Major
Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area
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| The Almanac of American Politics |
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CountryWatch -- up-to-date news, data, background briefings, &
analysis on every country of the world. |
Europa Series: Regional Surveys of the World: |
- Africa South of the
Sahara
DT351 .A35
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote D'Ivoire,
Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, St. Helena, Sao Tome
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South
Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe
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- Central and South-Eastern
Europe
DAW1009 .C437
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia,
Slovenia
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- Eastern Europe, Russia
and Central Asia
DJK1 .E22
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan,
Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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- The Far East and
Australasia
DS1 .F3
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia,
China, Hong Kong, Macao, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan,
Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New
Zealand, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
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- The Middle East and North
Africa
DS49 .M58
Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Autonomous
Areas, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spanish North Africa, Syria,
Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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- South America, Central
America and the Caribbean F1408.29 .S68
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin
Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland
Islands, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat,
Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto
Rico, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, South Georgia and the South Sandwich
Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Cacos Islands,
U.S. Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela
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- South Asia
HC412 .S688
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
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The USA and
Canada
E31 .U8
U.S.A., Canada
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- Western Europe
HC240.A1 W4
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, The
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City
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Web Resources
New York
New York City
New York State
- Legal Information Institute
from Cornell Law School
- New York State The state web
site with the governor's press releases, links to government
agencies, and much more. New York State has a lot of material
available on the web; this site is a good starting point when
looking for New York government information and current documents.
- New York State Assembly
- New York State Senate
- New York State Board of
Elections is "a bipartisan agency vested with the responsibility
for administration and enforcement of all laws relating to elections
in New York State." The site provides information about voting,
election law, results, and district maps and representatives.
National
Federal Elections |
Executive | Legislative |
Judicial |
Other (non-governmental)
Federal Elections
Executive Branch
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Official US
Executive Branch Web Sites has connections to the home pages of
the White House, Executive Branch Agencies, and Independent
Government Agencies.
- The White House includes
information about the White House and the text of published remarks
by the president, press briefings, and some statistics.
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
Other
Sites (non-governmental)
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The Budget of the United States Government -- budget documents and
spreadsheets for the U.S. government.
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Center for
Responsive Politics " is a non-partisan, non-profit research
group based in Washington, D.C. that specializes in the study of
Congress and particularly the role that money plays in its elections
and actions. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign
finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and other
interested observers of Congress." CRP provides access to its
databases, such as the PAC Database, the Incumbent Campaign Finance
Profiles, and the Interest Group Categories Database.
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FedStats -- statistics in all subjects from U.S. Government
agencies.
- Free-Market.Net
Sponsored by The Henry Hazlitt
Foundation, Free-Market.Net is a
"comprehensive online database and virtual community for the
international pro-freedom movement. It is designed to help
libertarian advocates communicate online, and thereby help spread
the ideas of liberty to every corner of the globe." Provides a very
flexible search engine and easy-to-use directory to find information
on the Web with a libertarian viewpoint. Links to 42 partners'
and 285 members' home pages, plus thinks-tanks and clubs.
- Jurist : The Legal Education
Network is an academic gateway to authoritative legal
instruction, information and scholarship online. Use Jurist to
obtain up-to-date legal news on over 60 topics and search federal
caselaw and legislation, among other things. A team of law
professors (national and international) edit the site; it is
directed by Professor Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of
Pittsburgh School of Law.
- National Election Studies
produces "high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political
participation that serve the research needs of social scientists,
teachers, students, and policy makers..." This site links to the
NES Guide
to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior, which provides
"immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow
of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American
politics since 1952. The Guide presents responses to a small portion
of the questions that have been asked in the 1952-1996 National
Election Studies." The NES web page also links to other resources
for studies and data.
- National Political Index
The National Political Index "provides an index of substantive
political information for voters, political activists, political
consultants, lobbyists, politicians, academicians, and media editors
with a wide range of products, information, services, simulations,
games, and polling in an interactive communications environment."
This site links to approximately 3,500 political web sites.
The sites are arranged by topic.
- Newseum Website of
the interactive museum of news, located on Madison Avenue, which
explores the history of news, showcases award-winning
photojournalism, and examines the media's coverage of historic and
current events. Click on Cyber Newseum for online exhibits.
International Politics and Government
General |
Governments on the Web | Human Rights
General
- Department of State has
speeches, publications and major reports, country reports on human
rights practices, and other full-text documents.
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Foreign
Affairs Online focuses on International Relations, International
Law and U.S. Foreign Policy. The site provides links to a
large number of NGOs, official and non-official web sites of foreign
governments, a number of think tanks, etc. The site loads VERY
slowly.
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Lehman Library's General International Affairs Resources. This
subject guide lists both restricted sites and web sites for
researching International Affairs. A good starting place if you
don't want to be overwhelmed with possible resources.
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Political
Science Resources on the Web is a mega-site for national and
international political science. From the
University of Michigan's
Documents Center.
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United Nations provides information
about the U.N. and links to other U.N. System Organizations and non-U.N.
International Organizations.
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US
Census International Data Base allows the user to select one of
26 demographic, ethnic, and economic variables and any or all of the
countries in the world and receive a table for that variable.
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Women in Politics
Bibliographic Database contains bibliographic references to
books and articles dealing with women in politics. The
International-Parliamentary Union's,
with the contribution of the United
Nations Development Programme, is responsible for the database.
The database allows for searching by type of document, geographic
location, organization, subject, author, and periodical, year of
publication, and language,
as well as searching free-text.
Governments on the Web
- Governments on the WWW is
a "Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World
Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies,
city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks,
multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political
parties. Online since June 1995."
- International
Constitutional Law provides the constitutions of a huge number
of countries.
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International Documents provides pointer pages to over 60
country government pages and nearly 100 International Government
Organizations (IGOs). Created and maintained at the Northwestern
University Library's Government Publications & Maps Department.
Human Rights
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Human and
Constitutional Rights from the Human Rights Institute, Columbia
Law School. The site is divided into the following sections:
Hot Topics, Country Reports International Links, Regional Links,
National Links, Documents, Web Resources.
- Human Rights Library
from the University of Minnesota. Treaties, U.S. Human Rights
documents, U.N. documents, refugee and asylum resources, etc. This
web site has a search function for its own web site and other human
rights sites.
- Human Rights Watch acts
as a clearinghouse of information for those interested in health,
law, literary freedom, medicine, and war crimes. All institutional
participants are independent, nongovernmental, non-partisan
organizations.
Other Subject
Guides
See also the Columbia University
U.S.
Government Documents
page of links and resources.
See also
Women and U.S. Politics Guide
Return to
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Guides list
Updated 1/30/2007
Jenna Freedman, Reference
Librarian |
