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Political Science Librarian: Wendell Johnson
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Web Resources
We also encourage you to examine the detailed Web listings available at this Political Sciences web page.
- "I Do Solemnly Swear . . ." Presidential Inaugurations - This website provides links to digital materials from the presidential inaugural collections at the Library of Congress.
- "With An Even Hand" Brown v. Board at Fifty - Afrocentric Sites
- 2010 Census
- 24-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey
- A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks
- A More United Kingdom
- A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns: 1787 - 1825
- Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project
- African Elections Project
- American National Election Studies
- Anarchrist Library
- Anarchy Archives
- Arab Net - (works best with Internet Explorer)
- Archive of European Integration
- Campaign Legal Center
- Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Carsey Institute: Socio-Economic Indicators (University of New Hampshire)
- Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
- CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Archives
- CIA Special Collections: The CAESAR, POLO and ESAU Papers: Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis of Soviet and Chinese Policy and Decision Making, 1953-1973
- Climate Action: Energy For A Changing World
- College of Europe: EU Diplomacy Papers
- Council on Foreign Relations: Daily Analysis
- Cuba after Castro: Legacies, challenges and impediments
- Digital South Asia library
- Dissent During Crisis in America
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
- Economic Indicators
- E-Democracy.Org
- Electionline
- Electoral Geography 2.0
- Emma Goldman Papers
- EurasiaNet
- European Academy of the Urban Environment
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo
- Faces of the Fallen
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
- Global Integrity
- Government Views of Iraq
- Hoover Institution: Policy Review (ejournal)
- IllinoisAtlas.com
- INCORE internet country guides - INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) is a web site developed from a partnership between the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. The focus is on providing scholarly information on ethnic conflicts in a few selected countries. Each country guide typically includes an annotated list leading to virtual libraries, topical Web sites and reports, news sources, maps, relevant research articles from e-journals, and e-mail lists with clear directions on how to subscribe.
- Institute for Anarchist Studies
- International Criminal Court
- International IDEA: Voter Turnout
- International Institute of Social History: Anarchism Collection
- International Migration and Human Rights
- Internet's Broader Role in Campaign 2008
- Introduction to Public International Law Research
- Iraqi Press Monitor
- Katrina Index: Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction
- Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President's Doorstep
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals: United Nations War Crimes Commission
- London Datastore
- MAPLight (Money and Politics- Illuminating the Connection)
- MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library
- Migration Information Source - Migration data from around the world. Generate tables, create graphs, follow trends. Find out who is going where and how migration is shaping social, political, demographic, and economic futures country by country.
- Monster Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Librar of Congress
- Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
- Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
- Pew Global Attitudes Project
- Pew Internet and American Life Project
- Political Database of the Americas
- Political Science Resource Page
- PollingReport.com
- Poly-Cy: Internet Resources for Political Science
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources
- Race, Immigration and America's Changing Electorate
- Research Resources for the Social Sciences - The site is well organized into 18 different categories, including general resources, reference materials, data archives, and news resources. Each category provides links to web sites including e-journals, listservs, and full-text resources. Another useful category, "Aggressive Pattern Searches," provides links to information about searching the web, effective search strategies, and guides to using Internet search engines.
- Roll Call
- Salzburg Global Seminar
- Samuel P. Goddard Papers Online
- Sea Island Summit 2004
- State Responses to Immigration: A Database of All State Legislation
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
- The Digital Locke Project
- The European Values Study
- The Hague Justice Portal
- The National Archives: The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977
- The Papers of John Jay
- The Pew Financial Reform Project
- The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I 1918-1919
- The Supreme Court Database
- The Torture Archive
- The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
- The World Bank: An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
- U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
- UC Atlas of Global Inequality
- UN Action To Counter Terrorism
- UNICEF: The Convention on the Rights of the Child
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- Williams Institute (UCLA School of Law)
- WWW Virtual Library: Demography and Population Studies
Public Opinion Polls
- ABC News Polling Unit
- Afrobarometer- Africa Public Opinion
- Asian Barometer
- Associated Press/IPSOS Poll
- Canadian Opinion Research Archive
- CBS News Polls
- CISER Data Archive-Public Opinion Surveys
- European Commission: Public Opinion
- FOM: Public Opinion Foundation (Russia)
- Fox News Polls
- Harris Interactive
- Japanese Data Archive
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- L.A. Times Polls
- Latin American Databank
- Latin American Public Opinion Project
- National Opinion Research Center
- New York Times Polls
- NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls
- Pew Research Center
- Public Agenda Online
- Public Agenda: Issues Guide - A subsection of the Public Agenda Online website which explores current hot topics.
- Public Opinion Poll Question Database
- Time Magazine/SRBI Polls
- UK Data Archive
- World Public Opinion.org
- World Values Survey
Organizations
- African Union
- American Political Science Association
- American Society for Public Administration
- Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
- Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Center for Digital Democracy
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Council on Foreign Relations
- First Amendment Center
- Foreign Policy Association
- Freedom House
- Global Policy Forum
- Initiative and Referendum Institute
- International Studies Association
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
- League of Women Voters
- Midwest Political Science Association
- National Congress of American Indians
- National Governors Association
- National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Pacific Northwest Political Science Association
- Public Policy Institute of California
- Southern Political Science Association
- Southwestern Social Science Association
- The Campaign Finance Institute
- The Harris School of Public Policy: Working Papers Series
- The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life
- The Migration Information Source
- The Supreme Court Historical Society
- University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
Research Centers
Legislative Bodies
- Black Members of the United States Congress, 1879 - 2004
- Cámara de Diputados (Chamber of Deputies -- Parliament of Mexico)
- Canada Gazette
- Congressional Hearings: Law Library of Congress
- EUROPA: Justice and Home Affairs
- Indian Parliament
- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
- Senado de la República (Senate of the Republic -- Parliament of Mexico)
- U.S. Congress Votes Database
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
Legislation
- Constitution of the State of Illinois
- Core Documents of US Democracy
- European Union: Regional Policy
- Illinois Law and Government
- League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents - Based at Northwestern University Library, this digital collection contains 260 full-text League of Nations documents from the period 1926 to 1946. Three areas of the League's activities are emphasized: the founding of the League, international statistics published by it, and its work toward international disarmament. Documents are browsable by title and searchable by key words and phrases.
- State Constitutions and Statutes
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet - This site covers major current legislation in both houses of Congress, bill summaries and status, full texts of pending bills, text from the Congressional Record, committee reports, homepages, and links to related US Government legislative resources.
- U.S. Conference of Mayors
Government Organizations
- Council of State Governments
- Federal Election Commission
- Federal Justice Center
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Intelligence Council
- National Security Council
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Presidential Libraries
Arranged Chronologically
- George W. Bush Presidential Library
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum
- Truman Presidential Museum and Library
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
- Theodore Roosevelt Association
- McKinley Memorial Library, Museum and Birthplace
- The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Andrew Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- James Monroe Presidential Library and Museum
- Thomas Jefferson Library





