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Good Politics Links and Resource Pages


General Links Pages
PolyCy
Paul Hensel
Peter Ruckman
UCSB
Richard Kimber
PSA



Campaign Finance Sites
opensecrets.org (The Center for Responsive Politics)
Who's giving to whom and how much?
527s Page at opensecrets.org
The new soft money, baby
The Campaign Finance Information Center
Follow the trail...
Political MoneyLine
Numbers, numbers, and more numbers
The Campaign Finance Institute
Solid Reporting and White Papers
The Brookings Institution
Headlines and Analysis
The Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy
Academic Enterprise Focused on Indirect Campaign Finance and Other Important Electoral Issues



Congress
House of Representatives Home Page
Public access to legislative information.
Senate Home Page
Public access to the Senate.
Congress.org
Write your representatives!
Library of Congress
Archives of just about everything...
Thomas
Legislative Information on the Internet



Executive Branch/Bureaucracy
The White House
Home Page of the Executive Branch, interesting map of Washington, virtual tours, publications, guest book.
Executive Branch Offices from LOC
Every part of the Exec Branch, including the EOP, agencies, etc.
FedWorld
A comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information.
Census
U.S. census information and data access point.
CIA
Information concerning the Central Intelligence Agency.



Judiciary
Supreme Court
The official site of the US Supreme Court.
Supreme Court
This site offers biographical data on the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Decisions Audio
Supreme Court cases as well as other stuff.
Federal Court Decisions
Recent Federal court decisions are found here.



Public Opinion
Polling Report
just about every recent poll that's worth looking at.
Pew Research Center
Survey results from the folks at Pew.
Gallup Poll
Survey results from Gallup Poll.
Zogby Poll
Survey results from Zogby Poll.
National Election Study
This site contains the results of the National Election Study. This includes survey results on ideology and public opinion.



Public Policy
VERA Institute of Justice
The Vera Institute conducts governmental projects and experiments, such as the Jury Project.
Public Agenda
a wonderful website of issue guides, public opinion data, interest group addresses, and the workings of government
Annenberg Public Policy Center
Policy research and reports
Federal Budget
Simulation of the Federal Budgetary Process.
Federal Budget
Another simulation of the Federal Budgetary Process.



Political Parties
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Reform Party
Libertarian Party
Green Party



Voting and Elections
National Election Study
This site contains the results of the National Election Study. A good site for demographic/political breakdowns and information also.



International Politics Data/Global Affairs
IR Data
Paul Hensel's listing of data sources
Country Data
International data sorted by country.
International Data from CIESIN
This site has information on international issues of AID's and the Environment from the CIESIN organization.
Economic Data from the World Bank
Macroeconomic and other data
UN and other IR data
a good link list from Yale



Interest Groups
Public Agenda
a wonderful website of issue guides, public opinion data, interest group addresses, and the workings of government
AARP, AFL-CIO, and the NRA
Some of the largest interest groups in the U.S.
PIRG
Links to those powerful state public interest groups


The following sites are great for checking out the legitimacy of charities and/or businesses
The National Charities Information Bureau
The Council of Better Business Bureaus
The Internet Nonprofit Center
Contact Center Network's Nonprofit Website Directory