Jennifer S. Holmes
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
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Official Government Web Sites:
The Texas House of Representatives
Federal Web Locator
U.S. State Department:
United Nations: http://www.un.org/
State of Texas Legislative Budget Board: http://www.lbb.state.tx.us/
USIA: http://www.usip.org/
IMF: http://www.imf.org
CIA: http://www.cia.gov/
FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/
usgovsearch free edition http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess/
U.S. Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Congressional records and committee reports: http://thomas.loc.gov
UTD Sites
UTD Graduate Catalog http://www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/grad00/index.html
UTD Undergrad Catalog: http://www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/undergrad00/
Faculty Bookstore Page at UTD http://www.bkstore.com/utdallas/fac_info.html
Online UTD Course Evaluations: http://ospa.utdallas.edu/evaluations/
UTD College Democrats:
http://www.geocities.com/democratsutd/
Political Science Organizations
Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml
Project Vote Smart's Intro to American Government Primer: http://www.vote-smart.org/reference/primer/
APSA http://www.apsanet.org/
Latin American Studies Association: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/
U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/committees/committee_detail.cfm?COMMITTEE_ID=408
Center for the American Woman and Politics: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/
Southwestern Political Science Association: http://socialscience.tyler.cc.tx.us/sssa/
Southern Political Science Association: http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/spsa/
Political Parties:
Reform Party: http://www.reformparty.org/
Green Party: www.greenparties.org
Democratic National Committee: http://www.democrats.org/
Republican National Committee: http://www.rnc.org/
Libertarian Party of Texas: http://www.tx.lp.org/
Grant and Job Sites for you:
Government Jobs:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov
Harry Truman Foundation: http://www.truman.gov/welcome.htm
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Online: http://www.hsf.net/
Links for governmnet jobs: http://www.unk.edu/departments/career_services/gov_1.html
Scholarships www.freescholarships.com
Chronicle of Higher Education This Week in Academe: http://chronicle.com/jobs/
H-net jops: http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/
Top American Research Universities (An alternative ranking to US News etc) http://thecenter.ufl.edu/
Link to political science job sites: http://polisci.about.com/science/polisci/library/weekly/aa032600a.htm
Link to political science job sites via the APSA:
http://www.apsanet.org/jobplc/onlinejobs.cfm
Fulbright Grants: http://iserver.iie.org/cies/usfulb.htm
Other Interesting Sites:
State Boards of Medical Examiners: http://www.medijob.com/medexaminersnf.html
Texas Doc Finder: http://www.docboard.org/tx/df/txsearch.htm
AMA http://www.certifieddoctor.org/verify.html
SO database: http://216.140.183.67/so_search.cfm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore (Best academic bookstore in the country!) http://www.semcoop.com/mainpage/start.asp
Online Reference Sources:
World's most complete website on Politics & Government: www.politicsandelections.com
National Security Archives @ Bay of Pigs: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB29/index.html
Gridded Population of the World (GPW) http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw/
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict
http://polisci.about.com
Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com/
Cold War Bibliography http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/bibl.html
Bibliography of British Cold War History, 1945-1960 http://web.bham.ac.uk/maddendp/bibliography.htm
Korean War Bibliography - Center for Korean Studies http://www2.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/15.htm
History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/
US News & World Report Rankings: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/corank.htm
PBS http://www.pbs.org/
WWI documents: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
Postmodern theory resources: http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
Historical documents online (Fletcher) http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/historical/
Open Secrets: http://www.opensecrets.org/home/index.asp
Richard Kimber's Polisci web page: http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
CNN Coldwar: http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/
Digitized Historical Texts (American Gov't) Model Editions Partnership (MEP) http://adh.sc.edu/
Public Agenda Online: http://www.publicagenda.org/
Brookings Institution: http://www.brookings.edu
Arms Control Association: http://www.armscontrol.org
Center for Nonproliferation Studies: http://www.cns.miis.edu
Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org
Henry Stimson Center: http://www.stimson.org.
Atlantic Council of the U.S. http://www.acus.org
Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org
Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org
Institute for National Security Studies: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/insshp.html
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: http://www.igcc.uscd.edu
InterAmerican Dialogue: http://www.iadialog.org/
UN Association of the USA: http://www.unausa.org
Campaign for UN Reform: http://www.cunr.org
Academic Council on the UN Systems (ACUNS) http://www.yale.edu/department/ACUNS
Elections around the world: http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/election/country/fr.htm
Political Science Reference: http://www.polisci.com/world/nation/FR.htm
CIA World Factbook [.pdf] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Scout Report for Social Sciences http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/socsci/
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
1774-1873
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Congress Link http://www.congresslink.org/
"Progress of Nations 2000" -- UNICEF [.pdf, RealPlayer] http://www.unicef.org/pon00/
Electoral college tallies: http://hotlinescoop.com/web/content/campaignscoop/whitehouse/evscore.htm
"Americans and the World" http://www.americans-world.org/
This website will report on US public
opinion on a broad range of international policy issues
Misc. links: http://www.wesleyan.edu/gov/links.htm
Findlaw: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
British Library for Development Studies: http://www.ids.ac.uk
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems: http://www.umich.edu/~nes/cses/cses.htm
Political Science Resources: http://www.ucd.ie/~politics/genpols.html
Canadian International Development Agency: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/acdicida/indez_e.htm
Consortium for Peace Research, Education and Development: http://www.igc.apc.org:/copred/
Latin American Studies Resources: http://Ranic.utexas.edu/las.html
Praxis Resources for Social and Economic Development: http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html
Third World Academy of Sciences: http://www.ictp.trieste.it/TWAS/TWAS.html
Trends in Developing Countries: http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html
UNCTAD http://gatekeeper.unicc.org/unctad/
United Nations Development Programme: http://www.undp.org
Virtual Library on Development: http://www.synapse.net/~acdi03/indexg/welcome.htm
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas/
USIA: http://www.usip.org/grants.html
CIA world factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
International Trade Search Engine: http://www.axcessdata.com/
Tulane's L.A. Library: http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/lalhome.html
Yahoo en espanol: http://espanol.yahoo.com/
National Endowment for Democracy: http://www.ned.org/
Global Development Gateway (GDG) http://www.worldbank.org/gateway
A Glossary of Political Economy Terms http://www.duc.auburn.edu/~johnspm/glossind.html
Democide, War, Famine, and Underdevelopment http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CSGR/wpapers.htm
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?home_index.html
Business & Human Rights: A Resource Website: http://www.business-humanrights.org
Journals:
Foreign Affairs: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
H-Net book reviews: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/
H-Net: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/
Online Data Sources:
World Development Indicators database http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
National Statistics: the Official United Kingdom Statistics Site http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/
Pew Research Center: http://www.people-press.org/
Penn World Tables: http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/index.html
International Labour Organization: http://laborsta.ilo.org/
The Social Science Dream Machine: Resource discovery, analysis
and delivery on the Web http://www.nesstar.org/papers/iassist_0599.html
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [.pdf] http://www.SSRN.Com/
Political Database of the Americas: http://www.georgetown.edu/LatAmerPolitical/
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
Bureau of Justice Statistics: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Social Science Briefing Room: http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
Social Science Data Sites: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/websites.html
UTD Electronic Databases: http://www.utdallas.edu/library/reference/database.html
InterAmerican Development Bank: http://www.iadb.org/exr/english/index_english.htm
ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html
World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/
ECLAC: http://www.eclac.cl/index1.html
ECLAC Statistics: http://www.eclac.cl/english/statistics/statistics.htm
Statistics online: http://www.library.unt.edu/info/willis/govdocs/statfile.html#international
More online data from SSDC: http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/
Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/
Global Financial Data http://www.globalfindata.com/
Foreign Stock Markets: http://www.bvl.com.pe/sistemas/ootrlin1.htm
Many L.A. economic statistics - links to government sources: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/OFFSTATScountryM_Z.html#P
Eurobarometer: Continuous tracking and monthly monitoring reports: http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg10/infcom/epo/eo.html
NYTimes Index: http://www.depts.washington.edu/ampol/nytindex.html
TV News Archive http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
IMF General Data Dissemination System http://dsbb.imf.org/gddsindex.htm
Latinobarometro: http://www.latinobarometro.org/
Roper Center: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Social Indicators of Development: http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/sid-home.html
Resources for Economists on the web: http://rfe.wustl.edu/EconFAQ.html
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
http://www.lapopsurveys.org/
Online Music
Chicago's classical music station: http://www.broadcast.com/radio/classical/WFMT/
Broadcast.com (listen to other radio stations) http://www.broadcast.com/
Peruvian Radio: http://www.cpnradio.com.pe
"" http://www.rpp.com.pe
Environment Man: www.mp3.com/environmentman
News:
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk
CNN Espanol: http://cnnenespanol.com/
US News and World Reports: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
The Economist http://www.economist.com/
Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/
OnlineNewspapers.com http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Archives of Non-US Newspapers: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/ForArchives.html
Dallas Info
website of the UTD chapter of the Texas Faculty Association is: http://www.geocities.com/utdtfa/index.html
DFW ozone map: http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/monops/select_curlev?region04_cur.gif
The weather radar for the DFW area:
Mapblast http://www.mapblast.com
KERA: http://www.kera.org/
Online Activism
e-advocates (including a free guide to starting a cybercampaign) http://www.e-advocates.com/
IMF's Debt Initiative for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries http://www.imf.org/external/np/hipc/hipc.htm
ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/
New Leadership http://www.newleadership.rutgers.edu/
African American Environmentalist Association http://communities.msn.com/AAEA
Terrorism/Violence sites
Global Terrorism Reports & Terrorist Group Profiles: http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/tgp/tgp2.htm
Sinn Fein Homepage http://sinnfein.ie/
Socialist Democratic & Labour Party (SDLP) Homepage http://www.sdlp.ie/
Ulster Unionist Party Homepage http://www.uup.org/
Sinn Fein: http://sinnfein.ie/
Northern Ireland election site::
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/
Web Sites I use in my own research:
PERU
Peruvian truth commission: http://www.rpp.com.pe/
LASA Peru section home page: http://home.presby.edu/lasaperu/Default.htm
APOYO home page and recent PO http://www.apoyo.com/NEWPortal/
Peru section of LASA: http://home.presby.edu/lasaperu/
Pro Shining Path website: http://www.csrp.org/
Pro MRTA website: http://www.imf.org/
APRODEH (Peruvian Human Rights Group) http://www.aprodeh.org.pe/
Peru Elections: http://www.gci275.com/peru/election2001.shtml
Peru Tracking Poll: http://www.gci275.com/log/
Peru Election 2000: http://csd.queensu.ca/peru2000/
El Comercio http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/
Peruvian newspapers: http://espanol.yahoo.com/Zonas_geograficas/Paises/Peru/Medios_de_comunicacion/Periodicos/
Peruvian News http://www.transparencia.org.pe
Democracy Center at Queens University http://csd.queensu.ca/peru2000
Caretas (Pervuian Newspaper) http://www.caretas.com.pe
Transparencia (Peruvian private citizen's group working for clean elections) http://www.transparencia.org.pe
INEI (Peru Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática) http://www.inei.gob.pe/
El Comercio (Peruvian paper) http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/index.html
La Encuesta http://www.asesor.com.pe/laencuesta/
Peru: The Top 10,000 Companies http://www.gci275.com/top10000.shtml
Recently declassified documents: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB64/
Peruvian elections data: http://www.onpe.gob.pe/
GENERAL
Federation of American Scientists (Intelligence sites): http://www.fas.org/irp/index.html
Oklahoma City Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism http://www.mipt.org/
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin: http://www.fbi.gov/library/leb/leb.htm
National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/
Terrorism Research Center: http://www.terrorism.com/
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act: http://travel.state.gov/antiterr.html
CDT's Counter-Terrorism Issues Page: http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/
Terrorists online http://www.cromwell-intl.com/security/netusers.html
Guerrilla links: http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/plscinfo/LAST/lounge/guerrill.htm
Washington Office on Latin America: http://www.wola.org/
Carter Center Links Page: (corruption info) http://www.CarterCenter.org/LACP/lacponline.html
Just the Facts (Civilian Guide to U.S. Military Aid) http://www.ciponline.org/facts/
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: http://www.cidh.org/
Watchdog group for terrorism legislation: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Terrorism_militias/
Patterns of global terrorism reports: http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/
Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists www.public-i.org
and www.icij.org
Center for Democratic Studies, University of Haifa.
http://cds.haifa.ac.il/
SPAIN
Fundacion BBV: http://www.fbbv.es/
CIS http://www.cis.es/
El Pais online: http://www.elpais.es/
Ministerio del Interior - Espana: http://www.mir.es/
""" Info on ETA: http://www.mir.es/oris/
Manos Blancas: http://manos-blancas.uam.es/
International Statistical Servers (including Spanish regional data) http://www.ine.es/serv/estaing.htm
Spanish Economic Data Instituto Nacional de Estadística http://www.ine.es/
Cadena Cope: (Spanish Radio) http://www.cope.es/
Canal Sur Radio (Seville Radio) http://www.canalsur.es/radioweb/radio.ram
Radio Exterior de España en vivo http://www.rtve.es/rne/envivo.htm
geoCOMMUNITY http://www.geocomm.com/
EU:
EU stuff: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eu.html
EU http://fgr.wu-wien.ac.at/nentwich/euroint.htm
URUGUAY
Asamblea Uruguaya : http://www.asamblea.org.uy/frames.htm
Uruguayan National Statistical Institute http://www.ine.gub.uy/
US
Militia Watch http://www.militia-watchdog.org/m1.htm
Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/
Anti-Defamation League: http://www.adl.org/
WAR ON DRUGS
Office of National Drug Control Policy: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/MOMindex.html
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports:
http://www.state.gov/www/global/narcotics_law/narc_reports_mainhp.html
Mama Coca http://www.mamacoca.org/
Transnational Institute: http://www.tni.org/
COLOMBIA
Colombian radio "caracol" http://www.caracol.com.co/caracol2.ram
El Espectador (Colombian paper) http://www.elespectador.com
El Tiempo (Colombian paper) http://www.eltiempo.com
Actualidad Colombiana
www.actualidadcolombiana.org
Center for International Policy (Colombia) http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/
CODHES (Colombian Human Rights Org) http://www.codhes.org.co/
FARC (Colombia Rebel Group) http://burn.ucsd.edu/~farc-ep/
AUC (Colombia paramilitary group) http://www.colombialibre.org/
International Republican Institute http://www.colombialibre.org/
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/colombia/eng.html
Office of the UN HR Commission in Colombia http://www.hchr.org.co/
Red de Solidaridad Social http://www.red.gov.co
DANE - Colombian Government Statistics http://www.dane.gov.co
CINEP - Colombian human rights group http://www.cinep.org.co
Pais Libre - Kidnapping resource group: http://www.paislibre.org
Colombian government web sites: http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gov.co/urldirectory/federal/0,4356,ES-COgl,00.html
ARGENTINA
Argentine statistical data http://www.indec.mecon.ar/
Dr. Holmes is not responsible for the contents of external internet sites.