Political Science: A Research Guide

From the Library of Congress.

Pennsylvania's official source of population and economic statistics.

Open States aggregates legislative information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Pennsylvania data is automatically collected nightly from the official website of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

News, current events, information and analysis to support state legislatures. Bipartisan research on important public policy issues facing state governments.

The Pennsylvania Policy Database Project at Temple University was a free, online resource that provided access to more than 200,000 state and news media records. The database is no longer maintained, but this page links to other projects and lists the source documents they used.

The U.S. government's official web portal. Search across every federal, state, and local government website, or browse by topic of interest.

Collection of articles on various policy topics from Good Authority (previously "The Monkey Cage" under the Washington Post). Each article is written by a political scientist.

Searchable, but one can browse by topic. Survey data is combined for past years.

A non-partisan center at UVA with a focus on studying the presidency. Don't miss their encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidents.

A collection of historic editorial cartoons from the Ohio State University.

Free, up-to-date, and easily understandable legal information and tools, including a directory of lawyers.

a website directory at Elizabethtown College that is part of the WWW Virtual Library System, with over 2000 carefully selected, annotated links in 37 international affairs categories.

Information from the State Dept on US relations with foreign countries. Links at the bottom of each entry point to other useful US government pages detailing aspects of the country.

Annual reports filed by country. Compiled by the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

An independent, nonpartisan membership organization on foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

An independent organisation working to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world.