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Last updated on December 8,
2008
Resources for the study of United States politics also appear throughout
the Documents Center's web site, especially in the Political Science,
Federal, Michigan, State, and Documents in the
News clusters. This web page covers material unique to U.S. politics
with numerous cross references to the related pages.
- Cases and
Materials on American Federalism (Amber/Purdue)
- Extensive course materials provide primary documents on political
theory and American history with sections on the founding fathers, three
branches of government and civil rights issues
- Texts include Magna Carta, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu
- Various drafts of the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist,
numerous court cases
- Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless
electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four
cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election
- Internet
Guides to Political Science Resources
- Links to guides covering U.S. and foreign politics
- National Political
Index
- Directories of federal and state elected officials and candidates
- Voter information, political magazines, political humor, consulting
services, and much more
- Political
Information
- Mega web index to public policy concerns
- Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web
sites
- Sample search: +michigan +concealed-weapons
- This
Nation's American Government and Politics Textbook
- Online textbook on American government
- Chapters on foundations (American Revolution, constitution,
self-rule, federalism), the branches of government,
legislative and budget processes, public opinion, voting
- Glossary of political terms, teaching aids, and a library of full
text documents (major Supreme Court decisions, declarations of war,
etc.)
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774+ (Senate)
- Substantial biographies of all Senators, Representatives, and other
delegates to Congress, Continental Congress to the present
- Includes links to the location of their research papers
- Search by first name, last name, position, and/or state
- Not currently searchable by other
characteristics (date served, party, etc.); no historic lists of all
delegations by Congress number
- Political
Graveyard
- Cemeteries in which over 100,000 federal, state and local politicians
are
buried
- Arranged by name of person, office, birth and death years
- Cemeteries arranged alphabetically and by state/county
- Brief political biography of politician with links to fuller
biographies as available
- Cemetery lists provide biographies of politicians with some links to
the Tiger Map Server
- Presidents of the United States
(IPL/Summers)
- Extensive web site with pages for each President, Washington to Clinton
- Picture, biographies, election results, first ladies, cabinets,
highlights of administration, historical documents, and links to
related Internet sites
- Special attention paid to links describing historical events and
biographies of cabinet members
- Project Vote Smart
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, campaign receipts by Political
Action Committee subject groupings
- Candidate answers to the National Political
Awareness Test, a questionnaire on issues in the election
- Current Congress and Governors
- Biographies and web sites of prospective 1996 Presidential
candidates
- Who's
Who in American Politics (UMich Only)
- Separate database accessed through the Marquis Who's Who
Online database
- Includes presidents and vice presidents, current and former living
cabinet members, legislators, judges, governors
- Current ambassadors, mayors and council members of large cities,
political party chairs
- Entries for former officials often include their current
addresses
- Related Web Pages
- Advertising
- Candidates
- Clerk of the House
- Directories of the 104th Congress to present, biographies of speakers
since the first Congress
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1920
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- Politics 1
- Political assessment of candidates
- Extensive links to gubernatorial and Congressional candidates by
state as well as news sources and parties
- National and international election news sources
- Campaign buttons, national parties
- Previous elections not archived
- Project Vote Smart
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, campaign receipts by Political
Action Committee subject groupings
- Candidate answers to the National Political
Awareness Test, a questionnaire on issues in the election
- Current Congress, Presidential, Gubernatorial, and State Legislative elections
as well as incumbents
- State Primaries and Caucuses
- Presidential and state candidates are usually chosen by primaries,
caucuses or state conventions
- The method of choice may vary between political parties within a
given state
- Voting Assistance Guide
- Appendix B lists prsidential and state primary dates and runoff dates
- Located in the Graduate Library Reference Room (JK 1876 .A36)
- PDF version of Voting
Assistance Guide
- Candidate Resources
- How to Run for the Presidency
- Political
Resources Online
- Searchable list of over 3000 political products and services (e.g.
pollsters, posters)
- Approach by specialty, geography, party, and
name
- Calendar of upcoming events, including conventions, state primaries
- Web sites of federal, state, and local candidates
- Secretary
of State Offices (Political Resources)
- Links to state Secretary of State offices
- Individual web sites often have campaign information and election
results
- VoteNet
- Political resources for the candidate
- Includes books, think tanks, political strategists and pollsters
- Issues research (abortion, affirmative action, gun control, etc)
- News Sources
- AllPolitics (Time/CNN)
- Current political news
- Public opinion polls on the issues
and election results
- Ballot Access
News
- Non-partisan newsletter on voting issues within the states
- Archived since 1994
- Campaigns and
Elections (Congressional Quarterly)
- Election news, political odds on the candidates
- Political services and buyer's guide
- Some sections require password
- Full text of periodical available to University of Michigan
affiliates through Proquest
- Congressional
Quarterly
(UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- American National Election
Studies
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation
studies
- Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
- Documentation in Word Perfect format
- Its Guide
to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides
summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public
opinion, 1952 to present
- Political Parties
- List of major U.S. political parties cited on this web page
- Presidential
Debates and Transcripts
- Transcripts of Presidential debates, 1960 and 1976-92
- Includes vice presidential debates beginning 1984
- Browsable by date or searchable by keyword
Campaign
Finances
- Campaign Finances
(Federal Election Commission)
- Summary receipts and disbursements of Presidential and all Congressional
candidates since 1996
- Detailed files with individual contributors beginning 1993/94 can be
downloaded
- Image files of individual campaign committee reports beginning with
the 1999/2000 election cycle
- FECInfo (Tony
Raymond)
- Congressional and Presidential campaign contributions searchable by
name, state, Political Action Committee, or individual beginning with 1996
- Special analyses include contributors by occupation or zip code and
candidates receiving the most out-of-state money
- User-friendly
interface
- Cashing
In
- Subtitle: A Guide to Money, Votes, and Public Policy in
the 104th Congress
- Analyzes 42 issues and 28 roll call votes in the 104th Congress on
household finance, tax, environmental, and health issues
- Identifies the votes of key Congressmen and the campaign funding
received by lobby groups who took positions on the issues
- Users may also search an issue to determine the votes of individual
Members of Congress or the alignments within a state or party
- Search results include the Member's vote and the campaign
contributions received from the corresponding lobby group
- Open Secrets (Center for Responsive Politics)
- Numerous data bases for tracking Congressional and Presidential campaign contributions since 1990
- Search engines include recipient and donor (name, location, occupation)
- Additional breakdowns by candidate, industry, Congressional committee membership
- 270 to Win
- Map of electoral college votes since 1789
- Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
- Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004
(with red, blue and swing states)
- Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy
- America
Votes (Richard Scammon)
- Votes for President and Governor by state and county beginning 1952
- Votes for Members of Congress by Congressional District beginning 1946
- Only available in paper copy: Reference Room JK 1967 .A1 A68
- Two-year time lag between the general elections and publication
date
- Clerk
of the House
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1992
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- CQ Voting
and Elections (UMich Only)
- Browse the Presidential, Congressional, or Gubernatorial sections by state to obtain county or Congressional District election data
- Presidential by county: 1920+, presidential primary by state: 1916-24, 1972+;
Congressional district by district: 1832+; gubernatorial by county: 1970+
- Use the very small link on the bottom left frame of the main page to export or download data
- David
Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
- Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860
- Maps outline state electoral votes
- Tables show major and independent presidential and vice presidential
candidates, popular and electoral votes, and percentages for both
- County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2004
- County map of 2004 Presidential election popular vote
- This is truly wonderful!
- Election
2000@ICPSR
- List of national data sets for election results, exit polls, and
public opinion
- Sample ballots from Florida counties
- A National Election Studies
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation
studies
- Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
- Documentation in Word Perfect format
- Its Guide
to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides
summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public
opinion, 1952 to present
- PoliData
- Presidential election results by state, county and CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT
- Congressional district votes for president since 1992 are available
as free .pdf documents; see the bottom of each state page found at:
http://www.polidata.us/books/default.htm
- United States
Electoral College (NARA)
- Electoral college laws and procedures
- Number of electoral votes per state for the 2000 elections
- State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-1996
- Voting
Behavior: The 2004 Election (UMich Only)
- On-line textbook
with
exercises on using Berkeley's Data Analysis Software to measure the 2004
results and voter characteristics
- Based on the American National Election Study of 2004 from
ICPSR
- Mayoral
Elections Data Base (US Conference of Mayors)
- Lists current year's elections by name of city
- Identifies state, winner, if incumbent, percentage of vote, and month
of election
- Identifies forthcoming election months
- Detroit
News
- Current day's news on national, state, and local politics
- Michigan
Department of State
- State-wide general and primary election results by district beginning
with the 1998 primaries; registered voters
- Election, campaign, and lobby registration laws
- Election districts for the various state offices arranged by
county
- Michigan Elections and Politics (UMich)
- Local coverage of the candidates and election results within the
state
- Federal
and State Election Resources
- Annotated guide to contents of secretaries of state web sites
- Includes voter information, candidate information, election results,
and campaign finances
- Secretary
of State Offices (Political Resources)
- Links to state Secretary of State offices
- Individual web sites often have campaign information and election
results
- Voting
and Registration Data (Census Bureau)
- Sociodemographic characteristics of voters (age, race, sex,
employment, and education status) since 1964
- Does not include who people voted for
- Executive Agency Research (UMich)
- Class guide to researching policy by executive agencies
- Directories, budgets, Congressional testimony, and agency web sites
- Federal Government
Resources on the Web (UMich)
- Bibliographies, indexes, and directories to the Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial branches
- Legislation, laws, regulations, and Supreme Court decisions
- Budget, civil service and grant information
- FirstGov
- Official gateway for the federal government
- Lists of government agencies
- Indexes federal and state government web sites
- Google's Uncle Sam
- Comprehensive search engine for government agency web sites as well as
individual federal government publications
- Almanac
of American Politics (UMich Only)
- Arranged by state and Congressional District
- Detailed political profile of each district as well as demographic
statistics
- Political profiles of individual Members of Congress with brief
election data, lobby group ratings, key votes in the 105th Congress, and
campaign finances
- Paper copy also in Documents Center (JK
1012 .A44) with older issues in Graduate Library stacks
- Congressional Committees (UMich)
- Committee memberships, press releases, publications, and legislation considered
- Congressional Members (UMich)
- Directories of Congress, biographies, campaign finances, lobby group ratings, and opinions
- Indexes to legislation introduced and speeches on the floor of Congress
- Congressional
Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)
- Detailed history of Congress and legislative procedure
- Demographics of Congressmen by occupation, religion, military service, sex and political party but not by race
- Calculate voting alliances between members and on party positions
- Interest group ratings
- CQ
Public Affairs Collection (UMich Only)
- Background information on 22 issue areas
- Includes health, environment, national security, culture, education,
international affairs
- Sections include reprints from books published by CQ Press, historic
documents, articles appearing in CQ Researcher, and legislative
summaries
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional committee hearings, committee prints, reports, and documents since 1789
- Provides full text of many hearings since 1989
- Full text of the Congressional Record since 1985
- Full text of Statutes at Large (laws) since 1789 and the current United States Code (compiled laws)
- Full text of the current Code of Federal Regulations (compiled regulations) and Federal Register (proposed and
new regulations) since 1980
- Publications not available in full text are located in the Documents Center on microfiche or in paper
- Legislative Branch (UMich)
- Numerous directories to Members of Congress and Committees
- Includes e-mail addresses and web sites
- Legislative research tools
- Legislative support agencies
- Legislative Histories in the United States Congress
- Step-by-step guide to legislative histories beginning with the 103rd Congress, 1993
- Description of the legislative process
- Background information, bills, hearings and committee publications, debates, roll call votes
- Sources for current laws and regulations
- Links to related pages on Members, Committees, and public opinion
- Public Opinion on Legislative Issues (UMich)
- Lobby group web sites and ratings
- Links to public opinion polls and Congressional hearings
- President (UMich)
- Links to the current Executive Branch
- White House web site, administrative rules
- Includes availability of current and historical speeches, executive orders, and national security
decisions in various formats
- President
(SUNSITE/LIA)
- Position papers of the Presidential Research Group, American
Political Science Association
- Presidential historic sites
- Links to Presidential Libraries
- Presidential
Job Performance (Roper Center)
- Public opinion polls on President Clinton's job
- Separate charts from Gallup, Yankelovich, ABC, NBC, and CBS rate the
President several times per year since 1993
- Gallup ratings include begin with 1938 and rate president's since
FDR
- Presidents of the United States
(IPL/Summers)
- Extensive web site with pages for each President, Washington to Clinton
- Picture, biographies, election results, first ladies, cabinets,
highlights of administration, historical documents, and links to
related Internet sites
- Special attention paid to links describing historical events and
biographies of cabinet members
- Public Papers of
the President, 1992+ (GPO)
- Presidential speeches and statements issued by the Office of the
Press Secretary on an annual basis
- Declarations, nominations, and executive orders
- Browsable
and searchable
- The Nixon Papers, 1969-74, are available from the Nixon
Foundation
- The Bush Administration papers, 1989-1992, are
available from
the Bush
Presidential Library
- Updated by Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- The paper edition (Graduate Library Stacks J 80. A25) covers 1929-32
(Hoover) and 1945+ (Truman+)
- Presidential Papers, 1929-1992, are available free of charge from the
American
Presidency Project
- Richardson's Compilation of the messages and papers of the
presidents, 1789-1897 is located in Buhr as: J 81 .B96
- White
House Web Site - Current
- White House tours, information about First Family
- Key Presidential documents
documents
- Individual Pages
- Campaign
Money
- Searchable data base of campaign contributions for Presidential and
Congressional candidates beginning in 2000
- Access by candidate, political action committee, or 527
organization
- Information is cross-listed in several ways
- Center for
Public Integrity
- Non-partisan organization promoting ethics in government
- 50 States Project rates states on public disclosure laws
- Research reports on financing presidential and Congressional
elections
- Center for Responsive
Politics
- Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign reform
- Congressional campaign finance filings
- Personal
Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential
candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB
- Open Secrets
- Lobby group campaign contributions to Members of Congress arranged by
industry and separately by member
- Web version in Adobe Acrobat format corresponds to paper version in
Documents Center (JK 1991 .M261)
- Federal Election
Commission
- Summary receipts and disbursements of Presidential and all Congressional
candidates in 1996
- Image files of individual campaign committee reports beginning with
the 1997/98 cycle
- Detailed files with individual contributors for 1993/94 and 1995/96
must be downloaded
- FECInfo (Tony
Raymond)
- 1996 Congressional and Presidential campaign contributions searchable by
name, state, Political Action Committee, or individual
- Special analyses include contributors by occupation or zip code and
candidates receiving the most out-of-state money
- User-friendly interface
- Pig
Book (Citizens Against Government Waste)
- Listing of pork barrel appropriations for by subject and state
- Oinker Awards (most obvious pork) and pork barrel per capita
- Project Vote
Smart
- Campaign finances by industry beginning with the 1994 elections
- Advocacy
Groups by Topic
- Well-annotated paragraphs describe their policy interests
- Links to their respective web sites
- Political
Advocacy Groups (Cal State University)
- Directory of over 350 advocacy groups arranged by name and subject
- Subject listing provides address, phone number, brief description,
and web link if available
- Political
Organization 527 (IRS)
- Searchable or browsable database of political organizations and
action committees
- Photocopy of report with name of contact person, brief purpose, and
expenditures
- Examples of organizations: Dunaskiss for Michigan, Michigan
Association of Health Plans, Michigan Grocers Association FOODPAC
- Registered Federal
Lobbyist Database (Center for Responsive Politics)
- Search by name of lobbyist or lobby group, client, or subject interest
- Data provides name of lobbyists and semiannual dollar amount devoted
to lobbying
- Link to top lobbying firms and spenders from Who's in the
Lobby
- Subject-Oriented
Groups (National Political Index)
Conservative Internet Sites
Issue-Oriented Groups
Liberal Internet
Sites
- CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)
- Interest group ratings by various groups for members of Congress since 1947
- League of
Conservation Voters
- Floor votes and LCV ratings on environmental issues beginning 1993
- Politics in America
- Printed directory located in the Documents Center (JK 1010.P76-Ref.)
- Arranged by state and district
- Political biography, lobby group ratings, major roll call votes
- Project
Vote Smart
- Votes by Members of Congress on major issues by subject with corresponding lobby group
ratings
- Lobby group ratings for some state legislative officials
- Voter
Information Service
- Ratings of House and Senate members by 25 lobby groups, 1989 to
present
- Arranged by State and District; listings can be confusing when
redistricting has occurred
- Women's Voting
Guide
- Compare the voting record of any member of Congress to user's
personal opinion
- Over 300 issues, including children, crime, defense, environment
- Guidestar
(UMich Only)
- Organizations report their lobbying expenditures on Line 85 of IRS
form 990, included for each of the organizations in the database
- Open
Secrets
- Select an overall industry or 527 group from the lefthand side of
the screen
- The result will let you drill down to individual companies
This area is still under development. Please send contributions
to govdocs@umich.edu
Comprehensive
- Ethnic
Majority
- Links to national and state political organizations for African
Americans, Hispanics, and Asians
- List and web links to current African American, Hispanic and Asian
members of Congress
African-Americans
- Cabinet Members
- Through 1998
- Per e-mail messages from Diane Eidelman and Lois Fundis dated February
10, 1999
- Robert Weaver (HUD), Clifford Alexander (Secy of the Army), Jessee
Brown (Veterans Affairs), William Coleman (Transportation), Mike Espy
(Agriculture), Patricia Roberts Harris, Alexis Herman (Labor), Hazel O'Leary
(Energy), Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. (HUD), Rodney Slater
(Transportation), Louis Sullivan (HHS), and Togo West (Veterans
Affairs)
- First GW Bush
- Alphonso Jackson (HUD), Colin Powell (State), Rod Paige (Education)
- Congressional Black
Caucus Foundation
- Description of its mission
- Agenda for its annual conference and issues forum
- Joint Center for Political and
Economic
Studies
- Non-profit organization providing public policy information
on issues
affecting black Americans
- Summaries of selected papers include public opinion polls on
such
topics as race relations, children, black participation in the
Republican
Party
- Full text of annual report
- Latest edition of Black Elected
Officials is 2001
- National
Conference of Black Mayors
- Names of black mayors for cities over 50,000
- Contact the association for smaller cities
Asian Americans
Hispanics
- National
Association of
Latino Elected Officials
- List of Latino candidates for federal, state, and local
elections
- Information about Latino internships, citizenship program, and
annual conference
- Press releases
- Publishes the National Directory of Latino
Elected Officials, available at Michigan State
University
Native Americans
Women
- Center for
American Women and Politics
- Historical data (since 1974) on women elected to state and federal
offices
- Some tables by state or incumbent/challenger status
- Includes winners and losers in the 2000 election by name
- Emily's List
- Web site for pro-choice Democratic women
- Recommended women candidates and directories of women officials
- Statistical on women voters
- Women's Monitor includes national survey results of
women's opinions on the candidates and issues
- Gender Gap
- Names and numbers of women elected to federal and state offices
beginning 1997
- Historical list of women cabinet officers
- Officers in the military by service branch, office, and sex,
beginning 1995
- Women
and Politics
- Annotated guide to web sites and printed bibliographies on the web
- Includes biographies, newsletters, organizations, and research sites
- Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries
- Women in
Congress (Clerk of the House)
- Lists of all women serving in the House and Senate since 1917
- Brief biographies and fact lists (who succeeded husband, who married
another Congressman, etc.
- The web site is updated continuously
- There is also a book
form copy of the same work
- Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
- Indexes books, journal articles, and theses on women in politics since 1948
- Approach by keyword, subject, country, and date
- Bibliographic citation only
- Women's Voting
Guide
- Compare the voting record of any member of Congress to user's
personal opinion
- Over 300 issues, including children, crime, defense, environment
Selective titles only.
Political Science/Newspapers provides primary links to the news media.
- Academic Universe (UMich Only)
- Full text of newspapers around the world since the mid-1980s
- Use Guided News Search
- The General News/Major Newspapers has the full text of about 30 U.S. newspapers
- Use the U.S. News for local newspapers
- All Politics (Time/CNN/CQ)
- Daily news coverage of U.S. politics
- Issues matrix includes Time/CNN public opinion polls
- Archived coverage of elections since 1996 includes primary/caucus calendars, exit polls, and results
- Blue Eagle
Columnists
- Links to commentaries from 325 political columnists and political
cartoons
- Cable News Network
(CNN)
- News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text
of relevant documents
- Recent material and election coverage archived in subject groups
- Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
- Capitol Watch On-Line
- Daily stories on U.S. politics
- Links to major political magazines, news magazines and
newspapers
- Christian Science Monitor
- Daily newspaper with the full text of lead articles (U.S.,
international, cultural, crossword)
- Archive back to 1980 searchable by subject
- Documents in the News (UMich)
- Government documents related to major news items
- 1996 examples include Medical Care Reform, Welfare Reform, Whitewater, White House Travel Office
- News Media (UMich)
- Annotated links to U.S. and foreign newspapers and magazines with political coverage
- Serves as the Documents Center's primary web page for news coverage
- Newsbank's
American Newspapers
- Full text of the Detroit News and Lansing State Journal since 1999
- Full text of the Grand Rapids Press since
- Newslink
- Lists online newspapers by state and foreign country
- Includes foreign language papers
- Opinion
Pages
- Full text of opinion and news commentary from around the world
- Separate sections for politics, business, technology, sports, health,
and arts
- Searchable by keyword or browsable by geography
- Proquest Newsstand (UMich Only)
- Indexes 350 newspapers worldwide and provides the full text of 2002
- Roll Call
- Several articles on todays Congressional news; archive only by
subscription
- Extensive policy briefings on a current topic (e.g. appropriations)
changed every few weeks
- Washington
Post Politics
- News and analysis of national and state politics
- Special reports on hot topics
- Campaign calendars, candidate assessments
- Public opinion polls
Selective titles only. Primary coverage of journals appears under Politcal Science/Periodicals.
- American Political
Science Review
- Congressional
Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Intellectual
Capital
- Non-partisan weekly periodical on public policy issues
- Sample topics since June 1996 include education, welfare reform,
chemical weapons, Internet policy, and America's cities
- Interactive cyberpoll with results and selected comments
- JSTOR
Project (UMich/Mellon)
- Project to convert the full text of historical and economics journals
to digital format
- As of August 2000, political science journals included:
- American Journal of International Law 1907-2004
- American Journal of Political Science 1973-2002
- Midwest Journal of Political Science 1957-1972
- American Political Science Review 1906-2000
- International Organization 1947-1998
- Journal of Politics 1939-2000
- Philosophy and Public Affairs 1971-1998
- Political Science Quarterly 1886-1999
- Proceedings of the American Political Science Association
1904-1913
- Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-1995
- World Politics 1948-1995
- Keyword indexing may be limited to text, abstract, author, article
title or journal title
- National Journal (UMich
Only)
- National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with
some reference to current legislation
- Full text since 1977
- Political Science
Quarterly
- Articles by well-known scholars on U.S. and international politics
- Full text of the current lead article and abstracts of all
articles beginning 1976
- Full text on JSTOR through 1999 and
on ProQuest
since 1994
- Time
Magazine
- Lead articles in the latest issues
- Historical coverage of important public events, such as the federal
shutdown, election polls, Bosnia
- U.S. News Online
(U.S. News and World Report)
- Articles on current United States politics and elections
- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
- Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western
European languages
- Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
- Sample search: Russia near (Kosovo or Yugoslavia)
- Searches may be recombined
- Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the
article is in English
- If the article is in another language, the title is translated into
English but the abstract is in French
- Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call
number and location
- Printed copy: International Political Science Abstracts,
1951- (Ref. JA 36 .I6)
- Public Affairs
Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of
Nations, and State Governments
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Social Sciences Index, 1974- (Z 7163 .S68)
- Interdisciplinary subject index to the social sciences
- Social
Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich Only)
- Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword,
journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
- Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation
Indexes
- Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks,
1956- (Z 7163 .S67)
- Connect to MIRLYN
to identify library location and call number of book or article
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes political science journals, monographs, dissertations, and
book reviews since 1975 and provides abstracts
- Search by keyword, author, title; delimited by date
- Use SFX button to link to full text or interlibrary loan
- Images of
American Political History
- Collection of 500 public domain images (black and white and color) of
American history since colonial days
- Includes Presidents, maps of Presidential election results, slavery
and civil rights
- Searchable or browsable by time period and subject category
- Ad Spotlight
(UMich Only)
- Issue ads and campaign ads for House, Senate, Governor and President
- Can be accessed in Real Audio or Real Video
- Searchable and browsable since 1998
- Political
Advertising (Univ. Iowa)
- Excellent annotated webliography
- Links to papers analyzing political advertising and web sites with
examples
- Political Advertising Center (Univ.
of Oklahoma)
- Archive of political commercials for radio since 1932 and for
television since 1952
- Two newsletters describe the collection
- See also Campaigns and Candidates/Advertising
- Political
Consultants (CQ)
- Links to current political consultant web sites
- Political Resources
- Commercial firm providing lists of political consultants,
particularly for polling and campaign
- Web site has selected links to consulting services
- The corresponding Political Resource
Directory is available in the Documents Center as: JK 2283
.P76
- VoteNet
- Political resources for the candidate
- Includes books, think tanks, political strategists and pollsters
- Issues research (abortion, affirmative action, gun control, etc)
- Democratic National
Convention
- Boston, Massachusetts, July 26-29, 2004
- Videos, transcripts and pictures of the major speeches
- Green Party of the U.S.A. National Convention
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 23-28, 2004
- Libertarian Party National
Convention
- Atlanta, Georgia, May 27-31, 2004
- Republican National
Convention
- August 30-September 2, 2004
- Speeches and videos of the week
- National Party Convention
Proceedings at the University of Michigan Library
- List of Democratic and Republican convention proceedings since 1832
- Refers to paper and microfilm call numbers and URLs as available
- Also includes notes for inter-library loan or the Vanderbilt
Television Archive
- These are organizations designed for a specific policy or for
electing a specific candidate
- Political
Organization 527 (IRS)
- Searchable or browsable database of political organizations and
action committees
- Photocopy of report with name of contact person, brief purpose, and
expenditures
- Examples of organizations: Dunaskiss for Michigan, Michigan
Association of Health Plans, Michigan Grocers Association FOODPAC
Guides
- Public
Policy Matrix
- Defines political aspects of legislative and regulatory process in
chart form
- Sources for identifying the problem, the solution, influences on
Congress and the Executive Branch, and solution implementation
- Geared toward class assignments; can be used alone or in conjunction
with other teaching materials
Public Access Resources
- All Politics (Time/CNN/CQ)
- Daily news coverage of U.S. politics
- Issues matrix includes Time/CNN public opinion polls
- Almanac of Policy
Issues
- Extensive web site on nine policy areas: criminal justice, culture and
society, economics, education, environment, government operations, health,
social welfare, and world affairs
- Each section is divided into 4-10 subtopics
- Provides a non-partisan back to the issues
- Links to articles on all sides of the subject as well as primary
documents and related government agencies, think tanks, and
organizations
- National Center for Policy Analysis
- Both sides of numerous policy issues divided into 25 broad categories
- Often a best source for high school debate topics
- National Issues Forum
- Full text articles on both sides of national public policy issues
- Sample topics include education, social security, taxes, foreign
relations, and gun control
- Each topic provides and overview, links to articles, candidate
opinions, statistics, and primary sources
- Policy Agendas Project
(University of Washington)
- Determine the amount of attention government gave to 19 major
topics, 220
subtopics, or a section of the budget, 1946-2002
- Filters allow you to choose topics and the type of material (budget,
Congressional hearings, Presidential executive orders, laws, New York
Times
articles, CQ Almanac articles, and the Gallup Most Important Problem
Index
- Results yield data and graphs
- Additional dataset tools available
- Policy Archive
(Indiana University/Purdue)
- Hundreds of public policy briefings sponsored by foundations and the
Congressional Research Service
- Browsable and searchable
- Speakout
- Subject approach to policy issues with primary documents
- Encourages users to interact with web site
University of Michigan Resources
- CQ Researcher
- Large number of debate topics ranging from abortion to nanotechnology to Zaire
- Each topic provides a summary, background information, and bibliography
- Congressional
Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- CQ
Public Affairs Collection (UMich Only)
- Background information on 22 issue areas
- Includes health, environment, national security, culture, education,
international affairs
- Sections include reprints from books published by CQ Press, historic
documents, articles appearing in CQ Researcher, and legislative
summaries
Related Documents Center Web Pages
- Chemical/Biological Disarmament
- Class assignment guide to chemical and biological warfare and treaty issues
- Documents in the News
- Text of government documents making headline news
- Among the 1996 news stories were welfare and health care reform
- Health Care Politics
- Class assignment guide to health care reform
- Includes position papers of numerous research organizations as well as legislative links
- Political Science Think Tanks
- Think tanks and research organizations analyzing U.S. domestic and foreign
policy
- Think tank web sites often provide issue briefings
- United States Foreign Policy (UMich)
- Annotated guide to current and historical foreign policy sources
- Periodicals, newspapers, government documents, and archival
materials
- Paper, microform, and web resources
- State Governments (UMich)
- Links to web sites for the 50 states by subject or state
- Intergovernmental organizations, such as the National Conference of
State Legislatures
- Guides to local government web sites and organizations
- Michigan Government (UMich)
- Annotated links to the Governor's Office and executive agency web sites
- Legislative and judicial resources
- Michigan politics and statistics
- Political Science Statistics (UMich)
- Data archives on politics and elections
- Public opinion polls
- Statistics of military strength world-wide
- Statistical Resources on the Web (UMich)
- Extensive annotated links to data on the Internet
- Demographics, economics, education, health, housing, science, transportation, and weather
- Includes Census, cost-of-living and employment data
Quick Jumps:
Grace York, Political Science Librarian
Christina Campbell, Documents Assistant, August 2000
Jennifer Weiss, Documents Assistant, August 2004
University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html
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