Political Science Links

American Foreign Policy

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
• CIA FOIA: Electronic Reading Room
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Prior to 1898
• International Politics and Foreign Policy
• National Committee on American Foreign Policy
• U.S. Department of State
• Vinnie's Home Page: Vincent Ferraro, Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
• WWW Virtual Library: Interantional Affairs Resources: American Foreign Policy

American Presidency

• The American Presidency Project
• AmericanPresident.org
• American Presidents: Life Portraits
• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century

Constitutional Law

• Constitution Society
• First Amendment Center
• The History of the Supreme Court
• Legal Threats Database
• Oyez.org: Information about the United States Supreme Court, including pending and past cases
• United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions
• US Constitution

Contemporary International Issues

General Information

• CIA World FactBook
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• VOANews

Middle East

• Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
• Middle East, 1916 - 2001: a documentary record
• Middle East Network Information Center

Terrorism

• Country Reports on Terrorism
• RAND Voices of Jihad Database
• The Terrorism Research Center
• War on Terrorism

Campaign Advertising

• The Living Room Candidate

Campaign Finance

• OpenSecrets.org
• Political MoneyLine

Elections

General Information

• ANES: American National Election Studies
• Election Resources on the internet

State

• Federal and State Election Resources
• Secretary of State Offices

United States

• 270toWin: Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
• U.S. Elections
• Federal Elections Commission
• U.S. Elections

Environmental Law & Politics

• Center for International Environmental Law
• Environmental Law Net
• FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Environmental Law

Government

Local

• Buckhannon Upshur Chamber of Commerce
• City of Buckhannon
• Local Government Politics
• Upshur County Schools Online

State

• National Conference of State Legislatures: Grass Catcher: A Daily Roundup of Policy News Clippings
• State Agency Database
• State and Local Government Overviews
• State Government and Politics
• Stateline.org
• State of West Virginia Official Page

United States

• Dirksen Congressional Center
• USA.gov
• ThisNation.Com
• Thomas: U.S. Congress on the Internet
• The U.S. Congress votes database

Human Rights

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Rights Watch
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN)

International Law

• Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World
• International Law

Political Parties

• Republican National Committee
• Democratic National Committee
• Green Party of the United States
• Libertarian Party

Political Science - General Resources

• Almanac of Policy Issues
• Capital Eye
• FactCheck.org: Annenberg political fact check
• Metavid
• Online Library of Liberty
• Political Science Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
• Poly-Cy: Internet Resources for Political Science (WVU)
• Social Sciences Information Gateway: Politics
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Political Science
• Virtual Reference Desk (Library of Congress)

Political Science Theory

• Political Science Resources: Political Theory

Politics

African

• African Political Resources
• African Politics and Government on the Internet

United States

• Political Science Resources: United States Politics

International Politics

• Constitution Finder
• Cuban Internet Resources

West Virginia

• Politics1: Online Guide to West Virginia Politics
• West Virginia Political News: U.S. Politics Today

United Nations

• Welcome to the United Nations
• General Assembly
• Security Council

Women in Politics

• Center for American Women in Politics
• National Women's Law Center
• Social Science Information Gateway: Women in Politics
• West Virginia Women's Commission
• Women in Congress
• Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database

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