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Guides
Political
Science: Chiefly an extensive selection of networked information
sources provided by the University of Chicago Library to its users.
Selected Internet Resources for
Political Scientists section lists guides to free services and
resources on the web.
Political
Science Resources/Foreign Politics (University of Michigan
Documents Center): Annotated listing of sites in various
categories--comprehensive political sources, country politics,
elections, military affairs, and women in politics.
Political Science
Resources/United States Politics (University of Michigan Documents
Center): Comprehensive, annotated listing of political sites grouped
by topics such as campaign finances, elections,
minority politicians, political advertising, primaries, and
statistics.
Political
Resources on the Net: Parties, organizations, governments, media
and more from around the world.
Election Boards
(candidates, registering to vote, public information)
ChicagoElections.com
Illinois State
Board of Elections
Elections & Voting
CQ Voting and
Elections Collection: Restricted to University of Chicago
computing accounts. Contains electoral statistics for
Presidential, US House, and Gubernatorial elections, 1824+; Senate
elections, 1908+; Presidential primary elections, 1912+; Senatorial
primary elections, 1920+; House primary elections, 1968+; and
Gubernatorial primary elections, 1919+. Data can be downloaded. In
addition, site provides election analyses, case summaries,
legislation, explanations, biographies, profiles, and more.
Elections in Western Europe
Since 1820: Available at workstation in the second-floor
reading room. Provides constituency-level statistics.
Campaigns&Elections:
Profiles, floor speeches, bill introductions and committe votes of
members of Congress.
Center for Voting
and Democracy: Non-partisan, non-profit organization that supports
fair elections and studies how voting systems affect participation,
representation and governance.
Federal Election Commission:
Along with extensive campaign data incluces publications such as the
Citizens'
Guide.
IFES (International Foundation
for Election Systems): Provides technical assistance in election
administration and management in order to encourage national and
international democracy.
Project Vote Smart:
Biographies, finances, issue positions, interest group evaluations,
and voting records of over 13,000 political leaders.
The Record of American
Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD): Data include election returns,
socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American
public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation.
United States Election Assistance
Commission: Election resources include Voter
Registration and Turnout Statistics.
U.S. Electoral
College: The National Archives provides information on the
Electoral College, including Historical
Election Results from 1789 on. |
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News
CQ
Weekly: Restricted to University of Chicago
computing accounts. Legislative news and analysis. Retrieve
detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983.
Keesing's Record
of World Events: Restricted to University of Chicago
computing accounts. Particularly useful for foreign political and
economic reports; provides full-text international news reports from
1960 forward
National
Journal: Restricted to University of Chicago
computing accounts. Features in-depth coverage of federal
government policy-making. See Political Reporters for search tips
and a description of additional features and publications in National
Journal Group's Policy Central.
AllPolitics.com:
Political news, produced in partnership with CNN/Time.
Political Parties
Democratic National Committee
Republican National Committee
Other
parties are included on the Political Resources on the Net
U.S.A. pages.
Speeches & Debates
Commission on Presidential
Debates: Includes debate history, some transcripts, and
information about availability of debate videos and transcripts from
C-Span and Vanderbilt TV
News Archives.
Douglass Archives of
American Public Address: Archive of American oratory and related
documents.
History and Politics Out
Loud: Searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering
authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics.
History
Channel: Speeches: Search or browse collection of speeches in
politics & government or war & diplomacy. |
