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Chapter 1: Introducing Comparative Politics
Chapter 2: Britain
Chapter 3: France
Chapter 4: Germany
Chapter 5: Japan
Chapter 6: India
Chapter 7: The United States
Chapter 8: Russia
Chapter 9: Brazil
Chapter 10: Mexico
Chapter 11: Nigeria
Chapter 12: Iran
Chapter 13: China





Chapter 1: Introducing Comparative Politics

Area Studies and Comparative Politics:
www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area.htm

CIA World Factbook:
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Elections Around the World:
www.electionworld.org

Foreign Government Resources on the Web:
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html

Freedom House:
www.freedomhouse.org

NationMaster:
www.nationmaster.com

Political Resources on the Net:
www.politicalresources.net

World Audit:
www.worldaudit.org
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Chapter 2: Britain

Directgov ? Portal to public service information from the UK government:
www.direct.gov.uk

National Statistics Online ? Home of official UK statistics:
www.statistics.gov.uk

The UK Parliament:
www.parliament.uk

The cabinet office:
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk

The Scottish Parliament:
www.scottish.parliament.uk

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):
www.bbc.co.uk

Market & Opinion Research International (MORI), Britain's leading political polling organization:
www.mori.com

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Chapter 3: France

ATTAC International:
www.attac.org/indexen/

Embassy of France in the U.S.:
www.ambafrance-us.org

Embassy of France in the U.S.'s FRANCE Magazine:
www.ambafrance-us.org/publi

French Foreign Ministry:
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/

French Prime Minister:
www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/en

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Chapter 4: Germany

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University:
www.aicgs.org/

German Embassy, German Information Center:
www.germany-info.org/relaunch/index.html

German Studies Web, Western European Studies Section:
www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/

German News (in English) 1995?Present:
www.germnews.de/dn/

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne:
www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/index_en.html

WZB, Social Science Research Center, Berlin:
www.wz-berlin.de/default.en.asp

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Chapter 5: Japan

Asahi Newspaper (English):
www.asahi.com/english/english.html

Embassy of Japan in the United States:
www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.htm

Japan Politics Central:
jpcentral.virginia.edu

Resources for the Study of the Japanese Polity:
www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/polsciww.html

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Chapter 6: India

BJP Party:
www.bjp.org

Economic and Political Weekly, a good source of information on Indian politics:
www.epw.org.in

Frontline, a magazine with coverage of Indian politics:
www.flonnet.com

Hindu, an English daily paper in India:
www.hinduonnet.com

Hindustan Times:
www.hindustantimes.com

Directory of Indian government Websites:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/

Sabrang Communications, providing coverage of human rights issues in India:
www.sabrang.com

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Chapter 7: The United States

The 9-11 Commission Report:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/

FindLaw ? Cases and Codes: U.S. Constitution:
findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/

The New York Times:
www.nytimes.com

Thomas ? Legislative Information from the Library of Congress:
thomas.loc.gov

U.S. Census Bureau:
www.census.gov

White House:
www.whitehouse.gov

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Chapter 8: Russia

The Carnegie Moscow Center:
www.carnegie.ru/en/

Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh:
www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb

Itar-TASS News Agency:
www.itar-tass.com/eng/

Johnson's Russia List:
www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/default.cfm

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
www.rferl.org/newsline/

Moscownew.com:
www.mosnews.com

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Chapter 9: Brazil

LANIC database, University of Texas-Austin, Brazil Resource page:
lanic.utexas.edu/la/brazil/

U.S. Library of Congress Country Study Page for Brazil:
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/brtoc.html

SciELO Brazil, Searchable Database of Full-Text Articles on Brazil:
www.scielo.br

National Development Bank of Brazil, Searchable Database of Documents on Brazilian Economy and Development (many in English):
www.bndes.gov.br/english/default.asp

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Chapter 10: Mexico

Office of the President (in Spanish and English):
www.presidencia.gob.mx

Secretariat of Foreign Relations (in Spanish and English):
www.sre.gob.mx

El Universal newspaper (in Spanish and English):
estadis.eluniversal.com.mx/noticiash.html

The Mexico Project, National Security Archive:
www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/mexico

Washington Post (registration required) :
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/northamerica/mexico
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Chapter 11: Nigeria

British Broadcasting Corporation: A 2002 interview with President Obasanjo:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/1800826.stm

Gamji: A collection of news stories from Nigerian newspapers, as well as opinion pieces and other news links:
www.gamji.com

The Guardian, Nigeria's leading daily newspaper:
www.ngrguardiannews.com

Human Rights Watch reports:
hrw.org/doc/?t=africa&c=nigeri

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance:
archive.idea.int/frontpage_nigeria.htm

Stanford University's Center for African Studies:
www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/

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Chapter 12: Iran

The Story of the Revolution, British Broadcasting Corporation:
www.bbc.co.uk/persian/revolution

Iranian Mission to the United Nations:
www.un.int/iran

Islamic Republic News Agency:
www.irna.ir/en

Iran Report, Radio Free Europe:
www.rferl.org/reports/iran-report

News Related to Iran:
www.farsinews.net

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Chapter 13: China

China Links, Professor William A. Joseph, Wellesley College:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/ChinaLinks-New/index.html

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States:
www.china-embassy.org

Finding News About China:
www.chinanews.bfn.org

PRC China Internet Information Center:
www.china.org.cn

Washington Post.com - China:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/eastasia/china

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