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Encylopedias, Dictionaries, and Reference Sources

Britannica Online
Funk and Wagnall Encyclopedia
Canadian Encyclopedia Online
Reference Desk: Single Best Source for Facts on the Web
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Glossary of Political Economy Terms
Reference of Theoretical Terms
Fast Facts: Almanacs, Factbooks, Statistical Reports
Scholars' Guide to the WWW
1911 Encylopedia

General Sites for Political Information

Poly-Cy - Internet Resources for Political Science
Public Affairs Web, Homepage
National Political Index
Political Science Network
Best History Web Sites

Political Science Research Resources
Political Information (.com) -- A Search Engine for Politics and PolicyPolitical News Daily
Center for Study of President
Book Reviews on Politics and International Relations

Data Archive Search Engines

Data Search: data archive -- UCSD site
Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG
NARA Archive Databases

Galileo Demographics and Census Data
Social Sciences Virtual Library
Data--Gary King's site
Historical Text Archive

Statistical Analysis

The Data and Story Library DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods
Ragin and Coldsmith: Qualitative Comparative Methods
The web resource for statistics
Software from Gary King
Statistical Assessment Service
Research Methods Knowledge Base
Stephan's Guide to Logical Fallacies
Stephan's Sociology Timeline since 1600
Social and Political Change

NESTAR: Networked Social Science Tools and Resources
SDA: Web-based Survey Documentation and Analyst
The Chance Database Welcome Page
The Probability Web
Sources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
Raynaud's SPSS Tools
Sociological Research Online - Home Page
Lee Wilkinson Home Page
Pereus Survey Solutions Software

Simulations and Games

Voting Game: Muppets Use IRV
Presidential Campaign Game (Hotpot)

The Election Calculator
The Game of Politics

Instructional Websites

American History 102: 1865-Present

Poll Builder

Search Engines for Papers and Publications

Get Cited Database of Publications
Academic Info: Gateway to Quality Educational Resources
Two Dozen search engines

Working-Papers: Sites of Political Science Scholars
Critical Thinking on the Web (directory of resources)
Free Academic Resources Online

Academic Journals

PARTY POLITICS--Sage's Home Page
Party Politics
Welcome to JSTOR
Find articles in over 300 magazines
Electric Politics: Political Insight, Critique, and Analysis
Journal Storage
Working Papers for Political & Social Research

The American Political Science Review
PS: Political Science Online
Campaigns & Elections
Public Opinion Quarterly
Taylor & Francis SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Service
Technology and Politics: APSA Newsletter
CSA Worldwide Abstracts

Graphics, Artwork, Cartoons

MapStats for the U.S. -- federal government
Maps of the United States -- U. of Texas
Clickable Map of the World
American Political Prints: 1776-1876
American Association of Editorial Cartoonists

ArtToday
Barry's Clip Art Server
AAA Free Clip Art
Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index
Cartoons for United States History

Sources of Natural Text

Online Books Page
Project Gutenberg Online Books
English Server: Online Books
Open Text Project
Our Documents: Updated source of civic texts

The On-line Books Page
Douglass - Archives of American Public Address
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics
Google Translation Service

Content Analysis Programs and References

VBPro Content Analysis Site, by Mark Miller
Links to sites for content analysis software
Neuendorf's Content Analysis Guidebook Online
Phil Schrodt's Kansas Event Data System (KEDS)
WordStat Content Analysis & Text-Mining Module for Simstat
Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis
TextSmart: SPSS product for text analysis
Lexical Database for English

Quantitative Study of Dreams
Virginia's Text Analysis Software
William Evans' Content Analysis Resources
Harald Klein's Text Analysis Info (Germany)
WordNet: lexical database for the English language
Megaputer tools for data mining and text analysis
Visual Representation of Text: TextArc
Visual Thesaurus