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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.
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