Political Science Internet Sites

Political Science Internet Sites

Center for Democracy and Technology, a site that 1. tracks government activities concerning technology and its use and business practices and 2. tries to increase personal awareness and to encourage political involvement (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
Center for the American Woman and Politics, a site located at Rutgers University, it is dedicated partly to those interested in study at Rutgers or interested in the Eagleton Institute for Politics at Rutgers, partly to more general information about women's studies, partly to a listing of publication of the Center (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement).
Clamen's Political Archives, links to constitutions, agreements, and other political documents from around the world.
Constitution Finder, national and state constitutions and constitution-related material.
FECInfo, campaign contribution information.
Freedom Forum, a site that brings together sources such as the Media Studies Center in New York, the First Amendment Center at Vandebilt University and others. The site is updated each day providing reliable links and stories. (From Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
Gallup Organization, polling group.
Governments on the WWW, a site created by Gunnar Anzinger in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it provides quick links to Web pages for national, regional and international governments (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement).
Guide to the Supreme Court, a useful site with current information (from Choice, Supplement 37).
History and Politics Out Loud, a searchable audio archive of politically significant material (from Choice, Supplement 37).
Human and Constitutional Rights, a new site from Columbia University Law School that offers links to electronic resources concerning constitutional law and international human rights (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
Inter-Parlimentary Union, homepage of the international organization devoted to peace, cooperation among the world's parliamentary governments, and the furthering of representative government. Includes the PARLINE searchable database of information on a given nation's parliament, description of the electoral system, and results of the most recent election; and the PARLIT searchable database of literature on parliamentary law and practice.
Kennedy School Online Political Information Network, a site from the library at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, this site consists of many links to other sites about federal and local government, parties and candidates etc., (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
The National Security Archive, from a non governmental, nonprofit group, this is a useful site (from Choice, Supplement 37).
1998 Governors' State of the State Addresses, links to the text of state addresses from the National Governors Association.
Political Graveyard: A Database of Historic Cemeteries, database about the final resting place of political figures.
Political Information.com, this site tries to be a targeted free service directing users to over 4,000 political and public policy Web sites (from Choice, Supplement 37).
The Political Reference Almanac, from PoliSci.com
Political Resources on the Net, links to worldwide political internet sites indexed by country.
Political Science Resources on the Web, a site organized by Grace York, political science librarian at the University of Michigan. It is a comprehensive site on political science as a subset of the Documents Center for government publications. (From Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
Politics, includes information and links about presidential candidates, political parties, congressional and state candidates, news, issues, and other information.
Poll and Survey Data and Findings, links to international, national, and state polls and surveys.
PoliSci.com,
Project Vote Smart, from the Center for National Independence in Politics Project Vote Smart is nonprofit and scrupulously nonpartisan group with the mission of providing citizens with information about the political system from the level of the state legislature up to the presidency (from Choice, Supplement 37).
Public Agenda Online, a site started by Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance it tries to assist leaders to get a better understanding of the public's point of view on major issues and to assist citizens develop a better understanding of major policy issues (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement)
Public Citizen Congress Watch, information on Congressional actions affecting consumers from the organization founded by Ralph Nadar.
Policy Library, "Publicising Public Policy"
Rand, a public policy analysis organization.
Redistricting, information about redrawing legislative districts for Congress and the states
The Takings Issue, presents material on the taking of land by government for public use; includes environmental material
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, a site directed by David Weissbrodt and Marci Hoffman, this has proved to be the outstanding source of data in the field (from Choice, Aug., 2000 Supplement).

Last Updated September 27, 2001