Issued December 8, 2009.

The Center for Responsive Politics

Independent & nonpartisan, provides congressional information to citizens and civil society with an eye toward transparency and accountability.

Founded in 1989. Mission statement: "To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism."

A source for campaign finance and lobbying information. Provides campaign donation and expenditure data from the 1979-80 election cycle through the most recent filings. Some data free; subscription required for analytical tools.

A useful guide to rankings of nations using indicators to assess a nation's placement according to the variables of: Civil Liberties, Corruption, Development, Economic Factors, the Environment, Gender related factors, Government and Political assessments, Freedom of Press, Imprisonment statistics. This useful guide was created by Clement Ho of the American University Library. Researchers should carefully analyze the perspective of the organization or group generating the rankings as well as examining the methodologies employed in creating the rankings.

Resources for research on international law, comparative law, foreign law.

Annotated bibliography of material relating to Latin America covering anthropology, art, economics, education, geography, government, history, international relations, language and literature, law, music, philosophy, sociology, and travel. Each volume also contains special articles on particular phases of life and culture or inter-American relations. This online version is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Provides "centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region".

The portal to information and documents pertaining to member states, the OAS and its activities.

Vanderbilt University Library

New Mexico State University Library

New York University Libraries

University of Texas at Austin