI
• United States Intelligence Community
• National Park Service
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• Office of Management and Budget
• Budget of the United States Government - Fiscal Year 2001
  • Citzen's Guide to the Budget
  • Budget of the US Government, FY 2001 - Download docs
• Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2000
• FY 1999 Federal Budget Publications (Office of Management and Budget)
• National Budget Simulation
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• Gallup Poll
• Zogby International
• Public Agenda Foundation
  • Lots of studies related to public opinion.
• National Opinion Research Center (NORC)

Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion

American University Campaign Finance Website
• CSPAN Campaign 2000
• Political Resources Online
• Roll Call OnLine Politics
• Elections.Com
• Keys to the White House - Predict the Winner A game.

  Some Political Party Sites

  • Democratic National Committee
  • State Republican Parties
  • Republican Homepage
  • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
  • Communist Party USA
  • Libertarian Party
  • Republican Web Central
  • Grand Old Page Directory of Political Sites
  • Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute

  British Political Parties

  • The Conservative Party
  • The Labour Party
  • The Liberal Democratic Party
  • The 1997 British General Election Pointer to many, many resources dealing with British politics and elections.

  Other election, party, and campaign sources

  • Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
    • You should be able to find anything you are looking for here.
  • Canadian Public Opinion Archive
  • Democratic National Committee
  • Grand Old Page (GOP)
  • Project Vote Smart
  • Links to Political Parties and Elections
  • Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
  • CBS News Site
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  Public Opinion in General

  • Polling Report - Public Opinion on Line
  • Pew Center: People and the Press
    • Lots of poll data with commentary
  • American National Election Studies Page
  • General Social Survey GSS Public opinion over time
  • SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis
    • A great place to find public opinion poll data that can be analyzed quite simply.
    • Example: cross-classify opinions by race or gender.
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• Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1999
• City and County Data Book (Top 77 City Rankings)
• University of Michigan's Statistical Resources on the Web
  • This is huge and wonderful collection of data sources on all sorts of economic, political, population, and social issues. Don't miss it!
• Ameristat: One Stop Source for U.S. Population Data
• Poverty and Welfare Homepage
  • Lots of data and information about poverty and welfare in the United States
• Population Reference Bureau
  • An invaluable source
• Wisconsin Center for Demography and EcologyLinks to many other data banks.
  • CDE On-line Bookshelf
• STAT-USA/Internet Information System
• Demographic Research
• Census Bureau Home Page
  • Census Economic Briefing Room
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education Publications
• BTS Home Page - Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
• Demographic Data Viewer
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Historical Social, Economic, and Demographic Data from the Census
  • A limited but very easy to use collection of data from 1790 to 1860 census.
  • It's not possible to download data, but you can print tables and move the information to spread sheets.
• United Nations: Infonation
  • "InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. "
• World Economic Outlook Database International Monetary Fund
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• Political Advocacy Groups
  • Links to dozens and dozens of groups.
• Feminist Majority
• Cato Institute
• Heritage Foundation
  • Conservative think tank
• Common Cause
• "Left-wing" causes
• AFL-CIO Labor Page
• EMILY'S List - A Political Network For Pro-Choice Democratic Women
• League of Women Voters
• NOW- National Organization for Women
• Center for Democracy and Technology
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• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress: American Memory
• National Archives
• Inaugaral Addresses of U.S. Presidents
• The University of Michigan's Documents Center This is a GREAT SOURCE of current events information and documents.
• Democratic Socialists of America Bibliography A very useful list of socialist and liberal books.
• University of Oklahoma Law Center -- A Chronology of Historical U.S. Documents
• University of Delaware Library
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• C-SPAN Networks
• Public Broadcast System (PBS)
• National Public Radio
  • An easy and great way to keep informed.
• All Politics (CNN, Time)
• American Political Network
• Associated Press
• CBS Up To The Minute
• CNN Interactive
• Time World Wide
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC
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• American Journalism Review NewsLink.
  • Links to hundreds of American and foreign newspapers.
• The New York Times
  • A great resource but does not replace the real thing.
  • I suggest that you register. It only takes a minute.
• The Washington Post
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Boston Globe
• The Detroit Free Press
• St. Louis Post Dispatch
• San Francisco Chronicle Examiner
• Minneapolis-St. Paul Start Tribune
• Documents in the News: Documents Related to Current Events
• Reuters NewsMedia
  • No pictures but good quick summary of current events.
• American Prospect
  • Liberal but excellent.
• Campaigns and Elections On-Line
• USA Today
• The Christain Science Monitor
• New Republic
  • Moderate to liberal
• Political Science Quarterly
  • Scholarly journal and an excellent source for American politics, foreign policy, and international affairs.
• The Atlantic Monthly
• Congressional Quarterly
• Roll Call
• The London Times
• The Guardian, an excellent British Paper.
• The Economist, a weekly British newsmagazine.
• The Financial Times of London
• Le Monde - Diplomatique
• Ms. Magazine
• Washington Weekly (for fee)
• Washington Weekly: All Things Political
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• Political science research methods.
  • Look under chaper links and in particular Chapter 6 for pointers to all the information you need about government and politics.
• Brookings Institution
  • A good source for policy papers that are relatively straight forward and very interesting.
• Universal Codex for Social Sciences
  • A huge list of pointers to social science reserach methods sources, data, tools, and so forth.
• Marxism page
  • Contains "hypertext" versions of famous Marxist-Lennist works.
• Almanac of American Politics
• Political Methodology Home Page
• The Rand Corporation
  • Great source of information about public policy, especially economics and national security.
• Political Humor Sites The Electronic Newsstand: Magazones
• On-line statistics courses and material
  • CHANCE A course that explains probability in an interesting and engaging manner.
  • Data and Story Library
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• History and Politics Outloud
  • Small collection of speeches.
• Wiretap
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Internet Citation Guides
• Elements of Style Stunk and White's style sheet.
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Go to Political Science 150 page

Go to H. T. Reynolds page

H. T. Reynolds
Let me know if you need other suggestions.

Last updated November 26, 2002.
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