This list is organized in the following categories:

• The American Political Science Association
  You will find links to academic institutions, publications, and organizations here at the home of professional political scientists.

• The CIA World Fact Book
  Information about the geography, demographics, economics, politics and military power of every country around the globe.

• Essence of India
  A huge collection of links to things Indian, political and non-political

• Europa, The official site of the European Union
  Press releases and information about the institutions and policies of the European Union.

• FedWorld Guide to Federal Web Pages
  A federal government guide to the federal government web sites. There's a search engine here as well specializing in the nation's official web world.

• Federal Government Web Page Catalog
  This is a seemingly exhaustive list of federal government Web sites compiled by the librarians at Louisiana State University. The list is organized like the government, by branches, departments, and agencies. Fortunately there is a key word search feature and an always-visible set of links to the list's main topic areas.

• A Guide for Contacting Congress
  A comprehensive list of the members of the House and Senate and how to get in touch with them electronically, telephonically, and postally.

• Internet Wiretap
  A collection of government documents from all over the world including constitutions, the NAFTA treaty, and the Maastrict treaty

• International and Area Studies
  Links to a broad range of political, diplomatic, and economic sites from all over the world.

• The Jefferson Project
  A comprehensive guide to on-line politics. There are links here to political, governmental, state and federal resources.

• The New York Times Political Points
  An exhaustive and wonderfully useful collection of links that is updated regularly by Rick Meislin. You must register to use the site, but it was free at publication time.

• The Outline of American Government
  An outline textbook published by the U.S. Information Agency. It begins with the Constitution and the Federalist papers and continues to describe the structure of government today.

• The Political Science List of Lists
  This is the site to use in order to find specialized electronic mailing lists.

• Political Science and Sociology Online Publications
  Take care, this URL is case sensitive. This service of the University of Colorado, with links to academic publications will save a great deal of time and effort as you do research.

• The Political Science Virtual Library
  The University of Connecticut library provides a site at which to begin your research project.

• Politics on the Web from Project Vote Smart
  The emphasis at this site is on politics, not political science. But if your political science project is about politics, there are few better places to begin.

• Think: Opinions, Ideas and Commentary
  This web site offers links to Op/Ed pages from English language newspapers and magazines from around the world.

• THOMAS: The Library of Congress' Record of Congress
  Trumpeted by Speaker Gingrich, this has become the authoritative site on Congress. It lacks committee votes and bill mark-ups, but it's impressively open.

• United Nations
  In English, French or Spanish, there is information here about the institution and its activities.

  United States Congress

• House of Representatives:
  
• Senate:
  Both houses of Congress have sites devoted to their members and activities

• U. S. Courts: The Federal Judiciary Home Page
  The links here go to the district courts, their calendars, and decisions.

• United States Supreme Court Decisions
  There are links here to decisions since 1990 and over 300 historic decisions before 1990.

• United States White House
  There are politics, tourism and substantive information about big issues (see the virtual briefing rooms) at the official White House web site.

• The University of Natal's list of political links
  The site at Pietermaritzburg and the Zambian National WWW Server (to which there is a link) are the two best bets for information about southern Africa. In addition the University of Natal's site offers a great many links for general scholarship and related to the former British Empire.

APA Style of Citation: Electronic Sources

• www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
  
• leo.stcloud.msus.edu/research/apaguidline.html
  
• www.wlu.edu/~library/styleapa.html
  
• webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.com
  The American Psychological Association's standards are generally accepted by scholars and students in all the social sciences. Any one of these sites will offer useful information about how to use the citation style.

• Scholarly Journals List
  The University of Houston library has collected links to a wide variety of journals. The political ones are in here too.

• Understanding and Comparing Web Search Tools
  The librarians at Hamline University have collected a number of important articles on the wide variety of search tools available. If you are still confused about which search engines or catalogs to use, consult the experts' wisdom at this site. You'll also find specific instructions for how to expertly use many different searchers as well as a chart comparing many of the best known searchers.

• American University's Campaign Contribution Site
  One of several good sites at which to research campaign financing and keep track of the political debates about money and politics.

• Articles of Confederation
  If it's dark or cold outside or if the library is far away, here is where you can find an historic document on your desktop computer.

• Congressional Quarterly
  For over 50 years, CQ has been providing reliable, non-partisan news about Congressional behavior. It used to all be on paper; not any more. It's not all free, but some useful information is.

  Constitution of the U. S. A.

• The text
  

• Annotated commentary from Project Vote Smart
  or

• Analysis by the Congressional Research Service
  Remember the dark, cold or far away library? Here are places where you can find another historic document and commentary on your desktop computer.

• C-SPAN's Congress Today
  Information about every member of Congress and some of their votes. It includes U.S. and E-mail addresses.

• Declaration of Independence
  Another historic document on your local computer screen.

• Federal Elections Commission
  The FEC publishes the reports on contributions and contributors submitted by parties and candidates. Most of the documents available must be downloaded to be seen.

• FECInfo Site
  Former employees of the Federal Elections Commission, resigned and created their own site using the public data. The information is much easier to use and sort out than the data at the FEC site.

• Federal Register
  The Federal Register is the official publication of U.S. government regulations. The Governent Printing Office site offers searching capabilities.

• Gallup Poll Organization
  Public opinion polls and special reports from one of the oldest U. S. polling companies.

• Government Documents in the News
  The University of Michigan's Document Center has a huge collection of documents (domestic and international) related to public issues. It includes current documents as well as archives from 1994-1996.

• Historical Documents Archive
  A well-cataloged collection of documents from all over the world.

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
  Transcripts of addresses up to George Bush (maybe it's been updated by the time you read this).

• Iowa Electronic Markets
  An innovative "market" from the University of Iowa's Business School which attempts to predict domestic and international election results by testing people's purchasing decisions.

• Kennedy School of Government's Political Information Network
  A great collection of links to other sites and case studies.

• Library of Congress State Government Site
  A collection of links to data, politics, and geography of the states and the District of Columbia

• The National Center for Policy Analysis
  A think tank set up to provide analysis, debate, and research results to the business and political communities on the economic effects of policy decisions.

• The National Council of State Legislatures
  As more and more legislators get laptops for their desktops, they will be linking to The Electronic Information Network for State Legislatures. If you're researching state or local issues, here's a place for first-class information.

• The Political Science Research Page
  An annotated list of electronic mailing lists if you want to know more than a title before you subscribe.

• Politician Name Index
  Blithely titled "The Political Graveyard," this site offers lists and indices identifying people involved in U. S. politics today and in the past. If you're looking for an identification to go with a name you read about, this is the place to look.

• Power Vote
  These are instructions for research on elections and links to digital resources designed for teachers. They might also prove useful if you're designing a research project.

• Public Research
  This is an excellent source of reports on research sponsored by government agencies.

• The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
  "A non-profit, non-partisan public opinion data archive" based on the publications of the Roper polling company.

• Social Sciences Data Collection
  "The SSDC at the University of California, San Diego, is a collection of large numeric datafiles as well as a set of computer programs that provide easy access to those datafiles through a menu interface. The web version includes a catalog of the entire collection as well as pointers to datasets made available through the internet."

  States

  
  

  Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky

  Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota

  Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

• University of California, Riverside Library
  Scholarly Internet resource collections on political science topics from another well-organized, easily-searchable virtual library.

• U. S. Election Map Bank
  The geography of politics (for the 1988-96 Presidential elections) is available by pointing at a map and clicking a mouse button.

• The University of Texas at Austin Central Libraries
  Here is another virtual library which maintains a long list of links to U.S. government web sites.

• Vote Watch
  From Congressional Quarterly, here's your report from Capitol Hill on what Congress did.

• Yahoo Index: Government
  This is the index of all of Yahoo's government sites. When you can't find something elsewhere, look through these lists.

• Communist Party-USA
  
• Democratic National Committee
  
• Democratic Socialists of America
  
• Green Parties of North America
  
• Libertarian Party
  
• Natural Law Party
  
• New Party
  
• Reform Party (Ross Perot)
  
• Republican National Committee
  
• U. S. Taxpayers Party
  

  Lists of Parties

• World Wide Directory of Parties
  
• Project Vote Smart: Parties
  
• Yahoo! Political Parties List
  

• AdmiNet
  A fairly comprehensive source of links to politics, news and economics about France. Much of the information is in French, but there is significant content in English..

• Africa HotList
  The Franklin Institute's list of links to things African. It includes everything from ancient Egypt to virtual tourism, but political links are easily identifiable.

• African National Congress
  The revolutionary party now governing South Africa presents itself on the web. There are many links here to governmental and political information.

• Arab World Online
  While the quality and extent of information varies from nation to nation, there are links here to countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

• AsiaLink
  There are links here to individual nations as well as economic and cultural information.

• British Government Central Office of Information
  The COI is the official voice of the British government. At this site you will find official press releases and information about government departments.

• British Politics Page
  A large list of links to sites about British politics sponsored by a London bookstore. It includes e-mail links to British politicians.

• Caribbean Home Page
  Want to know about individual nations, media, politics, sports, or academics in the Caribbean? This MIT site will connect you.

• The Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research
  A European think tank, founded in 1986, that is an independent academic institution researching and teaching in the fields of security policy and conflict analysis.

• Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations
  "CEIFO [the Swedish acronym], is an inter-disciplinary research unit established 1983 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University. Its research programme covers international migration, ethnicity, nationalism, xenophobia and racism, ethnic relations, immigration policies."

• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members
  From the CIA, here's the list of state and government leaders from every country in world.

• China News Digest
  Begun in 1988, by Chinese expatriates, CND is a central point for news, politics, and recent history.

• The Republic of China
  Official government information about government, leaders, and politics in the Republic of China.

• Constitutions of the World
  It is an "antique" gopher server (i.e. text only). But, do you really want animated graphics on your screen while you try to download the constitution of Macedonia?

• East European News
  Radio Free Europe has been transformed into the Open Market Research Institute and continues to report and analyze the news about East Europe and the former Soviet Union.

• Electoral Web Sites
  There are links at this site to elections, parties, parliaments, and a political database for the globe.

• Electronic Embassy
  There are links here to embassies in the U.S. The quality varies with the priorities of the countries represented.

• EuroDocs
  Facsimiles and translations of documents from Western European nations collected and displayed by the library at Bringham Young University.

• EuroLink
  Search engines for sixteen nations in English or French.

• Foreign Affairs Magazine
  One of the U. S. A.'s most respected journals about foreign policy is now on-line and maintains a large file of links to sites related to international relations.

• Fourth World Documentation Project
  "Our goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to documents and resources about the poorest and least industrialized people and nations." You will find here an on-line library of texts which record and preserve peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community.

• Germany
  A German government-operated site aimed at a U. S. audience. Includes links to information and news about Germany.

• GODORT International Documents Task Force
  Northwestern University's library has a well-organized collection of links to a huge list of international organizations.

• Heads of Governments
  "This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders who don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories."

• INCORE, The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
  This is a joint venture of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University to act as a central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict.

• Indonesian Government Links
  Connections to web and gopher sites.

• Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation
  Research and reports on economics, defense, and the environment from a multi-campus research unit in the University of California system.

• The International Institute for Strategic Studies
  This Swiss think tank was founded in 1958, is an independent center for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict-primarily military conflict.

• International Institute for Sustainable Development
  A government-funded organization with a mission to promote sustainable development in decision making internationally and within Canada.

• Japan - Prime Minister
  Available in Japanese or English, this server is in the Prime Minister's official residence.

• Latin World
  English and Spanish links to news and specific countries in Latin America.

• Malaysia Home Page
  A public service site maintained by a web service provider in Malaysia that contains links to economic, governmental, and legal information.

• Maximov On-line
  News from Russia and the CIS from the Interfax News Agency, directories of Russian leaders and links to recent election results in Russia.

• NATO
  The official page from an organization that is growing and redefining itself.

• Pacific Islands Internet Resources
  There are links here to individual nations' sites and sites about issues related to Pacific nations.

• Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Around the World
  This site provides a valuable service by reporting on election results-even obscure ones.

• Parliaments
  Links here will connect you to sites of national parliaments and multinational legislatures like the European Parliament.

• Russia On-Line
  Links to sources in English and Russian for official information and news about Russian government and politics.

• RussianWeb
  As the URL suggests, there are links here to the states of the former Soviet Union. Accessible information includes political information, statistical data, and reference sites.

• Sinn Fein
  The Irish Republican Army's political wing makes its case on the World Wide Web.

• The Tocqueville Connection
  News and analysis with a French perspective; especially concerned with Franco-American relations

• United States Information Agency Daily Washington File
  News deemed important by the USIA and distributed to thw world. Informatation is available in several languages and the archive goes back to 1992.

• USAfrica Project
  From the publisher of USAfrica comes this site touting itself as "The authoritative link for the U. S. and Africa."

• World Association of Major Metropolises
  Multi-lingual links to cities and issues about urban political issues.

• The World Bank
  A truly trans-national organization active in trade, finance and development, especially in developing countries.

• World Population
  An estimate of the world population that is updated regularly.

• ABC News
  
• AfricaNews Online
  
• Agence France-Presse
  
• All Politics - from Time Magazine and CNN
  
• American Journalism Review News Link
  
• The Australian National News of the Day
  
• Berliner Morgenpost (in English)
  
• British Broadcasting Corporation News
  
• Buenos Aires Herald
  
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  
• CBS News
  
• CNN
  
• C-SPAN
  
• Daily Express of East Malaysia
  
• Deutsche Welle Online (in English)
  
• Ecola Directory of On-line Magazines
  
• Electronic Mail and Guardian (from South Africa)
  
• e vote
  
• HotWired Newsbot
  
• India Current Affairs
  
• India Daily
  
• The Internet Herald
  
• Internet Public Library world-wide directory of on-line newspapers
  
• Jerusalem Post
  
• Kidon Media Links
  
• Kyodo News (Japan)
  
• Microsoft/NBC News
  
• Nando Times
  
• National Public Radio
  
• NeWo News
  
• The New York Times
  
• Notimex from Mexico
  
• Pathfinder - Link to Time-Warner publications
  
• PBS News
  
• Reuters News Service On-line
  
• Roll Call Magazine
  
• Russian News Agency (ITAR-TASS)
  
• Small Hours News (World news sources)
  
• U. S. News & World Report Online
  
• Virtual Jerusalem
  
• The Washington Post
  
• Xinhua News Agency (Peoples Republic of China)
  

• AAUW Voter Education Campaign
  The American Association of University Women advocates informed participation and some positions.

• ACLU Freedom Network
  The American Civil Liberties Union prides itself on defending all civil liberties

• AFL-CIO Home Page
  The largest labor union federation in the USA

• American-Israel Public Affairs Committee
  One of the best known and most effective lobbying organizations in Washington, D.C.

• Amnesty International On-line
  Activism for human rights everywhere

• The Carter Center
  Begun by President and Mrs. Carter to combat "disease, hunger, poverty, conflict and oppression" through "cooperation, democracy, and development."

• Cato Policy Report Index
  A think tank "promoting public policy based on limited government, free markets, individual liberty and peace."

• The Center for Democracy and Technology
  A "non-profit public interest organization developing and advocating public policies that advance Constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communication technologies."

• The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
  A University of Colorado research center studying the causes of social violence and attempts to end the violence.

• The Christian Coalition
  A source of information and a center of communication for conservative Christian activists.

• Communications Workers of America
  A union working to keep pace with the changes in the industry most of its members work in.

• ConservativeNet
  A site with many links to politically conservative groups and information about conservative politics.

• The Concord Coalition
  A multi-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public about the need to balance the US federal budget.

• Council of Latino Agencies
  Political action and service are the focus of these groups.

• The Earth Times
  Environmental activists on-line.

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
  A "non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media."

• The Electronic Policy Network
  A centrist think tank (It's been labeled. Can you evaluate the label?)

• Emily's List
  An organization dedicated to electing women (mostly Democrats) to public office

• EnviroLink Network
  A central "bulletin board" for environmental groups.

• FAIR -- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
  FAIR is a "national media watch group offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance" from a liberal perspective.

• Feminist Majority Foundation
  Think tank and political action center.

• FreeViet Home Page
  Anti-Communist organization and lobbying group.

• The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
  A Vanderbilt University "forum for dialogue, discussion and debate on free expression and freedom of information issues."

• Human Rights Watch
  "Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world."

• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
  ISCV is "a non-profit organization established in Philadelphia in 1973 to promote the fulfillment of America's historic civic ideals."

• The International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  Another of the U. S.' largest unions presents itself and its concerns on-line.

• The International Workers of the World
  Mostly historical, the IWW is still around representing the left wing of the U. S. labor movement.

• Institute for Global Communication
  "IGC's five online communities of activists and organizations: PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, and WomensNet, are gateways to articles, headlines, features, and web links on progressive issues."

• The John Birch Society
  Founded during the Cold War, the John Birch Society continues to fight for against Communism and socialism.

• Media Research Center
  Here is a conservative critique of the media. If you want the latest examples which prove to believers the domination of the media by liberals, here's where to get it.

• MoJo Wire
  Mother Jones magazine, famous for its investigative reporting, will put you in touch with Hell Raiser Central and the Coin-Op Congress pages.

• NAACP
  "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the oldest, largest and strongest Civil Rights Organization in the United States."

• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
  One of the largest pro-choice organzations states its case at this site.

• National Committee for an Effective Congress
  Making the case for freedom of choice, separation of church and state, gun control, equal rights, and environmental protection, the NCEC is a think tank for progressives.

• National Organization for Women
  NOW is a large organization advocating equal rights for women.

• National Rifle Association
  The NRA is dedicated to protecting the right to bear arms.

• National Right to Life Committee
  One of the largest anti-abortion organzations states it case at this site.

• National Urban League
  The National Urban League is the "premier social service and civil rights organization in America."

• Not One More!
  A web site devoted to young victims of crime and the prevention of crime.

• People for the American Way
  A lobbying organization dedicated to tolearance, secularism in politics, and religious liberties.

• Rainforest Action Network
  Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

• Right on the Web
  A large collection of links to conservative political groups.

• The Right Side of the Net
  Established in 1994 to "counter all the socialism and moral anarchy out there on the Net."

• The Sheet Metal Workers International Association
  The tinsmiths' union has set up an information service "for interested and involved persons, such as our membership, to add our collective knowledge to a growing global economy."

• Spy/Intelligence Sources
  Links to sites associated with intelligence past and present all over the world.

• Turn Left...the home of Liberalism
  The home of liberalism on the web.

• The United States Chamber of Commerce
  The nation's largest business association presents its interests to the world.

• VOTELINK
  Votelink Inc. is a private company with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. It says it fosters global thinking on local issues, and as an interactive news channel, creates a place on the Web for electronic democracy.

• Welcome to World Liberalism
  Links to liberal organizations and information from everywhere.

• Women's Resources on the Web
  A long list of links to information and organizations concerned with women's issues from a site at the University of North Carolina. and

• www.dsiegel.com/women/women_home.html
  Links to sites whose goals include improvement of women's health and status in society.

• The World's Women On-Line!
  Begun in conjunction with the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995, the site continues as a set of links between women around the globe.

• Blacksburg Electronic Village
  A Virginia community-based web site.

• The British Royal Family
  The official web site (150 pages) of the ruling family of the United Kingdom.

• Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
  This group wants to reclaim Hawaiian independence.

• KGB Archives
  Documents from the KGB archives in Moscow

• Northfield Citizens Online
  An example of the community-based, politically-oriented web sites.

• Zambian National Web Server
  The site of the Zambia Legal Information Institute. One of the more valuable web sites in Africa.