Politics
Online Reference Sources
- Europa World Yearbook This link opens in a new window
First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
- US Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Full text of US Congress publications including the complete set of the Congressional Record from 1789.
- Congressional Research Service PublicationsA non-governmental site dedicated to making public CRS research reports provided to members of Congress.
- CQ ResearcherComprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline academic research package, with FastCase, provides subscribers access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels and enables users to access the full text of cases. It also includes more than 100 million pages of content and covers more than 100 subject areas and provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world.
- US Roll CallNews on US politics and Congress
- AP - NORCPolling results from the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicaga
- Pew Research CenterPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
- Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
Full text of the complete set of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Parliamentary Papers collection including Hansard Parliamentary Debates. A major source of primary source materials on all aspects of British society and the British Empire.
- World Development Indicators This link opens in a new window
Provides access to international economic, demographic and social data from the World Bank.
- SCOTUSBLOGSCOTUSblog is devoted to covering the U.S. Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards.
- OYEZOyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone.
- Economic Report of the PresidentThe Economic Report of the President (ERP) is an annual report produced by the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation’s economic progress with text and extensive data appendices.
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