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Yahoo's List of Resources in Government
Public Administration and Management Journal Editors Jack Rabin and Robert Munzenrider from the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg oversee "The First Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet Devoted to the Fields of Public Administration and Management."
PROceedings (Political Research Online) The American Political Science Association has placed a collection of 130
papers in .pdf format from its 1997 Annual Meeting on a site hosted by
Harvard University.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), an extraordinary meta-page of internet resources.
The Almanac of Politics and Government, a comprehensive reference tool, providing over 1,300 Web pages of political and governmental information about nations worldwide.
Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy Boston University's Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy (ISCIP) studies the political and security developments of "conflict-prone societies in crisis, particularly Russia and other
post-Soviet republics."
Images of American Political History 500 public domain images related to American political history from the colonial era to the present.
Propaganda, techniques and examples of propaganda.
FEDNET Keep track of what's happening in the House and Senate -- especially good with a RealAudio plugin
FEDWORLD, comprehensive list of sources of information on government databases
Government Printing Office (GPO), help for doing a search for documents in the nation's most extensive list of government archives.
GPO Gate, from University of California (same thing as the two above, but a little faster?).
FINDLAW Extensive resources in government and law, includes a convenient "search engine."
Legal News Daily news feeds
from Reuters are available in fourteen categories at this time, ranging
from telecommunications to US Justice Department to various types of
litigation news. There is a searchable archive.
Journals from the Duke University School of Law Full-text articles from Duke Law Journal, Law & Contemporary Problems, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, and Alaska Law Review.
MetaIndex for U.S. Legal Research, provided by the Georgia State University College of Law
TRAC: Findings and Data Graphics on FBI, provided by Syracuse University. This requires a free, easy registration.
WP Politics, from The Washington Post. a compendium of features covering various areas of the American political scene. In addition to the excellent daily coverage of federal politics, it contains analysis of the newly released national budget, news on upcoming political campaigns, a guide section with directory information on members of Congress, and the Administration and state governors.
OYEZ, from Northwestern University, information about important Supreme Court Decisions. Hear the actual Oral Arguments, using RealAudio.
Supreme Court Opinions -- 1937 to Present. Cases can be browsed
by volume number or year, and searched by citation, title and the full text
of the opinions.
Selected Decisions by the Supreme Court, over 300 decisions, from the Cornell Law School.
The Annotated Constitution, cross-referenced Supreme Court Decisions -- maintained by U.S. Senate and Government Printing Office.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and
Debates 1774-1873, part of the US Library of Congress' American Memory Collections.
International Constitutional Law, from University of Würzburg (Germany).
European Governments Online fast and easy access to the main governmental Websites of European nations.
University of Michigan Document Center, an extraordinarily extensive collection of government documents -- state, national, and international levels.
FedStats, from the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
Immigration and Naturalization Statistics, comprehensive annual immigration statistics from 1994-1996, as well as state estimates of the United States' illegal alien resident and foreign-born populations. From the U.S. Department of Justice.
Database on U.S. Counties, from the University of Oregon.
Politics Research Group Working Papers, another resource from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Government Publications and Maps, over 60 country government pages and nearly 100 International Government Organizations. From the library at Northwestern University.
Publications of the Stationery Office, official government publications of the United Kingdom.
Latin American Government Documents Project, from Cornell University.
Political Database of the Americas Provided as part of a joint project by Georgetown University's Resource
Unit on Democratic Governability at the Center for Latin American Studies,
the Organizaton of American States (OAS), and the Canadian Foundation for
the Americas (FOCAL), this database offers documentary and statistical
political information for scholars and politicians studying democracy in
Latin America.
White House Information, from the Library of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives Home-Page
United States Federal Judiciary
Law Journal XTra Produced by the New York Law Publishing Company, the Law Journal Extra! delivers news, provides information on law practices, legal resources, and the marketplace.
First Amendment Center, from the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, searchable
Strategic Intelligence Page, from Loyola University, Baltimore
National Security Archives, an independent non-governmental research institute and library
located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Monthly Catalog of Government Publications
Political Science Sites on the Internet, from University of Houston
The Marketplace of Political Ideas, from University of Houston
10 Downing Street, tours, biographies of Prime Ministers, etc.
The Human Rights Library, searchable documents from University of Minnesota
National Atlas of the United States
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, at the University of Connecticut
