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- Foreign
and International Materials (LSU)
- Extensive web links to foreign and international politics arranged by
world region
- Economic Intelligence Unit Country
Indicators (UMich Only)
- Time series of data since 1990 with forecasts for five years for 60
countries
- Includes various political risk factors for investment
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web
(UMich)
- Links to foreign government web sites
- U.S. information about foreign countries
- Institute for the Study of Conflict,
Idelogy, and Policy (Boston University)
- Analyzes destabilizing factors in conflict-prone societies,
especially Russia and the CIS
- Full text of lectures and its Editorial Digest
- Abstracts of articles and reviews
- Legislatures
of the World (Wikipedia)
- List of individual countries with the party composition of their
Parliaments
- History procedures, books and links
- Mapping Policy Preferences
- Set of books and CD-ROMS by Hans Dieter Klingemann
- Measures the life of political parties and changes in platforms or
manifestos in Eastern Europe
- Volume 1 located in the Undergraduate LIbrary (JF 1525 .P6 M251
2001); volume 2 on order for Graduate Library, January 2007
- Non-Western
Sources of Political Issues (SUNY-Binghamton)
- Covers conflict resolution, environment, and human rights
- Each subject subdivided by region of the world and individual web
links covering that subject
- Political Resources
on the Net (Italy)
- Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country
- Searchable by country or world region
- Web site has outstanding coverage and merits its high ratings
- Project DIAL
(Asian
Development Bank)
- Numerous links to laws, legislation and parliaments arranged by
country
- Extends beyond the Asian continent
- Risk
Briefing/Economic Intelligence Unit (UMich Only)
- Quarterly assessment of political, economic, foreign trade, legal,
and regulatory risks in 150 countries
- Ratings supported by extensive written analysis
- Canadian
Politics on the Web
- Describes the system of government, elections, political parties and
some of the major issues in textbook format
- Excellent links to polling data
- Canadian
Government and Politics (UBC)
- Extensive, annotated links to Federal and Provincial government sites
- Elections, foreign relations, and political issues
- Canadian Public
Policy Resources (Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel)
- Annotated links to Canadian public policy web sites
- Subjects include euthanasia, first nation, firearms, foreign policy,
health, information technology
- Centre for the Study
of
Democracy (Queen's University)
- Data archive of public opinion polls since the 1970s
- Use doesn't require authorization
- Guide to
Canadian Political Resources (Natl Library of
Canada)
- Annotated guide to Canadian political Internet sites, primarily from
universities
- Unannoated bibliography of printed books
- Political Resources
on the Net
- Links to parties, movements, elections, political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites
- Politics
Watch
- News site with current political events and public opinion
- See also Quebec Politics
Canadian
Regions
- Lobby For
Cyprus
- Lobby group for the reunification of Cyprus
- Description of the group's various campaigns
- Elections to the European Parliament held June 10-13, 1999
- Elections
in the European Parliament
- Current representation by country with number of seats held by
individual parties
- Political Parties
- Front
National (Kessler)
- Annotated list of web sites, books, and articles on the Front
National and political extremism
- Includes a copy of the manifesto
- Hamas
- Hamas is the resistance movement to Israeli occupation of Palestine
- History of Palestine, assessment of Israeli intent, and
news
- Russian
Politics (Russia Net)
- Biographies of cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament (Duma)
- Voting for parties and candidates in the 1995 and 1996 elections
- Russian constitution, map of administrative divisions, ethnic
composition
- Information is dated as of 2000
- Vladivostok
News
- English-language newspaper of the Russian far east
- Political and business news with candid editorials
- Archived since December 1995 with a search engine
- Links to the dail version
| Top Sources |
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Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook
(Ref.
JQ 38 .E44 2001) |
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Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook (Docs.
JF
1001 .E365 2005) |
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Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook (Ref. JQ
1879
.A5
E435 1999) |
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Caramani, Danielle. Elections in Western Europe since 1815. (Ref.
JN
94
.A95 C28 2000) |
- Adam Carr's Election
Archive
- Massive listings for each country include online election results
and election district maps
- Most data begins in the mid-1990s but some dates back much further
- Use the alphabetic index at the top for the most comprehensive
approach
- Administration
and Cost of Elections Project (UN)
- Approximately 1800 documents analyzing the cost of elections
- Subject areas include electoral systems, legislative frameworks,
voter education and registration, parties and candidates and
vote counting
- Angus Reid
Global Monitor Election Tracker
- Substantial summaries of national elections within the coming year
- Analysis, names of candidates and recent results
- Database of news articles on election issues
- Bibliography
of Books on Campaign Finance in Other Nations
- Central
Eurasia Project
- Profiles of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
- Country sections include background, travel, economic, environmental,
demographic and political information
- Central Eurasian Elections includes the latest election news,
political party information, and links to related sources
- Election Resources
on the Internet (Alvarez-Rivera)
- Extensive list of countries with their election web sites
- Current foreign election news
- Election
World
- Schedule of Parliamentary and Presidential elections by date
- Election results and statistics by name of country
- Elections
(Social Science Information Gateway)
- Internet books, data sets, journals, news, and government web sites
- Worldwide coverage with separate coverage of elections by world
regions, countries, electoral systems, and woman suffrage
- All entries are richly annotated
- Elections
(University of Keele)
- Comprehensive links to election information and results
- Arranged by country
- Europa World Yearbook, 1958-
- Annual publication with detailed economic and political descriptions of each
country in the world
- Directory section gives the election vote totals and number of seats in each
country's parliament for the most current election
- Series located in the Graduate Library stacks: D2.E92
- European
Election Results (Princeton)
- Links to the lowest level of election results (such as precincts)
for several European countries
- European Parliament
- European
Parliamentary Elections 1999 (EU)
- Elections to the European Parliament held June 10-13, 1999
- Electoral laws and candidates by country in pre-election section
- Election statistics by country and biographies of members
- European
Parliament Composition
- Current representation by country with number of seats held by
individual parties
- Political Parties
- International Almanac of Electoral History
- Total votes and number of seats in the lower houses of parliament for most
countries in the world
- Time series generally date from 1900 to 1989
- By Thomas T. Mackie and Richard Rose
- 1991 edition in Documents Center: JF 1001 .M175
- 1981 edition available through ICPSR as Study No. 8247
- International Foundation
for Election Systems
- Complete coverage of Russian elections in English and Russian
- Includes election laws, results, and documents from both observers
and the Central Committee for Elections
- Links to a small number of IFES and USAID sponsored web sites for
elections in Central European countries, including Bosnia and the
Ukraine
- International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- Articles and guidance on election issues for new democracies
- Subjects include voter and candidate registration, voting technology,
counting ballots, campaign finance
- Country data on voter turnout
- Latin American
Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources (UCSD)
- Quotations from scholarly sources providing a chronology of
election developments and data in the Caribbean countries of Latin
American since approximately 1800
- See Nohlen's Elections in the Americas (Doc. Cen. JF 1001
.E365) for additional statistics
- Latin
American Political Data Base (Georgetown)
- Electoral laws and election data from Latin American countries
- Lijphart Election
Archives (UCSD)
- Extensive links to 350 national legislation elections in 26 countries
- Includes Internet, print, and magnetic tape sources
- NationMaster
- Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of
social, economic and cultural statistics
- Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate
- Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top
100 to the bottom 5
- Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the
world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle
East
- Parliaments
of the World (IPU)
- List of all countries with a parliamentary system
- Links to their web sites if available
- PARLINE
provides basic parliamentary and
electoral information (e.g. constituencies, voter qualifications) for all
countries as well as the latest election results (voter turnout;
statistics on elected officials by party, profession, sex, and age;
textual analysis
- Political
Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
(University of Essex)
- Election and campaign finance laws of individual East European
countries
- Election results since 1990
- Constituent and candidate data in SPSS format
Individual Countries
- Canada
- Elections
- Starting point for links to 2000 Canadian elections
- Links to parties, candidates, platforms
- Background information on Canadian electoral system
- Elections
Canada
- Highlights of the 1996 Canadian Elections Act, its changes on
campaigns and voter registration
- Results of the November 27, 2000 general elections -available after
polls close at 10:00PM Eastern time
- On-line voter registration for Canadian citizens living outside
Canada
- Czech Election
Server, 1996
- Candidates, parties, and results of House and Senate elections since 1996
- Multilingual text, including English
- Germany
- German
Elections 1998 (CNN)
- Articles on the issues, parties and candidates
- Gerhard Schoeder, Social Democrat, defeated Helmut Kohl
- Election results of the Bundestag by party
- Articles from Der Speigel
- Great Britain
- Elections
and Referenda (University of Keele)
- Links to BBC and other major web sites with election results and articles
- India Votes
- News coverage of 1998 elections in India
- Candidates, parties, and leaders for the nation and states
- Reference statistics and public opinion polls
- Iran
- Israel 1999
- Election on May 17 between Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu (Likud)
and Ehud Barak (Labour)
- Runoff could be held on June 1
- Israel
Elections (Political Resources)
- List of web sites covering Israeli elections since 1996
- Pictures of prime minister candidates
- Links for the most current elections are more likely to work than
those from previous years
- Israelwire
- Full text of multiple news articles per day
- Jerusalem
Post
- Political biographies of the candidates, political party
descriptions, the issues, and the Israeli electoral process
- Daily news articles
- Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
- Election procedures and candidate requirements
- Malta Election
Data
- Describes the single-transferrable vote system
- Voter registration and votes case since 1921
- Considerable data on election results since 1921
- Party composition of parliament and changes
- Current data on local election results
- Mexican Elections
- Mexico
Elections
- Election results since 1961 for parliamentary offices
- Election laws
- Part of the Latin American Political Database
- Mexican Elections, 2000
- Background
- Presidential elections on July 1-2, 2000
- Vincente Fox (National Action Party or PRN) toppled Francisco
Labastida (Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI) to become the
first person elected president outside the ruling party in 71 years
- Federal Electoral
Institute
- Expected to have complete election results in
Spanish
- Web site down on evening of July 3,
2000
- Institutional Revolutionary Party
- Party platform
- Candidates for President and governor
- Text in Spanish
- National Action
Party
- Primarily its legislative agenda
- Text in
Spanish
- Vincente Fox Campaign
Site
- Biography of the candidate, campaign news and videos, policies
- Text in Spanish
- Palestine Elections
- Central Elections
Commission-Palestine
- Election law, information for voters, and maps of election districts
- Election results by district for the 1996 general elections, 2005
presidential, and 2006 parliamentary elections
- Russian Elections
- Russian
Elections - 1996
- Biographies and speeches of Presidential
candidates for June 16, 1996 election
- Numerous public opinion polls and current
analyses
- Links to other election sites
- Russian Elections - 2000
- Presidential
Election Rules (Russia Today)
- Candidate qualifications, voting rules, regulations on runoff if
necessary
- Russia's
Vote for President (BBC)
- Feature stories on the elections and Vladimir Putin's campaign
- Analysis of the various power brokers in Russian politics
- Russia Votes
- Latest election results for President and the Duma
- Public opinion polls on the elections
- Also includes the latest polls on individual well-being, the nation,
Chechnya, and international relations
- Vladimir
Putin
- Scotland - 1999
- South
African Elections - 1999
- Thabo Mbeki of the African National Congress won the June 1999
elections to replace Nelson Mandela
- Archived news stories on the elections and links to political
parties
- Taiwan Elections
- Background
- Chen Shui-bian, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, was
elected as Taiwan's President on March 18, 2000
- He supports Taiwan's independence against worldwide pressure for one
China
- Taiwan
Headlines
- Government newspaper written in English
- Profiles of the parties and candidates
- News and analysis
- Links to related web pages
- Welsh
Elections (BBC)
- Members of the new Welsh Parliament
- News stories on the May elections
- Extensive links to military web sites arranged by country
- Also includes excerpts from the U.S. Army Area Handbook series and
native laws governing the military
- Annotated links to U.S. military and military academy web sites
- Extensive links to foreign governments and foreign government
military web sites
- Annotated links to military data
- Includes summaries of the SIPRI Yearbook
- Links to U.S. intelligence and military intelligence web pages as
well as selected web pages of foreign countries
- Selected declassified documents and journal articles from Covert
Action Quarterly
- Extensive links to armed forces and foreign affairs departments
around the world, contemporary conflicts, and military history
- Also includes international relations, peace networks, and military
biographies
- Analyzes world political parties by broad measures such as goal
orientation, political alliances, frequency of meetings, factionalism
- Political
Parties: A
Cross National Survey is the full text of a 1980 book that
compares 158 parties in 53 countries by overall measures and describes
them individually
- Project run by Kenneth Janda of Northwestern University
- Extensive links to political party web sites by country
- Zipped spreadsheet of political risks for individual countries,
1984-97
- Includes measures on corruption, rule of law, bureaucratic quality,
ethnic tensions, repudiation of government contracts, and
exappropriation risks
- This is updated through 2004 by Documents Center Software Do12
Risk
Briefing (Economic Intelligence Unit) - UMich Only
- Political risk for 60 countries on a monthly or quarterly level
since 2002
- Factors include: Overall assessment
Security risk
Political stability risk
Government effectiveness risk
Legal & regulatory risk
Macroeconomic risk
Foreign trade & payments risk
Financial risk
Tax policy risk
Labour market risk
Infrastructure risk
- Risktracker is a separate program allowing you to manipulate data
using spreadsheets
- UN body with country reports on the progress of gender equality
- Includes information about women's participation in their respective
parliaments
- Ranks countries on percent of women in professional, managerial, or
Parliamentary positions as well as earned income
- Part of 2006 UNDP Human Development
Report
Gender
Statistics (UN Economic Commission for Europe)
- Section on Public Life and Decision Making provides statistics on
males and females as members of parliament, cabinet ministers, municipal
councils, heads of universities, and journalists
- Data for individual European countries
- Covers various periods, 1980+
Political
Handbook of the World (JF 37 .P82)
- Indicates which cabinet ministers are women in each country
beginning 1993
- Bibliography of printed books, journal articles, biographies and
reports on women in politics worldwide since 1948
- Searchable by a combination of author, journal, controlled subject
vocabulary, country, language, and type of material
- The full text of the articles are not on the web but the data base is
extensive (e.g. numerous articles on women's political participation in
Africa)
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Christina Campbell, Documents Assistant, June 2000
Grace York, Political Science Librarian
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant, June 2002
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