World-Wide Web Resources
Politics/Political Science

General Resources

  • Electronic Political Sciences Resources available through the University of Kentucky Libraries' subscriptions.

  • ABSEES Online, the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Searchable by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Almanac of Politics and Government, annual compilation of information on United States and world governments and politics.

  • All Politics, current political resources from CNN and Time.

  • All Things Political, Guide to Political Internet Resources, from Informatics Resources.

  • American Political Science Association

  • Annual Review of Political Science, from Annual Reviews. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Beaucoup! Guide to Searchable Databases of political science resources.

  • Brookings Institution

  • Canadian Political Science Association

  • The Carter Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982. Dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization.

  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), coverage from 1991. includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Access via the category home pages (see below), through alphabetical indices (author, subject, title, and institution); and by searching. Materials are divided into the following categories:
  • working papers
  • journal abstracts (with selected full-text)
  • books
  • policy briefs
  • case studies
  • course packs
  • Scholarly Events in Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  • maps and country data (from the CIA World Factbook)
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  • Constitution Finder, offering constitutions, constitution drafts, and other documents related to national and state constitutions and constitutionalism. Nations and states are listed alphabetically, and each nation's or state's name is linked to its constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.

  • Constitutions, Treaties and Declarations, consists of the texts of important treaties and of country's constitutional documents. Included are: ---Charters and similar documents of international governmental organizations (such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States) ---Conventions on human rights ---Conventions on warfare and arms limitation ---Treaties and conventions on trade and commerce ---Index of international trade conventions --- UN Convention on the Law of the Sea ---European Union documents ---Constitutions of the countries of the world.

  • Daily Washington File, from the U.S. Information Agency. International data relative to politics, economics, diplomacy and human rights; with news broken down by those items issued within the past 48 hours, organized by topic and region (with a continuous 14 day supply of back issues). Several years of Washington File materials are also available through a searchable database. Materials in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.

  • Elections and Electoral Systems by Country, pointers to world-wide election news, maintained as part of the Political Science Resources page at the University of Keele in the United Kingdom.

  • Election Notes, daily international news of elections, including calendars and returns.

  • The Electronic Policy Network, covering national policy and politics.

  • Foreign Commentary on the US, Daily Digest of foreign media reaction, prepared Monday through Friday by the United States Information Agency.

  • Foundations of Political Theory, Organized Section of the American Political Science Association exists to advance the linkage of political theory and philosophy with political science as a discipline.

  • General News Sources, from Indiana University Libraries Research Collections.

  • Government, Politics, & Law Index, from the Michigan Electronic Library.

  • Government/Politics Resources, part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers from Dennis Boals.

  • HAPI Online, Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Searchable resource containing bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users.

  • Harden Political InfoSystems, "providing an Internet infrastructure for organizing and relating local, state and federal political information."

  • Heritage Foundation, conservative think tank. Includes "Congressional District Ranking Book" with rankings based on census figures for vital statistics, education, housing, and employment; an "Index for Economic Freedom" for over 100 countries; and links to conservative public policy organizations.

  • H-Net Book Review Project, collection of online academic book reviews, put together by the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Project at Michigan State University. The site contains over 600 scholarly reviews (as of June 30, 1997) on a wide variety of subjects, searchable and sortable in any number of ways, from author and title to ISBN and LC number. Most of the reviews are of books published in the last 3-4 years, and some of them have replies and commentaries by authors appended.

  • Human Rights Meta Search Engine, from the University of Minnesota.

  • International Government Official Address Directory

  • Jane's, information on defense, weaponry, civil aviation and transportation. Features an Interview of the week, Free Screen Saver, Jane's World Report, Photo of the week, Combat Simulations, Glossary , FAQs and Professional Opportunities in Defense & Aerospace.

  • Jefferson Project, political resources archive.

  • John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

  • KSGOPIN, Kennedy School of Government Online Political Information Network.

  • Latin American Studies Association

  • Laws of Other Nations (from U.S. House of Representatives). Provides information about the laws of various countries of the world. You may find the country's constitution, a few statutes from the country, a few treaties, articles on the legal system of the country, and information on legal practices in the country.

  • Lijphart Elections Archive, hosted and maintained by the University of California, San Diego Social Sciences & Humanities Library. District- and national-level voting data and electoral information for legislative elections in over 60 countries.

  • NAFTA Secretariat

  • National Political Index

  • Official City Sites, an international resource.

  • Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry, from York University, Toronto.

  • Political Action Resources, lists U.S. government offices, Congress members, political action groups, and information Webs.

  • Political and Government Resources, from Galaxy.

  • Political Database of the Americas, from the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies/The Organization of American States.

  • Political Methodology Working Papers, from the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association. This site is maintained at UC Riverside.

  • Political Resources on the Net, lists political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, and Media from all around the world.

  • Political Science and Public Policy Resources, from Michigan State University.

  • Political Science Resources, from the University of Keele in the United Kingdom.

  • Political Science Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library.

  • Political Science Resources on the Internet, from LSU's Political Science Department.

  • Political Science Resources on the Web, from the University of Michigan.

  • Politics1, "resource of comprehensive links to all the Presidential, Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate & Congressional candidates and political parties, including links to third party and third party candidate's Web sites.

  • PollingReport.com, a bimonthly public opinion monitor, featuring a frequently updated polling results and data.

  • PRAXIS, Resources for Social and Economic Development. From the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Primary Sources in U.S. History (available on-campus and via the proxy server). (Note: to view the .pdf documents in this resource, you will need to click on the link to the document, then hit the RELOAD button of your browser.) Searchable access to microform collection guides. Indexed collections include
  • Documents of the National Security Council
  • Letters Received by the Attorney General, 1809-1870, Western Law and Order
  • Map Room Files of President Roosevelt, 1939-1945
  • Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council
  • Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor
  • National Security Files
  • Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
  • Papers of George C. Marshall, Selected World War II Correspondence
  • Papers of the NAACP
  • Political Activities of the Johnson White House
  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Office Files, 1953-1961
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files, 1933-1945
  • President Harry S Truman's Office Files, 1945-1953
  • President John F. Kennedy's Office Files, 1961-1963
  • War in Vietnam: Papers of William C. Westmoreland
  • War on Poverty, 1964-1968

  • Public Opinion Poll Question Database, constructed by the Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Allows keyword searches on questions derived from a collection of public opinion polls, dating from the 1960s to the present. Query results display the full text of the poll questions, information about the studies, and, in many searches, frequency distributions. Users also have the option to view the full catalog record and download data from selected studies from the data archive.

  • U.S. Presidents Lists, includes all the presidents, vice presidents, their term in office and cabinets and sorts them into lists such as: party, electoral and popular vote, date of birth, college, religion, number of children, who were related, and who died in office. Also links to the White House Presidential biographical pages.

  • PROceedings:Political Research Online. offers selected papers from the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

  • Public Affairs Web, resource for locating public affairs and political action information from around the US. Coverage is broken down nationally, by state, and locally.

  • RAND, nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis.

  • Research Funding Resources

  • Social Sciences Information Gateway

  • Think Tanks, from Superzone.

  • Turn Left, a Guide to Liberal Resources on the Web.

  • World Fact Book, from the CIA.
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    Data Resources

  • Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts, US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics database that include selected data through 1996. Lotus spreadsheets (.wk1) are available in 55 subjects covering crimes and arrests, criminal justice, and general demography. The data is "aggregated...from a wide variety of published sources" and presented in this format to facilitate further analysis. Data is available at the national, state, county, and city level. Currency varies by file.

  • Data on the Net, from the University of California at San Diego. Contains a searchable and browsable database of over 750 "Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses." Sites are categorized into data sites, catalogs of data, data archives and vendors of data.

  • The Gallup Organization

  • Guide to Statistics Resources on the Web, from the University of Michigan.

  • ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

  • IPUMS, from the University of Minnesota. Provides on-line access to the public-access population database. Composed of national samples of thirteen U.S. censuses from 1850 through 1990. Quantitative source for the study of long-run social and economic change.

  • National Election Studies, with data on voting, public opinion, and political participation (from the Center for Political Studies at The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research).

  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web. Created by International Commerce & Statistics Librarian Rainer Wolcke at the University of Aukland Library. Access to social, economic and general data from official sources. Lists international statistical centers by country or topic with detailed navigation and downloading instructions.

  • Polling the Nations, fulltext collection of questions and responses from over 15,000 surveys worldwide. Available on-campus as well as off-campus to UK-affiliates via the proxy.

  • Population Index, from Princeton University's Office of Population Research.

  • Statistics Canada

  • Zogby International, public opinion data for North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

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    Electronic Journals and News Sources

  • C-SPAN

  • Economic Reform Today, quarterly published journal on market-based economic reform and democratization.

  • El Financiero International, financial news source from Mexico published in English and updated weekly. Includes searchable archives and economic articles on such topics as NAFTA, inflation, new trade laws and detailed company analyses.

  • Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. Includes highlights of the current issue (summaries, excerpts and one full-text article), searchable archives, guide to International Affairs, and links to related WWW sites.

  • Political Science Quarterly: The Journal of Public and International Affairs.

  • Postmodern Culture, published by North Carolina State University, Oxford University Press, and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

  • Reason Magazine, monthly magazine of "free minds and free markets" which covers politics and culture.

  • Roll Call Online, news and information about Congress.

  • Tower Magazine & Foreign Wire, London. Foreign affairs magazine with links to foreign affairs resources on the Internet.

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    American Politics and Government

  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents & Debates 1774-1873. From the Library of Congress' American Memory Project.

  • Congressional Biographical Directory, from 1774 to the present.

  • Congressional Record Filter, resource for people following US legislative action on particular topics. Information filter for the US Congressional Record text and extends the resources of the Library of Congress' THOMAS search system. CRFilter creates a personalized search page for THOMAS, so that users can periodically check to see the latest developments in their areas of interest as well as search the CR back to 1989. Free service and should be of particular interest to people who regularly search with THOMAS, such as legislative assistants, librarians, journalists, lobbyists, researchers, and students. Part of a doctoral dissertation on the adoption of filtering technology being run by Steve Gant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Users are required to fill out a 40 question survey and agree to have the frequency (but not content) of their use of the filter measured.

  • C-SPAN's Congressional Glossary

  • Elliot's Debates: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.

  • The Federal Impeachment Process: A Bibliographic Guide to English and American Precedence, Historical and Procedural Development, and Scholarly Commentary. Published by the Cornell Law Library.

  • Fedstats, browse the latest public statistics from over 70 agencies of the United States Federal Government.

  • Large-City Crime Rates, contains crime rates for 220 U.S. cities with a population of more than 100,000. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

  • The Office of the Clerk On-line Information Center, contains House of Representatives information, including copies of bills and other House documents, the Clerk's publications, and historical information about the House.

  • Political Advocacy Groups, from Creighton University.

  • Political Cartoons and Cartoonists, collection of texts and images detailing the history of political cartooning in America.

  • Politics Research Group Working Papers, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Abstracts and fulltext are both available.

  • U.S. Government Documents - Legislative Branch, selective guide to resources - both at Columbia University Libraries and on the Internet - designed to aid those conducting research on the U.S. legislative branch and Congress. Includes periodicals, Congressional Voting Records, Current Events & Legislation, Print Documents, and Key Congressional Reports.

  • Voting Records of Members of Congress, from the Library of Congress.

    • Elections

  • Congressional Quarterly's Campaigns & Elections

  • Election Statistics "Since 1920, the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories. These documents, out of print for many years, have been collected and scanned in a format to make them once again available to researchers and students." Older publications in Adobe Acrobat format.

  • Election 2000, from CNN / AllPolitics.

  • Elections 2000, from the University of Michigan Library. Includes links to Presidential candidates, historical election statistics, public opinion polls, policy issues, news items, and more.

  • Elections U.S.A., database of all presidential elections since 1948 plus gubernatorial and U.S. Senate election results in all 50 states.

  • 1992-1997 National Election Studies Combined File, from The National Election Studies. Data file combining all of the variables for six election studies conducted between 1992 and 1997.

  • Presidential Elections in Maps: 1948-1992. From the University of Virginia Library Geographic Information Center. Compilation of original map graphics reflecting the Popular Vote outcomes in U.S. presidential contests from 1948 to 1992.

  • U.S. Election Map Bank: results of presidential elections by county and by state, from 1960 to 1992. Produced by World Media Live.

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    Political Campaign Financing

  • Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 1997 (S. 25). FTP site.

  • Campaign Finance Reform, from the Brookings Institution.

  • Campaign Finance Reform, from the Electronic Policy Network Briefing Book.

  • Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org): Money in Politics Data

  • Common Cause

  • Council of European Social Science Data Archives, facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel, Australia, the US, and Europe.

  • Congressional Candidate Profiles: 1998 elections. Provides fund-raising sources.

  • Democratic National Committee

  • Federal Election Commission (FEC)

  • Follow the Money, from PBS.

  • U.S. Federal Election Commission Information About Candidates, Parties and Other Committees, including Finance Information.

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    Political Parties and Activities

  • California Democratic Party

  • Communist Party USA

  • Democratic Party Online

  • Democratic Socialists of America

  • Green Parties of North America

  • National Minority Politics

  • National Politics and Personalities, with links to parties, political organizations, specific candidates, and poll data.

  • Natural Law Party of the U.S.

  • Political Parties, annotated list of U.S. political parties with links. From Project Vote Smart.

  • Reform Party

  • Republican State Parties, index of state Republican parties, down to the county level.

  • Republican National Committee

  • Socialist Party USA

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    State and Local Politics and Government

  • Council of State Governments

  • County and City Data Books for 1988 and 1994. From the University of Virginia Social Science Data Center. Searchable, it contains demographic, economic, and governmental variables from both federal government and private agency sources, presented for the purpose of multi-area comparisons or single area profiles. Users can choose areas and variables, and there is an option under county and city data to pick all the counties or cities of a particular state. Output can be sorted in three ways, and can be displayed to the browser or saved in an ftp file as either browser output, or comma delimited output for later importing into statistical applications.

  • ElectNet, the state election watch. Covers local elections and politics and follows the candidates, organizations, links, and political resources state by state.

  • Fayette County, Kentucky Political Districts, includes searchable listing of representatives in Kentucky & local government by district. For Fayette county, there is a searchable index based on street names.

  • Kentucky State Government Sites

  • The Local Government Home Page, collaborative effort of four non-profit organizations that serve local governments: International Cities/Counties Management Association, National League of Cities, National Association of Counties, and Public Technology, Inc.

  • Mayors at a Glance, search for a mayor by name, city, state or by city population. Returns your query with a photo, e-mail address, phone number, fax, election date, and city Web site link.

  • The National Conference of State Legislatures, bipartisan organization dedicated to serving the lawmakers and staffs of the nation's 50 states, commonwealths, and territories. Features information on meetings and events of the NCSL, background information on the Foundation of State Legislatures, research and analysis of crucial state issues, coverage of state legislative races and other state elections, and links to Web sites.

  • Republican State Parties, index of state Republican parties, down to the county level.

  • Roll Call's Election Map, providing state election information.

  • State and Local Government on the Net, listing of pointers to state, county, and city government pages.

  • State Capitals Newsletters Alert, briefings on bills, legislation, budgets, laws, regulations, crime, civil rights, etc., covering the 50 states. Searchable state capitals archives (with over 8,000 articles yearly) and review of weekly highlights by subject and state.

  • Stateline.org, operated by the Pew Center on the States. Provides "a set of tools" that apprise state policy makers, the public, and the media of important developments occurring in all 50 states.

  • Vote Smart Web, access information through the Vote Smart database and web links.

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    Kentucky Senators and Representatives

  • Fayette County, Kentucky Political Districts, includes searchable listing of representatives in Kentucky & local government by district. For Fayette county, there is a searchable index based on street names.
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    International Sources of Information

    International Organizations

  • Canadian Institute of International Affairs

  • Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World

  • European Integration Online Papers, working paper archive of peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary working papers in the field of European integration research, including legal studies, political science, economics, and history.

  • European Union

  • G8 Information Centre, from the University of Toronto

  • Inter-American Development Bank

  • International Affairs Network, from the University of Pittsburgh. Annotated directory of international web sites.

  • International Government Official Address Directory

  • International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Includes the mandate and history of the ILO, provides full text of the ILO's core conventions, and outlines its analysis on various labour-related issues, such as labour standards, employment, working conditions, child labour and women at work.

  • International Monetary Fund

  • International Organizations, from the University of Kentucky.

  • International Relations and Security Network, developed and coordinated by the center for Security Studies and Conflict Research at the ETH Zurich.

  • The Latin American Development Archive, developed by the Program in Comparative International Development, Johns Hopkins University.

  • Latin American Government Documents Project, from Cornell University.

  • Lijphart Elections Archive, hosted and maintained by the University of California, San Diego Social Sciences & Humanities Library. District- and national-level voting data and electoral information for legislative elections in over 60 countries.

  • NATO

  • OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

  • OneWorld Organization, providing information on development, the environment and human rights on the Web. A partnership of many of the world's leading development agencies and charities.

  • Organization of American States

  • Peace and Security Resource Guide, index of Internet resources on armed forces, international relations, peace, disarmament, peacekeeping, contemporary conflicts, and military history. In English and French.

  • Radio Free Europe

  • RAND, nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis.

  • SCADplus Database, bibliographical database for the European Union containing references of more than 250,000 documents divided in 4 sectors. Sector A : Community legislation; Sector B : Official publications; Sector C : Articles from periodicals; Sector D : Opinions from the two sides of industry.

  • SIPRI, Stockholm's International Peace Research Institute.

  • STRATNET:Strategic Studies Network

  • The The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research

  • UNESCO Electronic Document Management System, offers the UNESDOC database (providing multilingual, full-text access to documents of major governing bodies, field mission reports, speeches of the Director-General, and the UNESCO Sources Bulletin; UNESDOC documents are presented as text or .pdf files, and are searchable by citation); and UNESBIB (which allows users to search a bibliography of UNESCO documents and publications, as well as the UNESCO library catalog).

  • United Nations (Web site)
  • United Nations (gopher site)

  • UN Watch, monitors the performance of the United Nations and its adherence to the UN Charter.

  • U.S. Agency for International Development

  • The World Bank

  • World Development Sources, houses a searchable database of development-related reports produced since 1988 by the World Bank, including Staff Appraisal Reports (SARs), World Bank President's Reports and Memoranda, Economic and Sector Work, Evaluation Reports and Studies, and Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Montreal Protocol Project documents. Also contains working papers and publications produced by the World Bank since 1993. Documents viewable online using the TMS Sequoia plug-in (available at the site for Windows and Macintosh).

  • World Liberalism

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    International Politics and Government

  • All About British Politics, UKOnline's guide to politics in the UK and the 1997 General Election. Features political news, party breakdown, 1996-97 Budget, pressure groups, and election related sites.

  • British Elections and Politics

  • British Labour Party

  • Canadian Government Information on the Internet

  • Canadian Politics on the Web
  • Canadian Statistics Web Page

  • Center for Post-Soviet Studies

  • Central & East European Legal/Political/Business & Economics Sites, research tool with a strong emphasis on government, academic, NGO, and news agency sources in English. Links that are not at least partially available in English are so noted. Spanning countries from Albania to the USSR, materials include legal associations, full-text legislation, and libraries.

  • Central Europe Online Navigator, resource on the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland. Publishes daily news, weekly industry reports, and travel information.

  • Daily Worldwide Election Notes, one-page brief on election news from around the world, posted daily by Klipsan Press, "publishers of reference works on electoral history and politics." Where possible, each news item on the page is accompanied by a link to a Web site with more complete coverage. Klipsan also maintains an archive of links to sites with election return figures.

  • Ex-USSR Nuclear Technologies and the World, integrates Internet information about former Soviet Nuclear technology into one comprehensive site. Includes declassified DOE links and information on over 60 countries and topics.

  • Eurasia Research Center, contains links to news and other resources on Post-Communist-Post Soviet Eurasia. Subpages deal with the Balkans, Western CIS Countries, Central Asia, the Middle East and South Asia. Includes news and information, human rights organizations and The Eurasia Research Center Document and Image Library.

  • European Political Parties

  • Foreign Government Resources, from the University of Texas.

  • Irish Labour Party

  • The Marx/Engels Internet Archive, originally hosted (and still mirrored) by Communications for a Sustainable Future at the University of Colorado, has become part of Cyber-Marx International. Contains selections from or the full text of over sixty works of Marx and Engels, and also works of other Marxist writers such as Daniel DeLeon, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao, and Trotsky.

  • Progress of Nations 1997, UNICEF's annual scorecard of the social health of nations.

  • Reform Party of Canada

  • Russian Constitution

  • Socialist Party of Canada

  • South African Constitution, adopted May 8, 1996.

  • Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland, the social democratic party of Germany. Dies ist die WWW-Site der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschland.

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  • World News Connection, foreign news articles collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Access restricted to UK users in Young Library. Ask at the Young Library Reference Commons Desk to be logged on. (Additional location and coverage information). For indexing from 1975-1996, use the Newsbank/Readex Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports Index; it is accessible via campus computers and also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

    Regional categories covered include:

  • Central Eurasia
  • East Asia
  • Near East & South Asia
  • China
  • East Europe
  • West Europe
  • Latin America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

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    Miscellaneous Resources

  • ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union. information about the full spectrum of civil liberties issues, including daily news clips, ACLU resources, organized links.

  • America Votes

  • American Conservative Union

  • Breckinridge (John B.), 1931-1979, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Budget and Appropriations Update, provides access to the budget resolution and reconciliation bills, all thirteen appropriations bills and related legislation. Includes current public and non-public information on budget and appropriations developments.

  • Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

  • Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, from the U.S. Department of Energy, Denver Regional Support Office. Provides information to communities on sustainable development techniques that enhance the local economy, the environment, and quality of life. Online resources include organization databases, success stories, model codes and ordinances, and publications.

  • Interactive Citizens Handbook, includes index to government information on the Web, a White House document search, history, tours, audio, and photos. From the White House web site.

  • Combs (Bert T.) Collections, 1959-1990, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • The Congressional Contact Database, including links to members of Congress, homepage and contact information.

  • Congressional Record Filter, resource for people following US legislative action on particular topics. Information filter for the US Congressional Record text and extends the resources of the Library of Congress' THOMAS search system. CRFilter creates a personalized search page for THOMAS, so that users can periodically check to see the latest developments in their areas of interest as well as search the CR back to 1989. Free service and should be of particular interest to people who regularly search with THOMAS, such as legislative assistants, librarians, journalists, lobbyists, researchers, and students. Part of a doctoral dissertation on the adoption of filtering technology being run by Steve Gant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Users are required to fill out a 40 question survey and agree to have the frequency (but not content) of their use of the filter measured.

  • Congressional Research Service WWW Accessible Reports

  • Conservative/Libertarian Political Page, with conservative/libertarian articles on health care, social security, taxes, welfare, government reform, liberty, political correctness, and conservative political links.

  • The Counter-Terrorism Page, Summary of World-Wide Terrorism Events, Groups, and Terrorist Strategies and Tactics.

  • Currents: news on population topics.

  • Daily Worldwide Election News, including daily election calendars, polls and returns spanning the globe.

  • Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute

  • DIANA, a joint project provided by an international consortium of libraries and human rights organizations. Dedicated to the construction of a comprehensive database of documents essential to human rights research. Segments of the database are hosted by four libraries. The Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto archives women's human rights resources. The Yale Law School Library contains legal briefs, organizational charters, treaty texts, and bibliographies related to human rights. The Robert S. Marx Law Library at the University of Cincinnati College of Law focuses on United Nations and Organization for African Unity materials. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is a collection of human rights documents and links.

  • Dummit, Eldon S. Papers, 1917-1972, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • ElectedNet!, form that can be used to send email to some or all U.S. Representatives.

  • Embassy Page, contains a comprehensive listing of embassies in the US and worldwide with a presence on the Web.

  • Forum on Economic Freedom,

  • Government and Democracy Online, CMC Magazine looks at theoretical and empirical implications of government and democracy in the online environment.

  • G7 Information Centre, from the University of Toronto.

  • Homelands, guide to secession and autonomy movements in America and around the world.

  • Idea Central, Civic Participation Page.

  • Indiana University's Department of Political Science.

  • Institute for Policy Innovation, conservative public policy think tank that takes providing content via HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions of its publications.

  • LA Times Politics, political coverage from the LA Times, including election and voting guides and links to ballot information.

  • Morton, Rogers C.B. (1914-1979) Collection, 1939-1976, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Morton, Thruston B., Collection, 1933-1969, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Political Inquiry Resource Guide, from Concordia University, Montreal.

  • ResPool Research Network, Political Consultants.

  • Statistical Resources on the Web, guide to United States, state, and international data. Categories include, agriculture, business and industry, cost of living, demographics, education, energy, health, housing, labor, science, and transportation.

  • Strategic Intelligence, from Loyola College (Baltimore) Department of Political Science. Pointers to U.S. intelligence community sites, military intelligence sites, organizational sites related to strategic intelligence, recent documents related to strategic intelligence, and a selected list of intelligence-related journals, articles, and papers.

  • 10% Tax Plan, from U.S. House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt. Proposal to overhaul U.S tax system, so that 75% of Americans would pay only 10% in taxes.

  • Transcripts of Past Presidential Debates, full-text transcripts of presidential debates from 1960, and 1976 to the present. Searchable.

  • U.S. House Democratic Leadership, from Congressman Richard Gephardt. Updated with press releases, information on 'Hot Topics,' and upcoming votes.

  • United Kingdom Economics and Politics Links

  • Urban Studies Institute at the University of Louisville, umbrella organization that houses the Survey Research Unit, Center for Policy Research and Evaluation, and the Center for Environmental Management.

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    University of Kentucky Resources

  • Department of Political Science
  • The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
  • Sustainable Urban Design, Advanced Seminar in Policy Studies. Political Science 776, University of Kentucky. Instructor: Ernest J. Yanarella.

  • World News Connection

    World News Connection (WNC) Foreign news articles collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) of the U.S. Government.

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  • Central Eurasia
  • East Asia
  • Near East & South Asia
  • China
  • East Europe
  • West Europe
  • Latin America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

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