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