Political Science Subject Guide

General Sources | Journals | American Politics | Comparative Politics | Elections and Voting | Human Rights | International Relations | Mexico | Organizations | Political Parties | Political Philosophy | Population and Demography | Primary Souces l Political Parties l Public Opinion | Reference | Political Theory | Terrorism

General Sources

• Drake's Politics, Government, & International Relations Page
• John F. Kennedy School of Government: News
• Indiana University Libraries Political Science Resources 
• Lexis-Nexis News (excellent)
• NIU's Ultimate Political Science Links Page
• On The Issues (Every political leader on every issue)
• Political Methodology: Political Science Resources  
• Political Science Resources
• University of Michigan's Political Science Resources on the Web
• University of Michigan Documents Center
• WWW Resources for Political Scientists (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Yahoo: List of Links by Country

  Journals

   
• American Diplomacy: Commentary, Analysis and Research on American Foreign Policy and Its Practices
• Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
• Political Science Quarterly
• Slate: Online Journal of Political and Social Commentary

American Politics

• All Politics
  Polls and daily news from Time/CNN.
• American Political Science Association
• Cold War Hot Links
• Congressional Hearings on the Web (University of Michigan)
• CQ's Campaigns and Elections
• The Democratic Party Online 
• Library of Congress
• Political Parties: USA
• Politics.1
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• Presidential Elections, 1860-Present (University of Virginia)
• Republican National Committee
• State and Local Governments: a Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Trac: FBI (Syracuse University)
  traces FBI enforcement and staffing activities.
• United States Government Links (University of North Dakota)
• U. S. Code
• U. S. House of Representatives
• U. S. Politics: Current Events
• U. S. Senate
• WWW American Politics Resources
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• The Whitehouse

  Comparative Politics

• Al Mashriq: the Levant (Lebanon and the Middle East)
• Anarchy Archives
• Area Studies
• Asian Studies
• Constitutions of the World
• France Diplomatie
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  Database of national laws of contributing countries.
• Governments on the WWW
• Index on Africa
• Nations of the World
• Political Database of the Americas 
• Rulers
  Heads of state and heads of government.
• Sinn Fein (Ireland)
• WWW's Asian Studies
• WWW's Comparative Politics Resources
• WWW's Internet Guide for China Studies
• WWW's Latin American Studies

  Elections and Voting

• American National Election Studies
  Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. 

• Candidates & Issues Matrix  (U.S. Presidential Race 2008)

• CQ's Campaigns and Elections Magazine
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
• Election Statistics, 1920-  (U. S. House Clerk)
• Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World
• Interest Groups and Lobbying
• National Political Index
• Political Site of the Day
• Presidential Elections, 1860-1996 (University of Virginia)
• Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard University)
• Townhall: Conservative News and Information
• Vote Smart Web
• Wilfred Dirkson's Electoral Web Sites
• Yahoo: Government-Politics-Elections

  Human Rights

• Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
  Collection of national and international human rights documents.
• Human Rights in China
• Human Rights Web
  

International Relations

• American Diplomacy: Commentary, Analysis and Research on American Foreign Policy and Its Practices 
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
  Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Updated regularly.
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• EmbassyWeb
  Addresses, phone numbers and email of embassy posts worldwide.
• Executive Agencies and Departments for U. S. Foreign Affairs
  Bureau of International Labor Affairs (Dept. of Labor)

  Department of Defense
  Department of State
  International Information Programs
  International Trade Administration (U. S. Dept. of Commerce)
  International Trade Commission
  National Security Agency
  USAID: Agency for International Development

• Foreign Affairs Page: University of Virginia
• Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
• Global Policy Forum
  Policy making at the United Nations.
• Harvard's Model UN
• Infonation
  Up-to-date statistical information for member nations of the United nations.
• IGC Networks
  PeaceNet, Econet, Labornet, Womensnet, and Conflictnet.
• International Affairs Budget (U. S. Dept. of State)
• International Affairs Resources: WWW Virtual Library (Elizabethtown College)
• International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (University of Maryland)
• International Relations and Security Network
• International Studies Association Directory of Internet Resources
• Multilaterals Project (Tufts)
  Texts of international multilateral conventions.
• NATO
• One World Online
  Global justice organizations under one roof. 
• Political Science Resources: International Relations (University of Michigan)
• Strategic Planning for International Affairs
• STRATNET (University of Calgary)
  Strategic Studies Program search tool for security, strategic studies, international relations, and politics.
• United Nations
• U. S. Code
• U. S. Dept. of State Telephone Directory
• U. S. Missions Online (U. S. Dept. of State)
• U. S. House International Relations Committee
• World Bank
• WWW International Relations Resources

  Mexico

• LANIC:Government and Political Science (University of Texas)
  Scroll down to Mexico. Lists sites of diplomatic missions, elections, and political parties.
• Mex Master
  In Spanish.
• Mexico (University of Guadalajara) 
• MexicoChannel
  Information on Mexican news, government, legislation, economy, foreign trade, and culture.
• Political Database of the Americas: Mexico (Georgetown University)
  

  Organizations

• American Political Science Association
• International Political Science Association

  Political Parties

• Contacting National Political Parties
• Democratic Party 
• Green Parties Worldwide
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
• Libertarian Party
• PARLINE Database: Directory of Parliaments Around the World
• Political Parties Around the World
• Political Parties, Interest Groups and Other Social Movements (Richard)
• Reform Party
• Republican Party
• Socialist Party

  Political Philosophy

• Political Philosophers in the World 
• Political Thought  
• Institute for American Liberty
• Links to the Writings of U.S. Presidents
• Marxism Page
• Moral and Political Philosophy (Brown University) 
• Bertrand Russell Archives
• Adam Smith Institute
• Thoreau

  Population and Demography

• Population Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)

  Political Theory

   
• Political Philosophy Page
• Political Philosophy Resources (Western Michigan University)
• Political Theory: Vanderbilt

  Primary Sources 

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
  documents in law, history and diplomacy, pre-18th century to 20th century

• EuroDocs
  full text historical documents from Western Europe in full text

• Historical Text Archive
  texts and maps from world history

Public Opinion

• Gallup Polls
• Polling Report
• Public Agenda Online
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Reference Sources

• Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U. S. Government (Indiana University, Purdue)
• Biographical Directory of the U. S. Congress, 1774-
• Departments of Political Science and Government (University of Connecticut) 
• National Political Index
  Political information for voters, political activists, commentary and analysis, profiles of officials, national agenda issues, and readers discussion.
• U. S. Government Manual
• Washington Post Politics
  Election and government news.
  

  Terrorism

• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism
• Terrorism: Patterns of Global Terrorism
• Terrorism Research Center