Textbook
Resources
www.ablongman.com/comparativepolitics
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_comppol_1/0,4965,297192-,00.html
Country Profiles
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_comppol_1/0,4965,297177-,00.html
Web links courtesy of the publisher of our book.
General
Resources
http://www.hpronline.org/
Analyzing the international political landscape, the Harvard Political
Review is an excellent place to explore and view political developments
from around the world.
http://www.psqonline.org
Government, politics, policy, both domestic and international, are examined
at this site.
Articles can be sampled for free and there is a listing of free archived
materials. Other articles require a subscription to view.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciahome.html
Get to the CIA Factbook, which contains an abundance of statistical
and political information about countries around the world
http://usinfo.state.gov/
US Department of State website.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic online with maps, statistics, and excellent information
regarding political culture.
http://klipsan.com/elecnews.htm
Daily coverage of elections around the world is at this site. Links
to in-depth reports on world election results as well as links to world
newspapers can also be found at this site.
http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/election.htm
Alphabetical listing of countries with information updated monthly.
Electoral Calendar, recent election updates, and parties by country
or by orientation (agrarian, authoritarian, centrist, communist etc.)
are some of the links on the site.
http://ceip.org
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Forum for international issues.
International Organizations
http://europa.eu.int
The site of the European Union
General
Media Sources
http://economist.com
http://europe.cnn.com/
CNN.com Europe is a new CNN Web site that has all the breaking news,
context, analysis, multimedia and interactivity you already expect from
CNN.com in addition to news from, about and directed toward a European
audience.
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.allpolitics.com
http://www.cpsan.org
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.pbs.org
http://www.abcnews.com
http://www.msnbc.com
http://www.foxnews.com
http://www.politicsnow.com
Human Rights Organizations
http://www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International
http://www.hrw.org/
Human Rights Watch
General
Reference on the UK
http://britain-info.org
British Information Service site with an abundance of material on Tony
Blair, the EU, and many other topics in the study of the British political
system.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/gb.html
Governements on the Web: General resources, national institutions, media
links, departments and political party links, regional institutions,
municipal institutions, and representations in foreign countries.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html
CIA Factbook site with excellent background information, including descriptions
of geography, demographics, the governmental structure, the economy,
communication, transportation, the military and transnational issues.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
National
Statistics of the UK. The “home of official statistics, reflecting
Britain’s economy, population and society at the national and
local level”
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/unitedki.htm
A general reference site with full color physical maps, political maps
and key statistics.
http://www.citynet/countries/united_kingdom.htm
More general information on culture and language, education, geography,
news and weather, travel and cities and events.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108078.html
General reference site with historical information, and links to regions
within the UK. Also links to statistical resources.
http://www.politicalresources.net/uk.htm
Links to organizations, government, the media, elections and a host
of other sites, including a tribute page to Margaret Thatcher!
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/
“World Statesmen is an encyclopedia of nations, colonies, international
and religious organizations, and other polities”
Parties,
Elections, Interest Groups
http://www.electionworld.org/election/unitedkingdom.htm
Recent election results in the UK with links to other political resources.
http://mori.com
Public Opinion Polls
http://www.labour.org.uk/
The Labor Party
http://conservatives.com
The Conservative Party
http://libdems.org.uk
Liberal Democrats
http://snp.org
Scottish National Party
http://plaidcymru.org
Wales Party
http://uup.org
Ulster Unionists
http://sdlp.ie
Social Democratic and Labor Party
http://dup.org.uk
Democratic Unionist Party
http://www.sinnfein.ie
Sinn Fein
http://www.tuc.org.uk/
Trade Union Council website
UK Institutions
http://www.open.ogv.uk
“The easy way to government info and services online”
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/gb.html
A
directory of British government websites
http://www.parliament.uk
Parliament
http://www.pm.gov.uk
The official 10 Downing Street website.
http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/
The
Cabinet Office
http://www.britcoun.org/
The
British Council
http://www.royal.gov.uk/
The
British Monarchy
http://213.38.88.195/coi/coipress.nsf
The
Central Office of Information
Regions
of the United Kingdom -Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are represented
by comprehensive websites that include good information about political
culture, government, and politics.
http://www.scot.web.co.uk/tp
http://www.arachnid.cs.cf.ac.uk/Guide/wales.html
http://www.wales.gov.uk/index.htm
http://www.ireland.com
UK
Media
http://economist.com
No explanation necessary!
http://news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
The
Times, a daily newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The
Guardian, a centre-left daily newspaper
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
The
conservative Daily Telegraph, a newspaper
http://www.independent.co.uk/
The
Independent, a daily newspaper
France
“Everyman has two nations, and one of them is France,” Benjamin
Franklin, http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/index.gb.html
Welcome to France on the WWW is a very comprehensive site, with most
information translated into English. It includes resources for and links
to geography, population, history, institutions, politics, political
parties, foreign policy, economic policy, and travel. The section on
the executive branch lists all members of the cabinet with information
links for each one.
http://www.info-france-usa.org
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/fr.html
Governments on the Web presents France
http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/
French National Assembly
http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/english/8ab.asp
French Constitution of 1958
http://www.senat.fr/english/somm.html
French Senate
http://www.elysee.fr/
Official site of the French President
http://www.elysee.fr/ang/index.shtm
For those non-French speakers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1899119.stm
Profile of Jaques Chirac, courtesy of the BBC
http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/en/
Prime Minister Raffarin’s site
http://www.france.com/culture/
General background site on French culture
Among
the top Cultural Websites are:
Chateau de Versailles http://www.chateauversailles.com
La Tour Eiffel http://www.tour-eiffel.fr
Top French Events
Tour De France http://www.letour.com
Cannes Film Festival http://www.festival-cannes.fr
http://www.adetocqueville.com
Analysis of French foreign and domestic policy
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/index.html
West European Studies Specialists—site that contains a mixture
of French and English language sources on France as well as other European
countries.
http://www.rpr.org
Rassemblement Pour la Republique (RPR party)
http://www.parti-socialiste.fr
Parti Sociali (Socialists Party)
http://www.pcf.fr
Parti Communiste Francais (Communist party)
http://www.afp.com
French News Media is well represented on the Internet including Agence
France Press (One of the three largest world news wires)
The
Three Big Dailies and their URLs are:
Le Monde http://www.lemonde.fr
Le Figaro http://www.lefigaro.fr
Liberation http://www.liberation.fr
For television try ARTE
http://www.sdv.fr/arte/
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/lanr/resguide/monde.htm
University of Delaware (go Blue Hens) site to index Le Monde |
