Political Science

This is the U.S. Government's official web search engine.

Allows users to search many different human rights sites simultaneously. Includes a wide variety of human rights organizations, United Nations bodies, intergovernmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and governments.

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A good guide to many California political sites.

Provides information on elections, voting, ballot initiatives, statistics, campaign finance, and lobbyists.

Useful for understanding US Supreme Court decisions related to core constitutional issues.

Another online version of the Constitution, provided by the U.S. Senate.

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This US Supreme Court database includes briefs on constitutional cases, biographies, portraits of all justices who have served on the Supreme Court, and links to written opinions.

Maintained by Cornell. Brings together Supreme Court information collected by the Legal Information Institute and Project Hermes. An excellent source for information on the Supreme Court.

Major reference source for the federal courts, including biographical information on federal judges, legislative histories of the courts, and selected topics in judicial history.

Guide to United States case law, law codes, law review articles, and other law materials.

Official page of the Judicial Council of California. Recommended for keeping abreast of the latest developments in California law.

Official public page for Congressional information.

Guide to members of Congress throughout history.

This weekly newspaper covers Congress and also provides news coverage and a very useful congressional directory.

C-SPAN [Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network] is a public service created by the American television industry to cover proceedings of the United States House of Representatives and Senate.

The PPIC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to independent, nonpartisan research on economic, social, and political issues in California.

This site posts online reports and public opinion data on public policy issues.

A daily "snapshot" of California public policy and politics.

Provides resources on campaign finance reform and the structure of the US election system, including the electoral college.

Features information on each presidential candidate's assets, and campaign funding sources.

A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. The site features reports on campaign donors and charts on campaign expenditures.

The website of the Center for Responsive Politics. Provides information on the amount and source of funds on campaign finance and related topics.

Provides vote totals for every congressional candidate in elections from 1920 to the present.

Provides information on both the popular vote by state and the number of electoral votes each presidential candidate received.

Provides the public with comprehensive access to information about upcoming elections. Includes an Internet Guide to California's Legislature.

This nonpartisan organization provides the public with information about the poltical system, issues, elected officials, and candidates from both state and national elections.

This interactive website is designed to improve the quality and quantity of voter information.

Another excellent guide provided by the League of Women Voters. This site is designed to be easy to use and provides voters with comprehensive nonpartisan information about contests on their ballot.

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Provides information on the society and culture of most countries.

This annual publication is provided by the Central Intelligence Agency. An excellent source for quick country information.

Contains geographical, economic, demographic and social statistics for all United Nations members.

Sponsored by the International Crisis Group, this site provides analytical information about trouble spots in the world.

Operated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, this site is a very comprehensive information source for refugees' issues around the world.

This site is a comprehensive source for documents related to human rights and links to other human rights sites.

Nongovernmental organization devoted to human rights. Annual reports cover most countries in the world. Also includes links to other human rights organizations.

Online archive of previously secret documents that are frequently requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data.