Bruce Peabody's Prelaw, Legal Studies, and Politics Homepage

Professor Bruce Peabody's
Links for Politics

The following site contains a list of websites and links that may be of use to students and researchers seeking information about politics. For a listing of law-related websites please click here or go to our Prelaw and Legal Studies Home Page.

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Webpages & Links
POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/ (important texts of American politics)

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
General Information

http://www.loc.gov/ (Library of Congress)

http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/ (guide to U.S. federal government sites)

http://www.fec.gov/ (Federal Election Commission)

http://fic.info.gov/

Legislative

http://www.house.gov (U.S. House of Representatives)

http://www.senate.gov (U.S. Senate)

http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Thomas Search Engine)

http://congress.org (keep track of your representative and legislation)

Executive

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ (White House)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Cabinet (cabinet secretaries and departments)

http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html

http://www.state.gov (webpage of the State Department)

http://www.os.dhhs.gov (Health and Human Services)

http://www.bog.frb.fed.us (Federal Reserve System)

http://www.epa.gov (Environmental Protection Agency)

http://www.ftc.gov (Federal Trade Commission)

http://www.defenselink.mil (Defense)

Judicial (for additional law links, click here)

http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/judiciary.html

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html (court decisions)

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html (information about the Supreme Court)

http://www.uscourts.gov

http://www.fjc.gov (Federal Judicial Center)

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLICY

http://www.statenews.org

http://www.ncsl.org/ (National Conference of State Legislatures)

http://www.temple.edu/federalism (information on federalism)

http://www.ballot.org/

http://www.governing.com/

http://www.iandrinstitute.org/

State Government Information Servers (links to all available state government websites)

NEW JERSEY POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
General

http://www.state.nj.us (general information)

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ (NJ legislature)

http://www.judiciary.nj.us (NJ judiciary)

Area Politicians

http://www.house.gov/frelinghuysen/ (Rep. Rod Frelinghuysen)

http://www.senate.gov/senators/corzine.html (Sen. Jon Corzine)

http://www.senate.gov/~torricelli/ (Sen. Robert Torricelli)

POLITICAL PARTIES

http://www.democrats.org/ (Democratic National Committee)

http://www.rnc.org (Republican National Committee)

http://www.reformparty.org (Reform Party)

http://www.lp.org (Libertarian Party)

NEWS SOURCES AND THE MEDIA

http://www.nytimes.com (New York Times)

http://www.nj.com/starledger/ (The Star Ledger)

http://www.washingtonpost.com (Washington Post)

http://www.cnn.com (CNN)

http://www.wsj.com/ (The Wall Street Journal)

http://www.rollcall.com

http://www.hillnews.com

http://www.economist.org/ (Economist magazine)

http://www.npr.org/ (National Public Radio)

http://www.foreignaffairs.org (a leading journal on international relations)

http://www.newslink.org/menu.html (news organizations)

http://www.cmpa.com (analysis of news coverage)

INTEREST GROUPS

http://www.aclu.org/ (American Civil Liberties Union)

http://www.naacp.org (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

http://www.townhall.com/ (American Conservative Union)

http://sierraclub.org/ (Sierra Club)

PUBLIC POLICY

http://www.stateline.org

http://www.policy.com/

http://www.publicagenda.org/

http://www.tompaine.com/

VOTING AND PARTICIPATION

http://www.vote-smart.org/ (information on candidates)

http://www.avc.org (information on registering)

http://www.rockthevote.org/

http://www.vanishingvoter.org (research on voter turnout)

http://www.voter.com

http://www.votesmart.com/

http://www.lwv.org/

OTHER POLITICAL WEBSITES

http://www.gallup.com (Gallup polling organization)

http://www.umich.edu/~nes/ (public opinion and voting)

http://www.rutgers.edu (Center for American Women and Politics)

http://usinfo.state.gov

http://info.lib.uh.edu/politics/markind.htm (campaigns, etc.)

http://www.princeton.edu:80/~abelson/index.html (results from various surveys)

http://www.hpol.org

http://www.constitution.org/

http://politicalinsider.com

http://www.grassroots.com/

National Political Index (links to over 30 categories of political topics)

The Jefferson Project (links for various politics websites)

The "Ultimate" Political Science Website (numerous political links)

Professor Peabody can be reached at:
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Department of Social Sciences & History
Madison, NJ 07940
(973) 443-8729
email: peabody@alpha.fdu.edu
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~peabody/