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Political Science: Other Websites

Guide to Resources and Reference Assistance for Political Science

Open Government Directive
Issued December 8, 2009.
Maplight.org
Opensecrets.org
The Center for Responsive Politics
US GPO (Government Printing Office)
GovTrack
Independent & nonpartisan, provides congressional information to citizens and civil society with an eye toward transparency and accountability.
Sunlight Foundation
Sunlight Foundation Blog
Center for Public Integrity
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."
Political Moneyline
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.

Country Reports
Guide to Country Rankings
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.
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
Political Resources on the Net
GlobaLex
Resources for research on international law, comparative law, foreign law.

IMF Country Information
Handbook of Latin American Studies from Library of Congress
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.
Political Database of the Americas (from Georgetown University)
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".
Organization of American States
The portal to information and documents pertaining to member states, the OAS and its activities.
Statistics and Indicators (CEPALSTAT, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carbibean)
World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean