Political Science 

Web Sites

• General Political Science Web Sites
• American Politics
• Comparative Politics
• International Relations
• Political Economy
• Political Methodology
• Political Theory
• News Sources and Political Science Journals
• Internships

General Political Science Web Sites

The following web sites offer links to a broad spectrum of Political Science areas of interest.

• APSANet (American Political Science Association)

  • Links to professional Political Science departments, organizations, scholarly journals, conferences, scholarships, grants, directories, and interest area mailing lists. Includes Association information such as membership, personnel service, organized sections of APSA, national office, Association governance, APSA publications, grants and fellowships.

• Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources

  • Straightforward arrangement of links by major topic areas spanning political science interests with an international scope: government sources, constitutions and trea ties, elections and electoral systems, political parties and interest groups, political theory, area studies, local and regional government, international relations, data, journals and news sources, and bibliographic tools.

• University of Michigan Library. Political Science Resources.

  • Highly rated list - established by Grace York, Political Science Librarian at the University of Michigan Library - of Political Science web sites. See also the University of Michigan Library's Political Science Research Guides.

• Yahoo: Politics

  • Hierarchical subject list of Internet resources in Political Science

American Politics

• United States politics

  • From the University of Michigan Library, links related to campaign finance, elections, interest groups, political parties, federal and state governments, public opinion, public policy issues, statistics and journals.

Comparative Politics

• Constitutions of the World [from FindLaw.com ]

• Law Library of Congress.  Guide to Law Online.

  • An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. Links to International and Multinational law sources, and the law of Nations of the World.  Also links to U.S. Federal law sources and the law of U.S. States and Territories.

• Lijphart Election Data Archives

  • A research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries, dating from early 1980s through 2003.

• Political Database of the Americas

  • Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions,electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data.

International Relations

• WWW Virtual Library. International Affairs Resources.

  • An Internet directory of annotated links to English-language sources of information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international studies and international relations topics.

• Institute for Global Communications. IGC internet.

  • Links to PeaceNet, EcoNet, AntiRacismNet and WomensNet

• The Multilaterals Project

  • An ongoing project at Tufts University's Fletcher School (Graduate School of International Affairs) to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other international agreements.

• United Nations [home page]

Political Economy

• International Political Economy (IPE) Section web site

  • Links from the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

Political Methodology

• The Society for Political Methodology

  • A gateway to on-line conference papers, abstracts and full text of working papers from the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).  Also includes conference information and back issues of The Political Methodologist (newsletter) and Political Analysis (the official journal of the section).

• Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods 

Political Theory

• University of Michigan Library. Government Documents Center.

  • Search for "political theory" to get an extensive list of web sites.

• Political Theory Webliography

  • Lousiana State University Libraries' links to political theory web sites.

News Sources and Political Science Journals

• Access World News (NewsBank)

  • Full text from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources

• LexisNexis Academic

  • Click the News tab for full text articles from domestic and foreign news sources.

• Political Science and Sociology Online Publications

  • Lists from the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

• UCSB Library guide to News Resources.

Internships

• University of California Washington Center

  • The residential, instructional and research center for students and faculty of the University of California.

• American University Washington Semester

  • Programs in American politics, economic policy, international law and organizations, peace and conflict resolution, and much more.

• Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars

  • An independent, nonprofit organization serving colleges and universities in the United States and other countries by providing selected students challenging opportunities to work and learn in Washington, DC for academic credit.