Political Science
2002 Census of Governments
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/gc021x1.pdf
Administered by the
United Census Bureau at five-year intervals since 1957,
the Census of Governments is one of the most important
sources of information about the varied types of
governmental units across the entire country.
Diplomacy Monitor
http://www.diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dm.nsf/opener?OpenForm
The Diplomacy Monitor at the St. Thomas University
School of Law allows users to globally track diplomatic
and international official statements, press briefings
through their readily accessible monitoring system
located at their site.
HUD: Community Renewal
Initiative
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/
Based on ideas developed in
the United Kingdom, the Community Renewal Initiative
(operated under the auspices of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development), was launched in 1994
under President Bill Clinton. Features frequent
updates on new program incentives, along with a number
of important documents, such as the recent publication
Tax Incentives + Businesses = Jobs.
Middle East Research and Information Project
http://www.merip.org
While the organization's primary
publication, the Middle East Report, is not available
for free on the site (although some of its editorial
pieces are), visitors will want to take a close look at
the Middle East Report Online, which is available here.
Recent features within the online report deal with the
future of Middle East studies in American universities,
ethnic unrest in Iraq, and the long-standing dispute
over Western Sahara. For visitors interested in a
particular subject, there is a subject index of
articles, and a feature that allows interested parties
to sign up to receive the online reports via email.
Nixon Tapes
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB95/
Released in August 2003 by the National Security Archive
as part of its Electronic Briefing Book series, this
compilation offers primary documents and audio
selections dealing with the relationship between
President Richard Nixon and the former president of
Mexico, Luis Echeverria Alvarez.
Princeton University
Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/
The Princeton
University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
was created in 1994 by Stanley N. Katz and Paul
DiMaggio, in part "to address the serious and damaging
deficit in the information and thinking available to
inform the development and implementation of policies
related to arts and culture."
Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm
This well organized web-guide "attempts
to overcome the shortcomings of general web searching by
providing a selection of annotated links to the most
reliable, substantive sites for U.S Supreme Court
research."
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