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Political Science
General Sites
| American Politics
| US Federal Government
| Political Parties
| Campaigns & Elections
| Interest Groups
| California/State Government and Politics
| Public Policy
| Public Administration
| Comparative Politics
| International Relations
| Political Methodology
| Political Economy
| Political Theory
| Data Resources
| News Sources and e-Journals
| Internships
| Related Sites
Class related web pages:
[Congressional Representatives & Their Districts]
[Tracing Federal Legislation]
The following web sites offer links to a broad spectrum of Political Science areas of interest.
- APSANet:American Political Science Association Web Site
- A good overall site with links to
professional information such as Political Science departments, Political Science organizations, scholarly journals, conferences, scholarships, grants, directories,
and interest area mailing lists. Includes Association information such as membership, personnel service, organized sections of APSA, national office, Association governance, APSA publications, grants and fellowships.
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
- Straightforward arrangement of links by major topic areas spanning political science interests with an international scope: government sources, constitutions and trea
ties, elections and electoral systems, political parties and interest groups, political theory, area studies, local and regional government, international relations, data, journals and news sources, and bibliographic tools.
- Political Science Resources on the Web
- One of the most attractively arranged and highly rated Political Science sites, by Grace York, Political Science Librarian at the University of Michigan. Includes sections for major subfields such as US politics, foreign politics, international relations, political theory, as well as links for methodology, statistics, reference tools, periodicals, professional organizations, area studies, news, and government resources.
- Yahoo: Politics
- Hierarchical subject list of Internet resources in Political Science
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- United States Politics
- A comprehensive site with links related to campaign finance, elections, interest groups, political parties, federal and state governments, public opinion, public policy issues, statistics, and journals.
- The American Presidency Project
- A developing site that includes text, audio and video for state of the union and inaugural speeches for presidents since Franklin Roosevelt. Also provides some data about presidents and polls, with links to Presidential libraries.
- See also related sections of this web page:
- Interest Groups, Campaigns and Elections, Public Policy, and US Federal Government
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- Political Parties
- Links to national and state Democrat, Republican and Third party web sites.
- Democratic National Committee
- Republican National Committee
- California Democratic Party
- California Republican Party
- Santa Barbara Democrats
- Santa Barbara Republicans
- See also related sections of this web page: Campaigns & Elections and Public Policy
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- InfoSurf United States Government Resources
- Executive Branch
- White House
- U.S.Federal Government Agencies Directory
- FedWorld
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) guide to online U.S. government information. Includes a subject list of government web, gopher, telnet and ftp sites, and indexing to NTIS and other government reports.
- Legislative Branch
- Thomas: Library of Congress Legislative
Information
- GPO Access
- Full text and field level searching of Federal Register, Congressional Record, Public Laws, US Code, GAO reports, Congressional bills, and History of bills.
- FirstGov
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- Judicial Branch
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Official U.S. Supreme Court web site. Includes the docket, calendar, court rules, opinions, orders and other information about the Court.
- Supreme Court Collection
- Cornell Legal Information Institute site for Supreme Court decisions.
- United States Federal Courts Finder
- Provides links to web pages for each of the federal circuit courts, including a map showing states included in each district. Most districts include full text to decisions from 1995 to date.
- Court Web Sites
- Provides links to state, federal and foreign courts.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices' Biographies and Pictures
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PRESIDENT & CONGRESS
- White House '04
- A megasite for tracking information about Presidential candidates, news and analysis. Includes latest news and research on each major candidate, and links to the primary web sites that provide news and analysis of issues and candidates.
- National Election Studies (NES)
- Time series statistics and research on national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years. NES produces data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
- CNN AllPolitics Election 2004
- Project Vote Smart
- Includes information on candidates and elected officials, campaign finance, federal and state elections, issues and political parties.
CALIFORNIA
- California Secretary of State Elections site
- Information about current and past general and primary elections, ballot measures, election statistics, and voter registration.
- California Voter Foundation
- Nonpartisan site with information elections, initiatives, and news.
- Santa Barbara County Election Information
- Includes General Election results, polling places, turnout by precinct, sample ballot, and information on measures and propositions.
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- Lobby Group Web Sites
- Arranged as a list of issue areas. Provides links to interest groups related to each issue. Also includes links to other web sites with information on political and policy issues.
- Project Vote Smart Issues & Issue Groups
- Arranged as a list of issue areas. Provides links to interest groups related to each issue. Also includes links to other web sites with information on political and policy issues.
- California Interest Groups on the Web
- Arranged as a list of issue areas. Provides links to interest groups related to each issue.
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- California Government and Public Policy
- UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies web site links to state agencies, legislature and legal information, statistical data and polls, local and regional governmental organizations, political parties, campaigns and elections, California media, and public policy resources.
- California Voter Foundation Internet Resources for California Citizens
- Links to information about elections, ballot initiatives, state and federal government sites, campaign finance, polls and surveys, and California interest groups.
- InfoSurf Guide to California Government
- Links to California government websites
- State Government and Politics
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- Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management
- Brookings Institution
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Moving Ideas: Electronic Policy Network
- Links to progressive web sites for network members and affiliates, such as Twentieth Century Fund, Economic Policy Instistute, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Russell Sage Foundation, and Commonwealth Fund.
- Global Policy Forum
- Monitors policy-making at the United Nations. Includes links to other resources in international relations and policy.
- Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
- Extensive links to American and California government and public policy sites, including major policy institutes.
- Project Vote Smart: Issues Information
- Provides links to websites on a number of public policy issue areas, such as affirmative action, government reform, campaign finance, immigration, health care, international trade, crime.
- Public Agenda Online
- Public Policy Institute of California
- RAND
- Think Tanks
- Well organized site providing links to conservative, liberal, international think tanks, public policy institutes and organizations.
- Think Tank
- Transcripts of the PBS weekly series, Think Tank, which addresses a single public policy issue on each program. Semi-regular panelists include James Q. Wilson, Paul Kennedy, Lani Guinier, Robert Bork, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Roger Wilkins.
- The Urban Institute
- Includes text of the Institute's staff papers on a variety of social and economic policy issues such as health care reform, welfare, federalism, and tax reform. Also features links to the Institute's Annual Report, the Institute's two periodicals Policy and Research Report and Policy Bites, their publications catalog, and a searchable database of the Institute's books and research papers.
- Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
- This University of Arizona public policy center focuses research on issues related to the Southwestern United States--U.S.-Mexico border, enivronmental conflict resolution, water resources in the Southwest, environmental health policy, and social and policy dimensions of global change. In addition to information about publications and organization of the center and the Udall Foundation, this site provides links to related internet resources on their issues of interest.
- Yahoo's US Political Issues Guide
- Links to several sites on hot public policy issues.
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- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- American Society for Public Administration
- Includes information about the organization, its publications and conferences, as well as research in public administration, job postings, and links to other public administration web sites.
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- Constitutions of the World
- Links to a number of sites with the text of constitutions and related information
- Lijphart Election Data Archives
- Provides district level election data for over 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries
- Area Studies Resources
- Western Michigan University site with links arranged by world region.
- Political Database of the Americas
- Product of Georgetown University's Resource Unit on Democratic Governability with support from the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy of the
OAS (Organization of American States) and the Tinker Foundation. The database provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions,
electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data.
- Guide to Law Online: NATIONS OF THE WORLD
- Law Library of Congress site which has an annotated hypertext list of World Wide Web servers, Gophers and other
Internet sources that provide free access to legal information and/or information on the overnmental systems of virtually all of the world's nations as well as some associated jurisdictions that have legal systems which are at least minimally distinct or independent. Useful for locating information on chiefs of state and major officials, basic facts and statistics, human rights reports, and legal documents such as constitutions, codes. Information varies considerably by country and availability.
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- WWW Virtual Library:International Affairs Resources
- One of the most frequently referenced websites for international affairs. Links are arranged by source, type of information , and topics such as areas sutdies, economic development, foreign policy, human rights, security, international economy, and peace and conflict resolution.
- Global Policy Forum
- Monitors policy-making at the United Nations. Includes links to other resources in international relations and policy.
- IGC Internet
- Institute for Global Communications links to PeaceNet, EcoNet, AntiRacismNet, and WomensNet
- InfoSurf Guide to International Governmental Organizations
- Provides links to major international organizations such as the United Nations, Organization of American States, NATO, European Union, World Bank and others.
- InfoSurf Guide to Global Peace and Security
- The Multilaterals Project, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
- The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project designed to make available the texts of
international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
- United Nations Home Page
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- The Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology
Section (APSA)
- Acts as a gateway to on-line conference papers, providing abstracts and full text of working papers. Also includes conference information and back issues of The Political Methodologist.
- Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
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- IPEnet: International Political Economy Network
(University of Colorado)
- Well arranged site called IPENet, sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association. Includes IPENet archives information accessible geographically or topically, and links to publications, academic departments, course syllabi, and related web sites.
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- Political Theory
- Provides links to major political theory sites.
- Political Philosophy Resources
- This site provides about two dozen links to political theory Internet sites. Sections are arranged as general sites (mostly academic institution sites), philosophy, religion and theology, Marxism, anachy, documentary sources, and miscellaneous sites of interest.
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- Data, Statistics
- InfoSurf Social Sciences Gateway collection of online statistical sources.
- UCSB LSIT: Letters & Science Information Technology
- ICPSR Home Page
- UC San Diego Social Sciences Data Collection
- Yahoo Social Science Data Sources
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- LexisNexis Academic
- Full text of newspaper articles from around the country and around the world.
- InfoSurf Newspapers
- Comprehensive listing of news sources on the web--local, California, national and international newspapers and news broadcasts.
- Political Science and Sociology Online Publications
- Includes an extensive list of journals, magazines, and news sources.
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- UC Washington Center
- American University Washington Semester
- Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
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- UCSB Political Science Department Home Page
- UCSB Law & Society Department Home Page
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Author: Lucia Snowhill
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