U.S. Politics

Indexes to Articles

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• Project Muse (recent journal archive in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

• JSTOR (older journal archive in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

 general sources

• Annotated Constitution (Congressional Research Service/Cornell)

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

• FdSys (GPO)

• Information Sources of Political Science - Ref JA 71 .I543

• OpenCRS: Congressional Research Reports

• Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States & Regions - Ref JK 2408 .P623

• Political Keywords - Ref JA 61 .L48

• Safire's Political Dictionary - Ref JK 9 .S2

• State & Local Government on the Net

• Stateline.org

• Vital Statistics on American Politics - Ref JK 274 .S74

legislative

• Almanac of State Legislative Elections - Ref JK 1967 .A77

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 

• Century of Lawmaking: U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates

• Congress & the Nation - Ref KF 49 .C65

• Congress.org

• Congressional Quarterly's Politics in America - Ref JK 1010 .P64

• Congressional Universe

• CQ Weekly - Congressional Quarterly

• Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments - Ref KF 4557 .V555

• Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System - Ref JF 501 .E53

• Legislative Research Guide  (LLRX)

• Maine Legislature

• National Conference of State Legislatures

• Thomas - web site of the U.S. Congress

• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

Executive

• American Presidency Project (UCSB)

• American Presidents Ranked by Performance - Ref E 176.1 .F215

• American State Governors - Ref JK 2447 .K35

• Federal Agency Profiles for Students - Ref JK 421 .F42

• Guide to the Presidency - Ref JK 516 .C57

• Maine State Agencies

• Presidential Administration Profiles - Ref JK 511 .P78

• USA.gov

• Vital Statistics on the Presidency - Ref JK 518 .R34

• White House

judiciary

• Biographical Directory of the Federal Judiciary - Ref KF 8700.A19 B49

• Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the U.S. - Ref KF 8742 .A35 E525

• Federal Judicial Center

• Great American Court Cases - Ref KF 385 .A4 G68

• Landmark Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court - Ref KF 4550 .F54

• Lexis/Nexis>Legal >Federal & State Cases

• Maine Judicial Branch

civil liberties

• Civil Liberties - University of Pittsburgh School of Law

• Civil Rights in America - Ref JC 599 .U5 S53

• Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties - Ref KF 4747.5 .E53

• Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights & Liberties - Ref KF 4748 .E53

• Encyclopedia of the First Amendment - Ref KF 4770 .E53

• USA Patriot Act of 2001 - Ref KF 4850 .B35

Political Opinion

• Gallup Poll - Ref HN 90 .P8 G35

• Measures of Political Attitudes - Ref JA 74.5 .M43

• Political Advocacy Groups  (Washington State University)

• PollingReport.com

elections & representation

• America Votes - Ref JK 1967 .A8

• American National Election Studies

• Center for American Women and Politics

• Encyclopedia of American Political Parties & Elections - Ref JK 2261 .S218

• Encyclopedia of Libertarianism - Ref JC 585 .E53

• Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, & Electoral Behavior - Ref JK 2281 .E53

• Gubernatiorial Elections - Ref JK 2447 .G76

• MAPLight.org - Money & Politics

• Opensecrets.org  - Money in U.S. Elections

• Party Websites (Univ. of Michigan)

• Project Vote Smart

• State Legislative Elections - Ref JK 1967 .B37

• Statistical History of the American Electorate - Ref JK 1967 .R87

• Voting & Registration - U.S. Census

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