Political Science
Directories & Metasites
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Congressional Research Service Reports - government reports, prepared for lawmakers, about topics relevant to current political events. Since there is no one web site that provides access to all of these reports, several independent organizations have provided searchable access to selected reports.
- Open CRS Network (Center for Democracy and Technology)
- Congressional Research Service Reports (University of North Texas Libraries)
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Congressional Research Service Reports on Miscellaneous Topics (Federation of American Scientists)
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Political Science Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Library) - an annotated guide by subject to politically related sites on the Internet from statistics to scholarly research.
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National Political Index - links to sites related to politics and elections.
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Political Information - "a search engine related to politics, policy, and political news."
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Voice of the Shuttle - "a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources."
Current Political News
Politics by State
- Stateline.org - "politics and policy news, state by state."
Elections
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Project Vote Smart - a "scrupulously non-partisan" collection of information about elections, candidates and current political issues
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U.S. Electoral College (National Archives and Records Administration) - "information and statistics on presidential elections, past and present"
Government Information
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GPO Access (Government Printing Office) - electronic access to information produced and disseminated by the federal government
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THOMAS (Library of Congress) - includes searchable Congressional and legislative information including current status of all legislation and legislation by subject
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Government Information Online (Savage Library, Western State College) - government-related Web sites arranged by agency and subject
Legal Information
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Lexis-Nexis (for on-campus users only)
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Findlaw - legal resources featuring a searchable, full-text database of Supreme Court Opinions
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Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law Wchool)
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Nolo - a self-help legal publisher with an online legal encyclopedia
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Lawguru.com - a clearinghouse of basic legal information run by a private law firm
- Nations of the World - laws, regulations, and court decisions of various nations that their jurisdictions
Updated November 2006
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