CHAPTER ONE: POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Global Gateway, Library of Congress - links to resources on the world’s countries
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
IPSAportal - top 300 sites in political science
http://ipsaportal.unina.it//final.html
Political Resources On The Net - links to politics sites
http://www.political.resources.net
PolitInfo.com - political resources, news, information and links
Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources, Keele University - links to politics sites
Working Paper Sites of Political Science - links to on-line working papers in politics
World Factbook, CIA - country profiles, regularly updated
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Zárate’s Political Collections - world leaders since 1945
http://terra.es/personal2/monolith/home.htm
Documents Center, University of Michigan Library – web political science resources
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html
Europa, European Union - gateway to the European Union
Fund For Peace - profiles of failed states
Global Policy Forum - useful material on nations and states
Human Development Report - publishes the Human Development Index
Transparency International - publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index
Third World Network - development and the third world
World Bank - ranks countries by income and ease of doing business
World Trade Organization - administers the multilateral rules of international trade
Freedom House - widely-used country ratings of democracy, civil liberties and the press
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1
Democracy Coalition Project - s eeks open democratic societies around the world
http://www.demcoalition.org/2005_html/home.html
Direct Democracy, University of Geneva - a n interdisciplinary approach to the study of direct democracy
Journal of Democracy - accessible scholarly articles on the current position of democracy around the world
http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/
National Endowment for Democracy - ‘supporting freedom around the world’
Rights & Democracy – developing democratic practices at national and regional levels
The Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China - website
Dictator of the Month - a rogue’s gallery
http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/English/English_welcome.htm
The Doctrine of Fascism - by Benito Mussolini, coauthored with Giovanni Gentile
http://faculty.smu.edu/bkcarter/THE%20DOCTRINE%20OF%20FASCISM.doc
Marxists Internet Archive - background on Marxist thinking
Transparency International - corruption, which inevitably overlaps with authoritarian rule
Committee on Concepts and Methods - International Political Science Association
http://www.concepts-methods.org/
Comparative Methods in Political and Social Research - David Levi-Faur's course
http://poli.haifa.ac.il/~levi/method.html
Small-NCompass - systematic cross-case analysis
Society for Political Methodology - American Political Science Association
CHAPTER SIX: POLITICAL CULTURE
Bowling Alone.com - the website of Putnam’s book
http://www.bowlingalone.com/index.php3
Civic Practices Network - a learning collaborative for civic renewal
Daniel Elazar Papers Index – papers on American political culture
http://www.jcpa.org/dje/index-apc.htm
Saguaro Seminar, Harvard University - building civic engagement in America
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/index.html
CHAPTER SEVEN: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Infobase - a resource on communication
Reporters without Borders - f or press freedom
Freedom House - press freedom by country
International Federation of Journalists - the world’s largest organization of journalists
Index on Censorship - for free expression
Pew Center for Civic Journalism - advancing good journalism
UNESCO Information and Communication - a cross-national and policy perspective
CHAPTER EIGHT: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Glossary of Political Economy Terms - by Paul M. Johnson, Auburn University
http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/
International Forum on Globalization - the ‘restructuring of global politics and economics’
Martin Wolf, Financial Times - influential columns by a leading commentator
http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/martinwolf
World Bank - An informative site on development policy
CHAPTER NINE: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
American Sociological Association - c ollective Behavior and Social Movements
http://www2.asanet.org/sectioncbsm/
CIVNET, Civitas International - an online resource for civic education practitioners
http://www2.asanet.org/sectioncbsm/
The Communitarian Network - for individual rights and social responsibility
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/index.html
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) - Includes valuable publications on political participation
http://www.idea.int/
CHAPTER TEN: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS
Inter-Parliamentary Union - t he PARLINE database provides election results
IFES - supports the building of democratic societies
Center for Voting and Democracy – advocates ‘meaningful electoral choices’ for the USA
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
Influence - chronicles the relationship between lobbyists and their clients in the USA
opensecrets.org - a guide to money in American elections
National Rifle Association – ‘the right of all law-abiding Americans to … use firearms’
Brady Campaign – ‘leading the fight to prevent gun violence’
CHAPTER TWELVE: POLITICAL PARTIES
ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties - communication among scholars of parties
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/spire/sgpp/index.html
Parties and Elections in Europe - database on European elections, parties and leaders
http://www.parties-and-elections.de/
Political Organizations and Parties Section - American Political Science Association
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CONSTITUTIONS AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Constitution Finder - constitutions and charters
http://confinder.richmond.edu/
European Court of Justice - the official site and links to national sites
http://curia.europa.eu/en/index.htm
International Criminal Court - the official site
http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en
Political Database of the Americas - constitutions and more in the Americas
http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/constudies.html
Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet - numerous links
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/conlaw.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the 1948 Declaration in over 300 translations
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
Forum on Federations - seeks to enhance federalism’s contribution to democracy
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University - Research on federalism and intergovernmental relations in Canada and beyond.
http://www.iigr.ca/iigr.php/index.html
International Association of Centers for Federal Studies - An association of centers for federal studies
http://www.iacfs.org/index.php?page=1&lang=0
Centre for Studies on Federalism - promotes research on federal studies
http://www.csfederalismo.it/User/index_en.html
Committee of the Regions, European Union – a voice in the EU for regions
Centre for Legislative Studies, University of Hull - research about legislatures
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - the parliaments of the Commonwealth
Inter-Parliamentary Union - information on, and links to, national parliaments.
http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
Legislative Studies Quarterly - includes titles and abstracts of articles in the journal
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE POLITICAL EXECUTIVE
AmericanPresident.org - the history and functions of the American presidency
http://www.americanpresident.org/
Cabinet Office, UK - an informative site, not least on cabinet committees
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Center on Institutions and Governance, University of Berkeley - research on institutions
http://igov.berkeley.edu/about.html
President of Russia - an informative site
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Administrative and Civil Service Reform, World Bank - civil service reform
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies - regulatory programs and proposals
Sigma Programme - supporting improvements in governance and public management
United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance - Promotes effective public administration and efficient civil services
Verstehen: Max Weber’s home page - a site for undergraduates, by Frank Elwell
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm#words
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: PUBLIC POLICY
National Institute for Research Advancement - public policy institutes and publications
Economics and Cost Analysis Support, Environment Protection Agency, USA - Analytical guidance on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental policy http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ecas/about.html
The Brookings Institution - independent research and policy solutions
Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank - evaluation of support for capacity building http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/africa_capacity_building/?goog=32
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