POLITICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE & LEGAL LINKS (UNITED STATES)

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• American Political Development: The American Political Development website is an undertaking of the Miller Center for Public Affairs' American Political Development Program with the purpose to facilitate the study of American Political Development by bringing together a wide variety of resources for APD scholars in one easily accessible source.
• AmericanPresident.org: A non-partisan resource available on the history and function of the American presidency.
• The American Presidency Project: The American Presidency Project by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters.
• The American Prospect: An online journal of US politics.
• ANES: The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.
• ANF: Assessing the New Federalism State Database: information on all 50 states.
• ANNCON: CRS Annotated Constitution.
• APD: The American Political Development website is a joint undertaking of the Miller Center for Public Affairs' American Political Development Program and the scholars of the American Political History Initiative. Town Square and Electronic Classroom are key features.
• APPC: The Annenberg Public Policy Center.
• The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from the Yale Law School.
• Backgrounder: Current political and economic issues succinctly explained.
• Bioguide Congress: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
• Black members of Congress: Black members of the United States Congress, 1870-2004, a reportby Mildred Amer of the Congressional Research Service.
• Bureau of the Census: The Census Bureau homepage.
• CampaignMoney.com: Campaign Finance in American Politics.
• Campaignline: Congressional Quarterly's online magazine.
• Capitolspotlight: A service of C-SPAN.
• CBO: The Congressional Budget Office.
• CBPP: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
• Clamen's Political Archives: This hierarchy includes copies and remote pointers to copies of various political documents that have been electronically available at some point.
• Congressional Elections Seminar: Teaching Resources for a Seminar on Congressional Elections and Paul Herrnson's, Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington.
• Congresslink: Gateway for government information for students and teachers sponsered by the Dirksen Congressional Center.
• Constitution Finder: This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents searchable by country.
• DCCC: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
• DDRS: 77,000 declassified photographs of early Hanford (1943 - 1960) available on this site.
• DHS: The Department of Homeland Security.
• DoD: The Department of Defense Link.
• DSCC: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
• ElectionGuide: Upcoming dates, information and results for elections around the world.
• Election Resources on the Internet: Links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics.
• Electoral College: U. S. Electoral College.
• FactCheck.org: A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
• Federal forms: FORMS FROM THE FEDS.
• Federal Government Agencies Directory: A List of Federal Agencies on the Internet from Lousiania State University.
• FedWorld: The FedWorld Information Network.
• First Amendment Center: Offers one-stop access to information about the First Amendment for students, teachers, journalists, lawyers and the general public.
• FirstGov: A government search engine.
• FWL: Federal Web locator provided by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
• Founders Constitution: Hailed as "the Oxford English Dictionary of American constitutional history," the print edition of The Founders' Constitution has proved since its publication in 1986 to be an invaluable aid to all those seeking a deeper understanding of one of our nation's most important legal documents.
• Governing.com: Governing is a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government officials: the governors, mayors, legislators, council members, program directors, agency heads, policy advisors and other officials spanning the entire range of responsibility for state and local government.
• Govdocs: University of Michigan Documents Center.
• Government Performance Project: The Government Performance Project's 2005 Evaluation of the States grades state government performance in four areas of management, money, people, infrastructure, and management.
• Government Servers: Links to government servers and information.
• GPO Access: The Government Printing Office.
• GovSpot.com: Portal for government information.
• Hot Topics: Government information on hot topics from the University of Louisville.
• House: The U. S. House of Representatives.
• LII: The LII a legal information portal is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information.
• Locate State Government: Locator of state government homepages.
• Metavid: Open Video Archive of the US Congress.
• MIT Center for International Studies: The Center for International Studies (CIS) aims to support and promote international research and education at MIT.
• MOCAT: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications.
• NACo: The National Association of Counties (NACo) was created in 1935 when county officials wanted to have a strong voice in the nation's capital.
• National Tribal Justice Resource Center: The National Tribal Justice Resource Center is the largest and most comprehensive site dedicated to tribal justice systems, personnel and tribal law.
• NCPA: The National Center of Policy Analysis is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983 to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control.
• NCSL: NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories by providing research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues.
• A New Nation Votes: A searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy, 1787- 1825.
• NPI: National Political Index.
• NPP: National Priorities Projecy, studies the impact of federal budgetary policies and decisions on states and communities.
• NRCC: The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
• NRSC: The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
• openDemocracy: Independent online magazine for free thinkers that offers news & analysis of global politics, democracy & elections.
• Opensecrets: Campaign funding for presidential elections.
• Politicalinformation: A political search engine.
• Poliscinew: Political Science Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan documents center.
• Political Resources on the Net: Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world
• Political Science Quarterly: Online Journal.
• Political Science Resources: Richard Kimber's gateway to Political Science Resources.
• Political Money Line: Database of Federal lobby reports and registrations filed by organizations, corporations, associations, unions, lobby firms and lobbyists.
• Politics1.com: Political links and resources.
• PollingReport.com: A nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
• Poly-Cy: A political science meata-site.
• Postal Service: U.S. Postal Service website.
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States.
• President: A guide to NARA presidential libraries.
• The Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century.: The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives.
• Project Vote-Smart: Organization that wishes to provide voters with useful, dependable, factual information about candidates and issues.
• PSUSP: Political Science Resources for United States Politics from the University of Michigan Library.
• Publicagenda: Nonpartisan coverage of controversial issues.
• Rollcall: Congressional news and information.
• Senate: The U.S. Senate homepage.
• SSA: Social Security Administration, searchable.
• State and Local Goverment: State and Local Government on the Net.
• Stateline.org: Stateline.org is an independent element of the Pew Research Center and is based in Washington, DC.
• State of the Union: State of the Union (SOTU) provides access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006.
• Students Gov: A student's guide to U. S. Government information.
• Subject Indexes to Government Information on the Internet: An index of entries intended to direct the user to subject indexes which have been created for the purpose of identifying government internet resources in a given subject area.
• Thomas: Locate legislative information.
• TRAC Immigrarion: A source for comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about U.S. federal immigration enforcement.
• Ultimate Political Science Links: A political science portal edited and maintained by P.S. Ruckman, Jr. of Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL.
• USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.
• USCM: U.S. Conference of Mayors.
• The U.S. Congress Votes Database: The U.S. Congress Votes Database from the Washington Post with free access after registration.
• The Whitehouse: Homepage.
• WhiteHousetapes.org: Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations and these have been made available by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Links last verified and updated 11/13/2008.

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