Research Guide: Political Science

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: From Yale, "digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."
Political Science Databases: Milne Library databases which include information on political science.
U.S. Congress Votes Database: "A deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress." From the Washington Post.

The American Presidency Project: Contains over 67,000 documents of the presidencies. Includes many public papers, executive orders, and presidential addresses.
Catalog of United States Government Publications (CGP): A key index to over 500,000 federal publications, some going back as far as 1976. Includes descriptions of historical and current publications and provides links to those available online. Plans are underway to include documents going back to the early 1800s. Search by agency, title, subject, and general key word.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Provides the full text of the basic documents that define our democratic society, including the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Statistical Abstract, U.S. Government Manual, Supreme Court Decisions, and more.
Federal Depository Library Gateways
GPO Access: A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of databases produced by the Federal Government.
How Our Laws Are Made: Outlines and explains the Federal legislative process.
Politics in America: Get the password from the Off-campus access page.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Statistics organized by category from the University of Michigan's Document Center.
U.S. Census Bureau: The Official Statistics. Searchable.
U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory: This directory provides links to all executive, judicial, legislative, and independent agencies listed in the U.S. Government Manual. Searchable by keyword.
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
White House

Amnesty International USA: "Working to protect human rights worldwide."
American Civil Liberties Union: A nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest organization devoted to protecting individual rights and "extending civil liberties to groups that have traditionally been denied them."
Annenberg Public Policy Center: "Conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences, and convenes roundtable discussions that highlight important questions about the intersection of media, communication, and public policy."
The Brookings Institution: "An independent, nonpartisan organization" dedicated to research on public policy issues.
Center for Law and Social Policy: "A national, non-profit organization...conducts research, policy analysis, techinical asssistance and advocacy on issues related to economic security for low-income families."
Nationalissues.com: Presents a range of perspectives on major American policy issues including education, social security, taxes, defense, foreign policy and gun control.
Speakout.com: Policy news and information service intended for students of public policy issues, such as crime, health care, affirmative action, foreign policy, trade. Links to policy institutions as well as student political organizations.

New York Legal Resources: Searchable database of Court of Appeals decisions, links to NYS law schools.
New York State Government Information Locator Service

Open Secrets .org: Campaign finance, PACs, lobbyists, political parties, profiles of candidates.
Commission on Presidential Debates: Historical debate resources back to 1858.
Elections the American Way from the Library of Congress: Information on the election process including candidates, voters, the party system, and issues. Directed towards teachers.
FactCheck.org: Annenberg Political Fact Check: An independent site that examines political speeches, debates and advertistements for accuracy.
The History of Televised Presidential Debates from the Museum of Broadcast Communications: Site contains video, photos, essays, links and a well done bibliography for further research.
Project Vote Smart: Project Vote Smart tracks the performance of over 13,000 political leaders including the President, Congress, Governors, State Legislators. Includes addresses, biographies, issues, voting records of candidates as well as elected officials. Find your representative by zip code.

Findlaw: Internet Legal Resources: Laws, cases, subjects of interest, law schools, directories, reference.
Legal Information Institute of the Cornell Law School: Links to all case law including current and historical Supreme Court decisions, hypertext version of U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals.
Milne Library Law Page: Links to general, government and consumer law sources.
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet: Current and historical bills, laws, committee information and reports. Selected hearing transcripts.

CIA: Look under Library & Reference for the World Factbook, Chiefs of State, and The Factbook on Intelligence.
Country Studies/Area Handbook Series: These publications from the Library of Congress describe and analyze the political, economic, social, cultural and national security systems and institutions of each country.
Foreign Government Resources on the Web: From the University of Michigan, these web pages are clustered by region broad subject area, such as Foreign or Statistics, in order to facilitate research.
Political Database of the Americas: Includes constitutions, electoral laws, links for current events and news in Latin America.
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