General resources

• Lycos: Government: Politics

• Political Science Resources--Richard Kimber (UK)

• Political Science Resources on the Web--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan Documents Center

• Politics--Galaxy

• Statistical Resources on the Web: Political Science--Grace York, Univ. of Michigan Documents Center--comprehensive sources, campaign finance, elections, military, and public opinion

• Webcrawler Politics and Government

• World News Connection: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)--NTIS Fedworld--the latest two years of full text and summaries of foreign newspaper articles, speeches, TV & radio broadcasts, books, and reports translated into English (Vanderbilt IP addresses only)

• Yahoo! Government

• Yahoo! Politics

• Zarate's Datasets--Related Websites

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General U.S. politics resources

• All Things Political--Washington Weekly--Gingrich & Clinton speeches, political news groups, scandals

• AllPolitics--CNN/Time--news, issues, analysis

• American Government and Politics Materials--Louisiana State Univ.

• Directory of Political Debates and Issues--Politics1--links to organizations on the left and right and those concerned with major public policy issues ranging from abortion to women

• English Server: Government, Law and Society

• The Gallup Poll--recent opinion poll results

• GPO Access--U.S. Govt. Printing Office--search and retrieve full-text from more than 50 online databases. Includes a general search page for all GPO Access databases and specialized search pages for a detailed search of individual databases: Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Government Manual, Congressional Directory, Economic Report of the President, Congressional bills, Supreme Court decisions (1937-1975), GAO Reports, and other government information.

• LAWlink--ABA Legal Research Selected Starting Points--American Bar Assoc.--links to Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, state courts, & other legal links

• Lycos: U.S. Government

• National Political Index--information on & contacts for candidates, officials, groups, & agencies; plus many other political links

• News and opinion magazines--AJR NewsLink--American Journalism Review

• Northwestern's Political Science Research Resources--Northwestern Univ.

• Political and opinion magazines--AJR NewsLink--American Journalism Review

• Politics1--Presidential, Gubernatorial, US Senate & Congressional candidates and political parties, debates and issues

• Project Vote Smart--information on elections, candidates, Congress, federal and state governments, the issues, and politics

• Related Web Sites--Senate Republican Conference--government, news, television, radio, & Washington, DC, sites

• Roll Call--news and opinion about politics and campaigns

• Tap into the World of Policy Online--think-tank, advocacy, govt, industry, & business views

• Thomas (Library of Congress)--Congressional bills, laws, & reports; Congressional Record; C-SPAN; & House & Senate Web services

• Univ. of Michigan Documents Center Government Resources on the Web--Grace York

• Univ. of Michigan Documents Center Political Science Resources / United States Politics--

• Washington Post: On Politics--campaigns, special reports, government, polls, columns, and index

• Webcrawler: U.S. Federal Government

• Yahoo! U.S. Government

• Yahoo! U.S. Politics

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Branches of U.S. national government

Legislative branch

• Congress.org--Issue Dynamics Inc. (IDI) and Capitol Advantage (CA)--Congressional directory, find your member, communicate with Congress, House & Senate committees

• Congressional Budget Office--provides Congress with economic and budgetary information

• Congressional Directory [Online via GPO Access]--information on Senators and Representatives, Congressional committees, agencies

• Congressional E-mail Directory--Jeffrey Hoffman & WebslingerZ

• C-SPAN Online--information about C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 coverage of Congress and public affairs

• U.S. General Accounting Office--reports & testimony, decisions & opinions, and policy & publications

• General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports Online via GPO Access--GAO's findings and recommendations that result from its audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs; reports are prepared at the request of congressional committees or members or to fulfill GAO specifically mandated or basic legislative requirements; includes reports issued since from Oct. 1, 1994

• GPO Access--U.S. Govt. Printing Office (GPO)--Congressional Record, Congressional bills, & other government information

• U.S. House of Representatives--organization and operations; legislative process; member, committee, and leadership pages; schedules; directory; organization; and other resources

• The U.S. House Of Representatives Committee Office Web Services / Gopher Services--links to House Committee web sites

• Marvel, the Reference Web Server at the Library of Congress--links to a wide variety of sites

• The United States Senate--legislative activities, committees, Senators, about the Senate, history, other resources

• Senate Committees--for each committee includes jurisdiction, links to committee members, and subcommittees

• Tennessee's Delegation in Washington--links to available Tennessee Senators' and Representatives' web sites; provided by Sen. Fred Thompson

• Thomas (Library of Congress)--Congressional bills, laws, & reports; Congressional Record; C-SPAN; & House & Senate Web services

• Voter Information Services (VIS)--Ratings of the U.S. Congress by state and congressional district--Interest Group Ratings

• Yahoo! Government: Legislative Branch

  Executive branch

• White House Web Server--includes Interactive Citizens' Handbook to government; virtual library of documents, speeches, and press releases; briefing room of latest news and statistics; and links to White House Office and Agencies, Cabinet, and Federal Agencies & Commissions

• Economic Report of the President--U.S. Council of Economic Advisors--enter (with quotation marks) either "Economic Report of the President" or "table of contents" to see list of chapters

• Executive Branch--Yahoo!

• Federal Budget Publications [Online via GPO Access]--U. S. Office of Management & Budget--includes citizen's guide, supplements, analytical perspectives, historical tables, and appendix, as well as The Economic Report of the President

• [The Green Book: Overview of Entitlement Programs--] House Ways and Means Committee Prints [via GPO Access]--U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means--program descriptions and historical and current data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation; to search for documents in the Green Book, highlight the line for the latest Green Book and use "green book" (including quotation marks) as part of your search

• President's Cabinet--White House Web Server

• Reinventing Government Online--Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review

• Catalog for Government Manual--National Archives and Records Admin. (NARA)--GPO Gate, Univ. of Calif., San Diego--individual Portable Document Format (PDF) listed for each department and agency

• U.S. Government Manual Online via GPO Access--National Archives and Records Admin. (NARA)--official handbook of the federal government; provides comprehensive information on federal government agencies, for each of which it gives a list of principal officials, a statement of purpose and role in the government, a brief history, legislative or executive authority, and a description of its programs and activities

• White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)--current statistics about output; income; employment, unemployment, and earnings; production and business activity; prices; money, credit, and securities markets; transportation; and international statistics

• White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR)--current statistics on crime, demographics, education, and health

• White House Web Server--includes Interactive Citizens' Handbook to government; virtual library of documents, speeches, and press releases; briefing room of latest news and statistics; and links to White House Office and Agencies, Cabinet, and Federal Agencies & Commissions

  Judicial branch

• FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions Homepage, 1937-1975--FedWorld--
  National Technical Information Service (NTIS)--search by case name or by full-text keyword

• Justices of the U.S Supreme Court--Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School

• LII Hermes [Decisions of the U.S Supreme Court]--Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School--since 1990, with selected earlier cases, indexed by topic

• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 200-, 1906---Findlaw Internet Legal Resources--browsable by year andU.S. Reportsvolume number and searchable by citation, case title, and full text

• Judicial Branch--Yahoo!

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U.S. political parties

Democratic party

• Candidate official pages:
  • Bill Bradley
  • Al Gore

• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee--U.S. House of Representatives

• The Democratic Party Online--The Democratic National Committee

• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

• The President and the Vice President Home Page

• U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leadership

• United States Senate Democratic Leadership Committees

• The "Unofficial" Bill Clinton--Z Publishing--an irreverant guide

• Yahoo! Democratic Party [U.S.]

  Republican party sites

• Candidate official pages:
  • George W. Bush
  • Alan Keyes
  • John McCain

• Hillsource--House Republican Conference--hot topics, newsroom, floor info, mutlimedia archives, govt websites, under the dome, issue focus [no connection 6-13-00]

• Republican Home Page [no connection 6-13-00]

• Republican Links--Harris County (TX) Republican Party

• Republican Links--California Republican Assembly

• Republican Links--President Web Group

• The Republican National Committee (RNC)

• SRC: Senate Republican Conference

• U. S. House Republican Policy Committee

• U. S. Senate Republican Policy Committee

• Yahoo! Republican Party [U.S.]

  Other party and candidate sites

• Yahoo! Politics: Parties

• Communist Party U.S.A.

• Democratic Socialists of America--largest socialist organization in the U.S. & principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International

• Green Parties of North America ; Ralph Nader, Presidential candidate

• Libertarian Party--official website; Harry Browne, Presidential candidate

• Natural Law Party; John Hagelin, Presidential candidate

• Yahoo! Libertarian Party (U.S.)

• Reform Party--official WWW site--Ross Perot party; Pat Buchanan, one Reform Party Presidential candidate

• United We Stand America - The Grass Roots--Ross Perot issues and education organization

• Yahoo! Reform Party (U.S.)

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U.S. elections - general

• Election Statistics--Clerk of the House
  Official vote counts for 1920 to date for federal elections from the official sources of the states and territories.

• FECInfo--Tony Raymond
  Non-partisan federal candidate campaign money page, 1993-94 to date; political-action-committee and individual contributor by candidate: "who gave what to which Federal candidates when." Based on U.S. Federal Election Commission data.

• U.S. Federal Election Commission
  Campaign laws; financial information about candidates, parties, & political action committees. Also see 2000 Presidential Primary Dates and Candidate Filing Deadlines for Ballot Access and Federal Elections and Voting Statistics--official 1996 Presidential primary and general election results, voter registration and turnout.

• opensecrets.org--Center for Responsive Politics
  Online source for money in politics data. See also Election 2000 Congressional Races, arranged by zip code, state, and candidate.

• Politics.com
  Candidates, money, polls, calendar, other links

• Politics1--Ron Gunzburger
  Presidential, Congressional, and state races; political parties; issues and debates; calendar

• Project Vote Smart--Candidates & Elected Officials
  Biographies, campaign finances, issues positions, performance evaluations, and voting records for federal and state elections

• Roll Call Politics
  News scoops, politics, commentary, policy briefings

• Voting Assistance Guide--Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)--U.S. Dept. of Defense
  State-by-state information for citizens requesting registration and an absentee ballot; appendixes list 1998 primary elections

• VoteNet--Netivation

• Yahoo! U.S. Elections

Federal Election Commission and campaign finance

• Political Issues: Campaign Finance Reform--Yahoo!

• Campaign Finance--Brookings Institution

• Campaign Finance Reform Proposal--Proposal for limiting campaign funds

• Center for Responsive Politics: Publications [on Money in Politics]

• Destination Democracy--Money: Democracy's Fuel or Democracy's Roadblock?

• Federal Election Commission--FEC Electronic Publication List--federal campaign finance law for citizens, corporations, & organizations

• FECInfo--Federal Election Commission--non-partisan federal candidate campaign money page: 1997-98, 1995-96, and 1993-94 political-action-committee and individual contributor by candidate

• U.S. Federal Election Commission--campaign laws; financial information about candidates, parties, & political action committees; federal elections & voting statistics, other services

• Federal Elections and Voting Statistics--U.S. Federal Election Commission--official 1996 Presidential primary and general election results, voter registration and turnout

• Idea Central Issues in Depth: Campaign Finance Reform--Ed Cohn, Electronic Policy Network
• The Mother Jones 400--Searchable profiles of top contributors to political parties

• Opensecrets.org--Center For Responsive Politics--recent information on campaign finance and about congressional candidates

• So You Want to Buy a President?--"Frontline" report with interviews

U.S. elections - 2000

• Candidate official pages: Bill Bradley (Democrat) | Harry Browne (Libertarian) | Pat Buchanan (Reform) | George W. Bush (Republican) | Al Gore (Democrat) | John Hagelin (Natural Law/Reform) | Alan Keyes (Republican) | John McCain (Republican) | Ralph Nader (Green)

• Political party official pages: Communist Party USA | Constitution Party (formerly US Taxpayers Party) | Democratic Party | Green Party | Labor Party | Libertarian Party | Natural Law Party | Reform Party | Republican Party

• Media Election 2000 pages: American Prospect | C-SPAN | CNN/AllPolitics | Washington Post

• Organization Election 2000 pages: Center for Responsive Politics | Common Cause | Democracy Network/League of Women Voters

• Search Directory Election 2000 pages: Lycosnews | Northern Light Technology | Open Directory Project: DMOZ/Netscape | Yahoo!

  Other Election 2000 pages:

• Campaign 2000 [Tax Issues]--Office of Tax Policy Research, Univ. of Michigan Business School

• electionSearch2000
  Search all the presidential candidates' Web sites for their statements on issues

• Center for Responsive Politics: Election 2000 Congressional Races
  Arranged by zip code, state, and candidate.

• Elections U.S.A.
  "all the elections, all the results, all the time..."

• Issues 2000
  Presidential Candidates on the Issues

• iVillage.com--The Women's Network--Election 2000

• Policy.com--Issues Library: Elections
  Includes Campaign 2000

• Presidentialwatch.com
  Candidates, election news, parties, and resources

• Project Vote Smart--Candidates & Elected Officials
  Biographies, campaign finances, issues positions, performance evaluations, and voting records for federal and state elections

• Web White and Blue--Markle Foundation

• White House 2000--Prof. Avi Bass, Northern Illinois Univ.
  Candidates, campaigns, history, other links.

Please send comments and recommendations to Larry Romans: romans@library.vanderbilt.edu