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American Civil Liberties Union - This website offers timely information on a range of civil liberties issues. This site also carries newswire articles from publications throughout the US and archives that contain several years of major news reports. This site is highly recommended for general readers, students at all levels and research scholars.[Reviewed]

American National Election Studies(NES) - This site provides access and information about some of the data collected by the NES at the University of Michigan.[Reviewed]

American Political Science Association

Assessing The New Federalism State Database - This is a website funded by the Urban Institute, makes available at no charge information on the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The site also includes published research and downloadable data on income security, health, child well-being, demographics, fiscal and political conditions, and social services.[Reviewed]

Biographical Directory Of The United States Congress: 1774-Present - As part of its self-mandated transition to government information in electronic format, the US Congress presents a Web version of this long-standing historical publication.[Reviewed]

The Brookings Institution

Campaigns And Elections(Formerly Titled Congressional Quarterly's American Vote) - This site provides students and citizens with a reliable, convenient, and useful starting point for obtaining a wide variety of information on American politics.[Reviewed]

Center For Democracy And Technology - This website has pages that track relevant government activities and business practices with substantial archives including, most notably, testimony, speeches, policy papers, and other material prepared by CDTs own attorneys and policy analysts. This is also famous for following pending legislation's.[Reviewed]

Center For Information Law And Policy - This is one of the several sites that have changed the scope of legal research. Outstanding among the interesting collections are links to federal and state government information, with special emphasis on court decisions. A database of all Supreme court opinions from 1937-75 is included.[Reviewed]

Center For Responsive Politics - This website is a virtual gold mine for scholars studying the influence of money in contemporary congressional politics. Recommended for all levels.[Reviewed]

Center For The American Woman And Politics - This website is dedicated partly to information and links for those interested in the Eagleton Institute for Politics or graduate study at Rutgers University;partly to links to more general women's studies information;partly to list of CAWP publications.[Reviewed]

Center for the Study of the Presidency - Organization devoted to the academic study of the presidency. Contains a useful collection of web links on both foreign and domestic policy areas. The Center Fellowship Program provides a great opportunity for students to participate in leadership programs on the presidency with high ranking government officials.

Center On Budget And Policy Priorities - This website provides background information on the evolution of CBPP as well as on its highly successful "Earned Income Tax Credit" campaign, expanded fiscal policies and safety nets, and much more.[Reviewed]

The Center For Voting and Democracy - This site is purpose-built for explaining and advocating the proportional representation (PR) election system for the US.[Reviewed]

Clinton Presidential Materials Project - National Archives working project on the Clinton Presidency.

Commission On Presidential Debates - Maintained by the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates, this site can claim to be the official website of presidential debates. Its primary focus, is on 1996 presidential debates.[Reviewed]

Congress.org - Directories are among the best types of sources for the World Wide Web. This site, maintained by a Washington, DC-based public affairs organization and a publisher of congressional directories, provides a simple but quite useful membership directory for both houses of Congress.[Reviewed]

CongressLink - This site offers students and teachers "one-stop shopping" for basic information on Congress. The site is sprinkled with numerous direct links to related Internet pages. [Reviewed]

Crossfire - James Carville and Paul Begala battle Robert Novak and Tucker Carlson in a live studio audience setting with major political guests.

C-SPAN - A public affairs service of America's cable television companies

2004 Vote

Campaign 2000 - The primary orientation of this website is towards providing users with a chance to download past C-SPAN programs, both about campaigns and other political topics.[Reviewed]

Campaign 2002

Ethnic Studies At USC - This website provides electronic bibliographies that help students find print materials and relevant databases in the USC library system. The majority of the bibliographies list African American materials on artists, photography, writers, literature, poetry, politics, the Harlem Renaissance and religion.[Reviewed]

Face the Nation - A CBS public affairs news program hosted by veteran reporter Bob Schieffer.

Federal Election Commission - Students who seek to track the flow of "hard money" into American electoral politics will find much help on this site. This site is updated regularly and appropriate for all levels.[Reviewed]

Freedom Channel - This is an innovative, nonpartisan site that makes video-on-demand available to students of American politics. The site offers video views of candidates for US House, US Senate, and governor. It also includes brief video presentations by issue groups. An email alert service is available to notify users of new videos in their areas of interest.[Reviewed]

Freedom Forum - This brings together resources such as the Media Studies Center in New York, the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, and other reputable and well-respected international sources. [Reviewed]

Gay And Lesbian Politics - The content of the Web page takes a nonpolitical approach and provides resources from antigay sources as well as those with progay affiliations. This site has yielded one of the most comprehensive and authoritative guides to American gay/lesbian politics.[Reviewed]

Gender Issues in Political Science - Drexel Library's suggested web links to sites primarily concerned with women's studies, women's issues, or gender issues in Political Science.

Hill News - A non-partisan weekly newspaper covering the Congress.

Human & Constitutional Rights - This website offers links to electronic resources on both constitutional and international human rights law.[Reviewed]

Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Research

The Jefferson Project - This site continues to provide information and links to a broad spectrum of political thought and activity. Another interesting observation is that this site, listed as .org, has more advertising than the National Political Index, a .com site.[Reviewed]

JURIST: The Legal Education Network

Kennedy School Online Political Information Network - This website consists of links to other sites that pertain to federal and local government, parties and candidates, international affairs, think tanks, media, elections, etc.[Reviewed]

Law Librarians' Society of Washington. D.C.. Inc.

LLSDC's Legislative Source Book - This offers a fine web guide to sources of governmental legislative and legal information. No other site offers as good a guide to terminology and resources as LLSDC; recommended for use by law, academic, and public libraries.[Reviewed]

Meet The Press - Leading political news program hosted by Tim Russert, Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News.

National Archives And Records Administration - This preserves documents relevant to US history and oversees the management of all federal records. A few sections included are "Recently Added Data section","Events","The Genealogy Page","Historical Records of Government Agencies","Publications",and much more.[Reviewed]

National Issues.com

National Journal

National Political Index - This website is organized as an index rather than as a site with substantial independent content. Subdivided into 32 separate areas,e.g., "Hourly Political Headlines", "Federal Elected Officials", etc the site is intended to provide "a one stop shop for political information".[Reviewed]

The National Security Archive - The Archive's primary mission since its inception in 1985 has been to serve as a clearing house of declassified US documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. In addition, the library and archive is a research institute on international affairs, and an indexer and publisher of FOIA documents and related materials in book, microfiche, and electronic formats.[Reviewed]

The Odum Institute's Data Archive - This website serves as the exclusive repository for the Louis Harris polls from 1958 to the present. It also houses the Roper Center's International Survey Library Association and much more.[Reviewed]

Opensecrets.org: Formerly Titled Center For Responsive Politics -This site is a virtual gold mine for scholars studying the influence of money in contemporary congressional politics. The CRP's purpose is to "study Congress and particularly the role that money plays in its elections and actions".[Reviewed]

Politics.com

Political Information.com - This website strives to be a targeted free service guiding users to more than 4000 carefully chosen political and public policy websites. It is also useful to political junkies and students especially to those confronting a specific policy realm for the first time. Highly recommended at all levels.[Reviewed]

Politics1 - This is a useful site for students seeking access to resources on parties, candidates, ideological positions, issues, and general political news.[Reviewed]

PollingReport.com - alike easy access to a timely, high quality cross-section of poll data on topics of national political,economic, and sociocultural interest. [Reviewed]

President - This site's mission is to bring "presidential libraries materials onto the Internet for improved public access. Links are provided to archival materials for the last 12 presidents. Highly recommended for presidential research material dating back to Hoover.[Reviewed]

Project Vote Smart - PVS is the only source providing information not readily available elsewhere on all state legislative races. Anyone seeking information on candidates or campaigns will find this a valuable resource.[Reviewed]
Public Affairs Web - This site purports to be a "first stop solution to finding information on issues and organizations concerning local,state and national governments".[Reviewed]

Public Agenda Online - Since 1975, Public Agenda, founded by social scientist Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, has worked to "help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues" and to "help citizens better understand critical policy issues". Its website expands the outreach of this opinion.[Reviewed]

Research Resources In Political Science - This site is University of Michigan's Documents Center website which serves as a political science gateway.[Reviewed]

Roll Call Online - This site is more specialized and focused on Congress than are similar cites. A few minor errors were found:e.g.,the "election map" was not a map at all,but perhaps it will be in the heart of election season.[Reviewed]

Roper Center - This is a unique resource providing access to more than 10,000 survey files in addition to the Japanese and Latin American Data Banks.[Reviewed]

Selected CRS Reports on Congress and its Procedures - Links from the Law Librarians Society. The site also provides access to other CRS Reports available on the Web.

This Week with George Stephanopoulos - ABC News political program.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - This site directed by David Weissbrodt and Marci Hoffman, has rapidly proven itself the outstanding electronic data source in this field. Any student of human rights, irrespective of level of expertise, will find this website the finest available.

 

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