PS 2 Resources

Resources for PS 2, "Introduction to American Government" and PS 104, "The American Political System"

WEBSITES ON EXPOSITORY WRITING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE:

GENERAL ALL-PURPOSE SITES, WEBSITES OF WEBSITES, ETC.:

STUDYING CONGRESS:

Data on Congress from Charles Stewart III at MIT:

Plus The Syllabus on Congress to End All Congressional Syllabi:

How to research Congress at the National Archives:

Congressional Budget Office:

Biographical Directory of Congress, 1774-Present:

Website from the Dirksen Congressional Center:

Digitized congressional debates, 1774-1875:

STUDYING THE PRESIDENCY (AND RICHARD NIXON, HEH-HEH):

STUDYING THE SUPREME COURT:

Federalist ONLINE:

WOMEN IN AMERICAN POLITICS:

WHY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS FUN:

HUMONGOUS FEDERAL WEBSITES (or, how you can try to find out what our government is doing):

HOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE FED:

A WEBSITE THAT WILL GET YOU STARTED ON FISCAL POLICY:

THE UNITED STATES CODE:

FINDING OUT ABOUT THE 50 STATES AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING:

National Conference of State Legislators:

Gateway to elections administration websites and data for federal, state, and local governments in the U.S.

How to keep tabs on efforts to alter election administration that are sweeping the states:

Everything you ever wanted to know about state constitutions:

Research paper website of Swarthmore Economics star, Prof. Tom Dee (good stuff on the effects of public policy on solving social problems):

ELECTIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICS:

National Election Studies;

The Harvard-MIT Data Center - all the data in the world it seems:

PUBLIC OPINION:

Website of a smart, liberal analyst of American politics:

INCOME INEQUALITY:

Data on income inequality in the U.S.:

Website of a group fighting inequality in the US: the Industrial Areas Foundation

WHAT ECONOMISTS SAY ABOUT, WELL, EVERYTHING:

Guide to huge number of economics-related commentaries by UC Berkeley economist Bradford De Long:

FURTHER READING:

Excellent bibliography on everything you need to know about American politics from an historical-institutional perspective: