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 and Government Page
• John F. Kennedy School of Government: News
• Indiana University Libraries Political Science Resources
• Political Science Manuscripts
  Scholarly manuscripts.
• 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 Information (University of California, Berkeley)
• 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

• Periodicals Available in Easley Library
• 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
• FedNews 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 Oklahoma)
• 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
• Central and East European Legal, Political, Business, and Economic WWW Resources (Gonzaga Law Library)
• 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
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Nations of the World
• Political Database of the Americas
• Resources in Area Studies (Western Michigan)
• Resources in Comparative Politics (Western Michigan)
• Rulers
  Heads of state and heads of government.
• Sinn Fein (Ireland)
• Slavic Resources on the Net (Harvard University)
• WWW's Asian Studies
• WWW's Comparative Politics Resources
• WWW's Internet Guide for China Studies
• WWW's Latin American Studies
• WWW's Middle Eastern Studies: UT at Austin

  Elections and Voting

• American National Election Studies (NES, University of Michigan)
  Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
• Bandwagon: the Complete Guide to Politics on the Internet
• Campaign 2000 (C-SPAN)

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

• CQ's Campaigns and Elections Magazine
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
• Election Notes
• Election Statistics, 1920-  (U. S. House Clerk)
• Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World
• Interest Groups and Lobbying
• National Election Studies (University of Michigan)
  Includes studies and comparisons of electoral systems of democratic societies.
• 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

• Diana: International Human Rights Database (University of Cincinnati)
• 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
• Areas of the World (University of Pennsylvania)
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs
• CaseNet International Affairs (Georgetown)
  Case studies for teaching international affairs.
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
  Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Updated regularly.
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• Conflict Analysis and Resolution Bookshelf (International)
• 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 Governmental Organizations (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• International Relations and Security Network
• ISA's Directory of Internet Resources
• Multilaterals Project (Tufts)
  Texts of international multilateral conventions.
• NATO
• One World Online
  Global justice organizations under one roof.
• Political Science Research Resources
• 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. Diplomatic History Resources Index (Texas A & M University)
  Indexes U. S. foreign relations historical sources.
• U. S. Missions Online (U. S. Dept. of State)
• U. S. House International Relations Committee
• World Bank
• WWW International Relations Resources
• Yale SSCIS International Affairs

  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)
• Mexico Web Guide
  Guide to culture, education, government, and news of Mexico.
• Mexico's Index
  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
• Elections, Political Parties, and Parliaments
• 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)
• Political Party Materials (Louisiana State University)
  U.S. parties, state and local parties, European parties, Asian parties, African parties, interest groups, and Native American parties.
• Reform Party
• Republican Party
• Socialist Party

  Political Philosophy

• Political Philosophers in the World
• Political Philosophy Resources (Louisiana State University)
• Political Thought
• Mahatma Gandhi Page
• Hegel
• Institute for American Liberty
• Links to the Writings of U.S. Presidents
• Marxism Page
• Moral and Political Philosophy (Brown University)
• Right Side of the Web: Conservative Views and Links
• Bertrand Russell Archives
• Adam Smith Institute
• Thoreau

  Population and Demography

• Population and Demography (University of Pennsylvania)

  Political Theory

• Philosophy and Civil Society
  Postmodern period.
• Political Game Theory (MIT)
• Political Methodology Research Resources (Indiana University)
  Game theory, dynamic models, data archives, artificial intelligence, and econometrics.
• Political Philosophy Page
• Political Philosophy Resources (LSU)
• 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)
• Almanac of Politics and Government
• Biographical Directory of the U. S. Congress, 1774-
• Departments of Political Science and Government (University of Connecticut)
• Glossary of Statistical Terms (Rice University)
• 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