Websites
General
Internet guide to Governments of the world: http://www.adminet.com/world/gov/
United Nations: http://www.un.org/english/
Social Science Information Gateway (Politics): http://www.sosig.ac.uk/politics/
Political Science Resources: http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
United Nations: http://www/un.int
UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org
UK sites
UK Parliament: http://www.parliament.uk/
UKOnline.gov:
http://www.ukonline.gov.uk/online/ukonline/welcome;jsessionid=0001L1CTW5IAAB4
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Labour Party: http://www.labour.org.uk/
Conservative Party: http://www.conservatives.com/
Liberal Democrats: http://www.libdems.org.uk/
UK Devolved Legislatures: http://www.parliament.uk/parliament/devleg.htm
Argentina sites
Presidency of the Argentine Nation: http://www.presidencia.gov.ar
Chamber of Deputies: http://www.diputados.gov.ar
Senate (incl. Constitution): http://www/senado.gov.ar
Evita Peron Research Foundation: http://www.evitaperon.org
Buenos Aires Herald (English-language): http://www.buenosairesherald.com
World Factbook 2000: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ar.html
Australia sites
Federal Government: http://fed.gov.au/KSP/
Newspapers on the Internet: http://www.nla,gov.au/oz/npapers.html
Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/index.html
Bangladesh sites
Official Government Website: http://www.bangladeshgov.org
Bangladesh Observer: http://www.bangladesh.net/observer
The New Nation: http://www.nation-online.com
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Brazil sites
Government Web: http://www.brazil.gov.br
Political Resources for Brazil:
http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/pdba/Countries/countries.cfmID=43
US State Department Background Notes:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/index.cfm?docid=1972
World Factbook 2000: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/br/html
O Globo: http://oglobo.globo.com
A Folha de São Paulo: http://www.uol.com.br/fsp
InfoBrazil (in English): http://www.infobrazil.com
Brazil has no English-language newspaper online
Canada sites
Government: http://canada.gc.ca
Canadian Government Information: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/4/index-e.html
People’s republic of china
Government information: http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
People’s Daily online: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/home.html
EU sites
Official EU site: http://www.europa.eu.int/
European Voice (European news from The Economist): http://www.europeanvoice.com/
European Union Studies Association: http://www.eustudies.org/
France sites
The President’s Office: http://www.elysee.fr/ang/index.shtm
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.diplomatie.fr/index.gb.html
French News in English: http://www.french-news.com/index.htm
Germany sites
German Government: http://www.bundesregierung.de/english/01/newsf.html
Chancellor’s Office: http://www.bundeskanzler.de/kanzlerenglisch/home.html
Social Democratic Party: http://www.spd.de/english/
Christian Democratic Union: http://www.cdu.de/
German News in English: http://www.dwelle.de/english/Welcome.html
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Ghana sites
Government of Ghana: http://www.ghana.gov.gh
Webstar (links): http://www.webstar.com.gh
Country study: http://rs6.loc.gov/frd/cs/ghtoc.html
CIA Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gh.html
New Patriotic Party (NPP): http://www.nppghana.com
United Ghana Movement: http://www.ugmghana.org
Ghanaian Chronicle: http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com
India sites
India Web: http://www.india-web.com/
Site directory: www.dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries/india/government/politics
Indian National Congress Party: http://soniagandhi.org
BJP: http://www.bjp.org
Times of India: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/pagehome.htm
The Hindu: http://www.the-hindu.com
Ireland sites
Portal: http://www.askireland.com
Irish State: http://www.irlgov.ie
Swift Guide: http://swift.kerna.com
Fianna Fail: http://www.fiannafail.ie
Fine Gael: http://www.finegael.com
Irish Times: http://www.ireland.com
Irish Independent: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent
Italy sites
Government: http://www.governo.it/
Parliament: http://www.parlamento.it/
Japan sites
Japan News Stand: http://www.asiadragons.com/japan/news/
Japan Times: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Asahi Shimbun (in English): http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
Yomiuri Shimbun (in English): http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
Nikkei Net: http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp
Mexico sites
Presidency: http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
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Chamber of Deputies: http://www.cameradediputados.gob.mx
Senate: http://www.senado.gob.mx
Excelsior: http://www.excelsior.com.mx
The News (in English): http://www.thenewsmexico.com
Unomasuno: http://www.unomasuno.com.mx/panta.asp
Agora Net: http://www.agoranet.mx
National Action Party (PAN): http://www.pan.org.mx/Index2.asp
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): http://www.pri.org.mx
US State Department Background Notes:
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/mexico_0899_bgn.html
World Factbook 2000: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mx/html
Zapatistas (index to information in English):
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/zapatista.html
Nigeria sites
Government: http://www.nigeriagov.org
Governments on the Web: http://www.gksoft.com
Nigeria.com: http://www.nigeria.com/
The Guardian: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com
Post Express: http://www.postexpress.com
Russia sites
Russian Government: http://www.gov.ru/main/page8.html
Russia online: http://www.rol.ru/index.htm
Moscow Times (English-language): http://www.moscowtimes.ru/
Pakistan sites
Government Official Website: http://www.pak.gov.pk
Dawn (newspaper): http://www.dawn.com
Herald: http://www.dawn.com/herald
Sierra Leone sites
Government: http://www.sierra-leone.sl
Sierra leone Web: http://www.sierra-leone.org
CIA Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sl..html
UN Peacekeeping: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/unamsil/body_unamsil.htm
National Unity Party: http://www.nupsl.com
Sierra Leone News: http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews.html
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Sri Lanka sites
Sri Lankan Government: http://www.priu.gov.lk/Default.htm
Country Study (Library of Congress): http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/lktoc.html
Infoscope (Press cuttings): http://www.is.lk/is/spot
Daily News: http://www.dailynews.lk
The Island: http://www.island.lk
Spain sites
Government: http://www.la-moncloa.es/
South Africa sites
The President’s Office: http://www.gov.za/president/
African National Congress (ANC): http://www.anc.org.za/
The National Party: http://www.natweb.co.za/
Other Africa sites
World African Network: http://www.africana.com/Key/World_African_Network.htm
Botswanan President: http://www.gov.bw/government/ministry_of_state_president.html
Zambian State House: http://www.statehouse.gov.zm/
Tanzania: http://www.tanzania-online.gov.uk/gov/rais.htm
Other former communist countries
Communism: The end of an era. BBC Special:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/iron_curtain/default.htm
Bulgaria: http://www.government.bg/index_e.html
Romania: http://domino.kappa.ro/guvern/ehome.nsf/
Hungary: http://www.meh.hu/default.htm
Czech Republic: http://www.czech.cz/
Slovakia: http://www.government.gov.sk/
President of Poland: http://www.president.pl/
Ukraine: http://www.brama.com/ua-gov/
President of Belarus: http://www.belarus.net/presiden/
President of Estonia: http://www.president.ee/eng/
Latvia: http://www.president.lv/eng_def.html
Lithuania: http://www.president.lt/en/
Kazakhstan: http://www.president.kz/
Azerbaijan: http://www.president.az/
Georgia: http://www.presidpress.gov.ge/
Albania: http://president.gov.al/
Latvia: http://www.president.lv/eng_def.html
Lithuania: http://www.president.lt/en/
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Taiwan
President’s Office: http://www.oop.gov.tw/index_e.html
US sites
The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Democrats: http://www.democrats.org/index.html
Republicans: http://www.rnc.org/
Public policy: http://www.policy.com/
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com
New York Times: http://www.newyorktimes.com
Chapter 1
Journal of Comparative Politics: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/jcp/index.HTM
Political Studies Association: http://www.psa.ac.uk/
Marxism
Marxism page: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html
Encyclopaedia of Marxism: http://www.marxists.org/glossary/
In Defence of Marxism: http://www.marxist.com/
Rational choice theory
Essay by John Scott (Essex): http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~scottj/socscot7.htm
Chapter 2
Map of Democracy: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/govt2000.htm
World Forum on Democracy: http://www.fordemocracy.net/
European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity: http://www.europeanforum.net/
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance:
http://www.idea.int/index.htm
UK Citizens Online Democracy: http://www.democracy.org.uk/
Constitutional Laws from different States of the World: http://www.uniwuerzburg.de/law/index.html
Parliaments on the web: http://www.ipu.org/english/parlweb.htm
Elections around the World: http://www.electionworld.org/main.htm
Chapter 3
International Forum on Globalization: http://www.ifg.org/
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International Monetary Fund (IMF): http://www.imf.org
IMF report on Globalization: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
Website devoted to Social, Economic and Political change: http://gsociology.icaap.org/
World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/
WTOWatch.Org: http://www.wtowatch.org/
Chapter 4
Academy of Marketing (Political Marketing Special Interest Group):
http://www.stir.ac.uk/Departments/Management/Marketing/academy/amsig/polit.htm
Seventh Seal (gateway to ideologically oriented sites):
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/sseal/index.htm
Ideologies explained by cows (irreverent humour):
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/h_cow_government.html
European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Extremism and
Democracy: http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/ecpr/
World Socialist Website: http://www.wsws.org/
Anti-Nazi League: http://www.anl.org.uk/
Liberal International: http://www.liberal-international.org/
Institute for Anarchist Studies: http://flag.blackened.net/ias/
Chapter 5
EDIRC site of political economics links: http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EDIRC/pubecon.html
Glossary of Political Economy terms:
http://www.duc.auburn.edu/~johnspm/glossind.html
World Currencies and Abbreviations: http://www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/
Brief History of Money: http://www.mondex.ca/eng/facts/historyofmoney.cfm?pg=facts
World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org
UN Development Programme: http://www/undp.int
Chapter 6
University of British Columbia Archive on Political Parties and Elections:
http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/electoral.html
Political Parties, Interest Groups and Other Social Movements:
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/parties.htm
Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Europe: http://www.ssees.ac.uk/centrnat.htm
Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism:
http://sockom.helsinki.fi/ceren/English/index.htm
Communism: The end of an era. BBC Special:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/iron_curtain/default.ht
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Democratization of Transitional Societies in Eastern and Central Europe:
http://www.democratisation.org/
Democratization (Journal): http://www.frankcass.com
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Chapter 7
Links: http://www.psr.heele.ac.uk/election.htm
Wilfried Derksen’s Elections Round the World (calendar and archive of results):
http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/calendar.htm
Election News – Klipsan: http://www.klipsan.com/elecnews.htm
Election Watch (Journal of Democracy):
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/election_watch
UK Electoral Commission: http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/
US Electoral College: http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/index.html
Journal of Electoral Studies: http://www.psci.unt.edu/es/
Represent Democracy. (Information on electoral systems and the nature of democracy):
http://www.represent.org.uk/
National Commission on Federal Election Reform (US):
http://www.reformelections.org/
Electoral Reform Society (UK): http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/
Chapter 8
Rulers of all countries: http://rulers.org
The Bureaucracy Club (Satire!):
http://www.improb.com/projects/bureaucracy/bureaucracy-club-top.html
Power and Bureaucracy: http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/~jarvis/bola/power/bureau.html
University of British Columbia Archive on Political Parties and Elections:
http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/electoral.html
UK Devolved Legislatures: http://www.parliament.uk/parliament/devleg.htm
Chapter 9
Political Parties, Interest Groups and Other Social Movements:
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/parties.htm
New Social Movement Network: http://www.interweb-tech.com/nsmnet/
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
CorpWatch: http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/grassroots/
No Logo (Naomi Kline): http://www.nologo.org/
It’s An Honour (Australian Honours System): http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/
Chapter 10
FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/
CIA: http://www.cia.gov/
MI5: http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
Map of Military Governments: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/miltgovt.htm
The Military Governments of Pakistan: http://www.mughal.net/englishbook/07.htm
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Chapter 11
The Revolutions of 1989 (US National Security Archive):
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991105/index.html
Communism: The end of an era. BBC Special:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/iron_curtain/default.ht
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Democratisation of Transitional Societies in Eastern and Central Europe:
http://www.democratisation.org/
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