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Political Science: Recommended Websites

  • Getting Started
  • Recommended Websites
  • New Books & DVDs
  • State and Local Government
  • U.S. Government
  • U.S. Politics - General
  • U.S. Politics - Elections & Voting
  • International Politics
  • Public Administration
  • Legal Studies
  • Mass.gov
    Official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • Massachusetts Cities and Towns
    Links to city and town websites and municipal services.
  • National Conference of State Legislature - Ballot Measures Database
    All statewide ballot measures, starting over a century ago.
  • Town of Bridgewater
    Official website of the town of Bridgewater.
  • The Council of State Governments - Book of the States Archive
  • The American Presidency Project
    Leading source of presidential documents on the internet. Currently contains more than 126,000 documents, including inaugural addresses, press briefing, proclamations, election documents, and more.
  • American Presidents : Life Portraits
    Companion site to the Peabody Award‑winning series profiling the men who have served as chief executive of the United States.
  • Congress.gov
    Official website of the legislative branch of the United States government.
  • Congressional Record
    Proceedings and debates of the U.S. Congress.
  • Federal Depository Libraries
    Federal Government Publication Depository Libraries in Massachusetts. By law, publications in these collections must be accessible to the general public.
  • Oyez
    Multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. A complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.
  • Presidential Libraries and Museums
    Includes directory of presidential libraries and museums, as well as presidential documents and online exhibits.
  • SCOTUS Blog
    Current Supreme Court information, including current cases and recent decisions.
  • Supreme Court of the United States.
    Official website of the judicial branch of the U.S. government.
  • United States Government Publishing Office
    The Federal Government's official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. government.
  • United States House of Representative
    Information on current and past representatives, legislation, and committees.
  • U.S. Senate
    Information on current and past U.S. senators, legislation, and committees.
  • The White House
    Official website of the executive branch of the United States government.
  • United States Census Bureau. Explore Census Data.
    Find popular facts (population, income, etc.) and frequently requested data about your community.
  • American Political Science Association - Videos
    Presentations and lectures, annual meetings, interviews, webinars, and more.
  • FactCheck.org
    Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
  • Foreign Policy Research Institute
    Non-partisan organization devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests.
  • Gallup Poll
    Recent polling data relating to national and international topics.
  • Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy
    Publications, datasets, reports, and global indicators.
  • Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Images of posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later.
  • TED Talks - Politics
    A collection of TED Talks on the topic of politics.
  • American National Election Studies
    Produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
  • Counting the Votes
    Detailed statistics for all 57 presidential elections between 1789 and 2012.
  • Federal Election Commission
    Includes campaign finance data, help for candidates and committees, and legal resources.
  • Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2016
    More than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952. (Requires Flash and Javascript to be enabled.)
  • A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825
    Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.
  • Project Vote Smart
    Biographies, votes, positions, speeches, and funding of United States politicians.
  • Avalon Project
    Key documents in law, history, and diplomacy, from 4000 BCE to the present.
  • Eurobarometer Public Opinion
    Surveys on European public opinion since 1974. Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per country. Reports are published twice yearly.
  • Europa
    Official website of the European Union. Includes official documents, reports, studies, statistics, and open data.
  • Human Rights Watch - World Report 2017
    Annual review of human rights around the globe. Browsable by country.
  • Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
    The major objectives of the ICD are to extend current research, programs and practices in the field of cultural diplomacy and create a platform to promote and sustain inter-cultural dialogue at all levels.
  • Latin American Network Information Center - Government & Law Resources
    Information on governments, human rights, law and justice ,political parties, and political science in Latin American countries.
  • Pew Research Center: Global Attitudes and Trends
    Publications, datasets, reports, and global indicators.
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
    Independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.
  • United Nations
    Includes key documents, news and media, information on issues and campaigns, and more.
  • Public Management Research Association
    Nonprofit academic membership association that furthers research on public organizations.
  • TED Talks - Public Spaces
    A collection of TED Talks on the topic of public spaces.
  • United Nations Public Administration Network
    Global network that connects relevant international, regional, subregional, and national institutions worldwide for the promotion of better public administration.
  • Urban Institute
    Gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues.
  • Justia - U.S. Case Law
    Digitized decisions and opinions from federal and state courts, from 18th century to present day.
  • Law Library of Congress - Research and Reports
    Includes legal reports, digitized material, legal research guides, and more.
  • Legal Information Institute
    Freely accessible law-related materials, including primary materials such as state statutes, federal rules, Supreme Court decisions, legal citation guides, and more.
  • TED Talks - Law
    A collection of TED Talks on the topic of law.
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