The Library
Websites by Subject - Political Science, Government, & Law
- Abortion Law Homepage
- AllLaw --
an attorney locator with legal forms and more
- The
American Presidency Project -- University of California-Santa
Barbara
- ANES: American
National Election Studies -- statistical
data on American elections since 1948. A joint project of Stanford
University and the University of Michigan.
- Annotated
Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland -- University
of Maryland
- Basic Legal Citation / Introduction --
from Cornell / based on the "Bluebook"
- Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress: 1774 - Present
- Canadian Government Information --
National Library of Canada
- Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace -- dedicated to advancing
cooperation between nations
- Center for American Women and Politics --
A unit of the Eagleton Institute
of Politics at Rutgers
- Center for Political Studies -- University
of Michigan
- Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Chemical and Biological Disarmament --
U. Mich. Documents Center
- Chief
George Manuel Memorial Library and the Fourth World Documentation
Archive -- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- CIA
FOIA: Electronic Reading Room --
access to CIA information released under the Freedom of Information
Act
- Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) and Contract
Weekly
- Constitution
Finder -- offers constitutions,
charters, amendments, and other related documents for 211 governmental
entities worldwide
- Council on Foreign Relations -- "A Center for
the Study and Practice of International Affairs and U.S.
Foreign Policy"
- Country
Reports on Terrorism -- U.S. Department of State
- CQ Researcher / (Congressional
Quarterly) -- full text SMCM only
- CQ Researcher Index -
an online .pdf of the print index
- CQ
Weekly / (Congressional Quarterly)
-- full text SMCM only
- CRS Annotated
Constitution -- online, searchable version
of the US Constitution from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell
University
- Documents Center -- guide
to government documents on the web, from the University of Michigan
- ElectionGuide
-- International Foundation for Election Systems
- Election Resources
on the Internet (ERI) -- links
to external Web sites containing publicly available election data
and other electoral information for 120 countries, by Manuel Avarez-Rivera
- Erik
Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia -- Center for Russian, East European
and Eurasian Studies
- Eurasia Research Center
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical
Documents from Western Europe -- Brigham Young University
- Europa Public Opinion
Analysis -- quantitative and qualitative surveys
- EUROPARL: the European
Parliament online
- European Governments
on-line
- European Union Internet Resources --
UC Berkeley Library
- Federal Judicial Center --
publications, videos, judicial history, and educational materials
- Fedweb - Internet links to government
web sites
- FindLaw
- FIRST, Facts on Internatonal Relations and Security
Trends -- from SIPRI and ISN
- First Amendment Center -- program
of the nonpartisan Freedom Forum affiliated with Vanderbilt University
- FirstGov -- now USA.gov
- Forced Migration Online -- Oxford
University
- Foreign Affairs Online --
Robert J. Beck
- Global Policy Forum
- Governing.com -- current information by and
about state and local government
- Government Performance Project -- nonpartisan
national study on state management
- GPO Access -- Federal
Register, Congressional Record, Economic Report of
the President, and other government publications
- The
History of the Supreme Court -- authored by professors and sponsored
by New York Life Insurance in conjunction with their sponsorship of PBS
series The Supreme Court
- IDEA: International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance -- an intergovernmental
organization that supports "sustainable democracy worlwide"
- INCORE Regional
Internet Guides -- Internet resources on conflict and ethnicity
in specific countries
- International Crisis Group -- Multinational
organization working "to prevent and resolve deadly conflict".
- JURIST -- "The Law School Source for Legal News, Information, and Ideas"
- Legal
Threats Database --
legal threats directed at those who engage in online speech at
the Citizen Media Law Project
- LexisONE -- The
resource for small law firms, free registration required
- LII --
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School
- Maryland Electronic Capital
- Maryland General Assembly
- Maryland
Manual Online -- "A Guide to Maryland Government"
- Maryland
State Archives -- Not just archives! Links to a number
of other Maryland State Government sites
- MERIP: Middle East Research and Information
Project -- non-partisan
think tank reviews all aspects of the Middle East.
- Michie's
Legal Resources -- Maryland
- Migration Immigration Source --
Migration Policy Institute
- Miller Center of Public Affairs
Digital Library -- Presidential
recordings, speeches, and oral histories
- The
National Archives: Records of the UK government from Domesday
to the present
- National Priorities Project --
federal budgetary policy and state and community issues
- Native American Legal Resources -- University
of Oklahoma Law Center
- A
New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787 - 1825 --
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American
Antiquarian Society
- newnations.com and Worldaudit.org - "monitoring
emerging economies" & "democracy check"
- Open Society Justice Initiative --
promotes "rights-based law reform worldwide" in the context of
globalization.
- OYEZ -- U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database at Northwestern Univ. School
of Law
- Patterns of Global Terrorism --
U.S. Department of State
- Plogress -- current information on what representatives
are doing in Congress, includes RSS feeds
- Political
Resources on the Net -- politically related Web sites by country
- Political Science Resources
on the Web -- from the University of Michigan
- President -- Presidential
libraries materials (Leadership Information Archives)
- Public Agenda Online -- Public opinion
and policy analysis from the Public Agenda research organization
- REESWeb: Russian and Eastern
European Studies -- U. Pittsburgh
- Refugee Studies Centre -- Queen Elizabeth
House, University of Oxford
- Richard Kimber's Political Sciences
Resources
- September
11 Resources -- hosted by U. of Arizona
- Smart Growth Online -- sponsored by the
Smart Growth Network
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics --
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- State Agency Databases --
a wiki of state databases by the American Library Associations Government
Documents Roundtable
- State and Local Government on the
Net -- A Piper Resources guide
- State PIRGS Working Together -- Public Interest
Research Groups, the States
- Stateline.Org -- The Pew Center on the States
- students.gov -- "student gateway
to the U.S. government"
- Supreme Court Decisions
- Terrorism: Questions & Answers --
Council on Foreign Relations
- ThisNation -- American government & politics
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet --
full text of bills, Congressional Record, other legislative
information
- Ultimate Political
Science Links Page -- metasite covering Political Science
- United Nations
- United Nations Documentation Research
Guide
- United Nations Scholar's Workstation at
Yale University for students of the United Nations
- United Nations Statistics Division --
statistical data compiled by the UN and other international agencies
- United States
Code -- Government Publications Office of the United
States
- U.S.
Code Collection --
from Cornell University Law School
- United States Government
Manual
- United States Institute of Peace -- "Promoting
the peaceful resolution of international conflicts"
- USA.gov --
formally FirstGov, an interagency initiative administered
by the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen
Services and Communications
- Vinnie's
Home Page: Vincent Ferraro, Resources for the Study of International
Relations and Foreign Policy -- Mount Holyoke College
- WashLaw --
guide to legal information on the Internet by Washington University
School of Law
- The wars for Vietnam, 1945 to 1975 --
Vassar College
- The White House
- WhiteHousetapes.org -- The Miller Center
for Public Affairs at the Univ. of Virginia
- Working-Paper Sites of Political Science
Scholars
- WWW Virtual Library -- International
Affairs Resources
- Zárate's
Political Collections -- dates and
figures of worldwide leadership since 1945
