Web Sites by Subject Government & Politics
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- The American Presidency Project
- American President: An Online Reference Resource
- Amnesty International Online (with link to annual report)
- Avalon Project Documents in Law, History, Diplomacy (Full text documents from code of Hammurabi to 20th c documents)
- Budget of the United States government
- Catalog of US Government Publications
- Census Atlas of the United States
- Congressional Directory C. Span
- The Congressional Pig Book (2020) (Citizens Against Government Waste)
- Congressional Quarterly (offers daily updates and current topics)
- Constitute Project (constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents)
- Country Briefings (Articles from Economist also profiles of political parties, economies, and major world cities)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (from US Department of State)
- Country Reports on Terrorism (from U.S. Department of State)
- CQ Federal: U.S. Congress Bill Tracking
- Education Law Center
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
- Europa (European Union Home Page)
- Find Law
- Foreign Relations of the United States: Historical Document (the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions under each administration from 1861-2000)
- Gallup
- Graylit Network (Access to full text documents resulting from federally- funded scientific research. Agencies represented are Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Defense, EPA, and NASA)
- Guide to House and Senate Members
- Guide to U.S. Government Sites by Topic
- Human Rights Watch
- The League of Women Voters of New Jersey
- Legal Information Institute (Supreme Court decisions)
- Most Corrupt Members in Congress Report
- Municipal Codes on the Internet
- Municipal Codes Web Library
- National Association of a Counties (Info on the 3067 counties in US lists, where submitted, county codes, ordinances, and policies, also retrieve county demographic and business data, along with listings of county executive)
- New Jersey Administrative Code (updated quarterly)
- New Jersey Permanent Statutes Database
- New Jersey Session Laws (Rutgers School of Law - Camden)
- New York Code, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR)
- New York City Records and Documents (a selective resources at Columbia University Libraries and on the Internet)
- Nira's World Directory of Think Tanks (Directory of think tanks with links to many sites with full text reports and documents)
- The Official Document System of the United Nations (a searchable database providing access to a large amount of UN documents)
- Opinion Poll Data ( Columbia University Libraries. Access poll questions and datasets from a variety of U.S. and international polling firms)
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
- UK Parliament: Publications and Records
- United Nations
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- US Conference of Mayors (online publications on homelessness, recycling, metropolitan, economics, history of U.S. mayors and their communities' web address)
- U.S. Government Manual (the official handbook of the U.S. government)
- U.S. House of Representatives
- The United States Senate
- U.S. Small Business Administration (Links to all Federal servers)
- State and Local Government on the net
- Voter Information Services (Includes scorecards, voting records, and public interest group ratings for members of the U.S. Congress.)
- White House
- World Leaders (CIA publications)
- World Legal Information Institute (Provides online access to hundreds of country-specific legal sites and journals)
- World Statesmen (List of country leaders, some back to 1700. List of nations, colonies, territories, etc.)
Last updated: 11/18/2020