Comparative/Global Politics

Resources for the Comparative Study of Politics around the World

*PARTIES, ELECTIONS, LEGISLATURES*
ACE Project: Administration & Cost of Elections	Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Accurate Democracy: Voting Rules & Simulations	IDEA: Institute for Democracy & Electoral Assistance
Carter Center	IDEA: Global Voter Turnout
Center for Voting and Democracy	International Foundation for Election Systems
Comparative Democratization Project	Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems	Lijphart's Elections Archive
Democracies Online	National Endowment for Democracy
ElectionGuide.org	Parties and Elections in Europe
Election Resources on the Internet	Psephos (Adam Carr)
Electionworld.org: Elections around the world	Rulers.org
Forum on Federations: Federalism	World Rulers: Heads of State and Prime Ministers
Freedom House	Yahoo! Government > Politics > Parties
*CONSTITUTIONS*
Constitution Finder	International Constitutional Law
European Court of Justice	National Constitutions
*COMPARATIVE/GLOBAL RESOURCES AND DATA*
BLM Central American Democracy Index	Library of Congress: Home
CIA World Fact Book	Library of Congress/HLAS Online
Diffusion of Democracy Data (U Colorado)	Library of Congress: Research Tools
Economic Freedom Index (Heritage Foundation)	Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
Failed States Index (Fund for Peace)	Penn World Table (Comparative econ data)
Foreign Government Web Resources: UM-Ann Arbor	POLITY Dataset-Jaggers/Gurr
Global Integrity Index	Social Watch: Country Reports
Government Publications and Maps (Northwestern)	UNICEF Data: Progress of Nations
Historical Text Archive	World Bank Data and Statistics
Infonation	World Bank: Governance & Anti-Corruption Data
International Developments (Child, Youth & Family Policy)	World Development Report 1999/2000
Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research	World Policies
Library of Congress: Country Studies	World Values Survey
*REGIONAL POLITICS: DATA AND NEWS*
Africa Research Central	Latin American Resources (Oberlin)
Africa Research Program (Harvard)	Latin American Studies Institutions - LANIC
Afrobarometer	LatinNews.com
Brazilianpolitics.com	MERIP: Middle East Research and Information
Central American Political History Database	Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC)
CountryReports.org	New Europe Barometer
Eurasia Net (Central Asia, ex-USSR)	Political Database of the Americas
Eurobarometer	REES Web: Russia and East European Studies
European Protest and Coercion Data	Regional Information (USIP)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)	RussiaVotes.Org
H-LATAM Discussion Network	SARAI: South Asia Resource Access
Houses of Parliament (UK)	Tibet Online
	Tocqueville Connection: French News and Politics
	Trends in Developing Countries (World Bank)
*NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS*
Center for World Indigenous Studies	The Nationalism Project
Ethnologue: Languages of the World	National Liberation Movements
Global Review of Ethnopolitics	NativeWeb Resources: Resource Database
Irish Republican Socialist Movement	Social Movements in South Asia
IRSM Links in Solidarity	Zapatistas in Cyberspace
Movement Organizations

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Resources for the Comparative Study of Politics around the World

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