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Comparative
Politics Links Page
This site, located on UNCC's server, is maintained by Frada Mozenter
of the Library's Reference Staff. This page was prepared to list links
of use to students in comparative politics.
Comparative
Politics Links from St. Martin's Press
An extensive list of links prepared and maintained by a commerical
book publisher.
CIA
World Factbook
This site, maintained by the CIA, contains basic information on the
political institutions, economy, and geography for each of the world's
independent countries.
State
Department's Background Notes
These entries provide a fuller treatment of a country's history and
current political and economic situation than the World Fact Book.
However, some entries are a bit dated. This site is the gateway. You need
to select a region and then the specific country.
Area Handbooks
This series, once coordinated by the U.S. Army, is now managed by the
Library of Congress. These handbooks are book-length surveys of politics,
economic, history, and geography. Handbook are currently available for
85 countries around the world.
Elections
Around the World
This site, maintained by Wilfried Dirksen, focuses on election results
from around the world. Country results are stored alphabetically. Another
nice feature are the useful links to other politically-oriented sites at
the end of each country's page.
Parties
on the Net
Another site maintained by Wilfried Dirksen. This one contains links
to political parties around the world that offer web sites.
Legislatures
on the Net
A third web site developed by Wilfried Dirksen. The focus here is on
national legislatures that have web sites.
Freedom House
Each year Freedom house ranks the courties of the world on the the
extent of political rights. This web site contains a link to the
latest country rankings.
The New York Times
Not only do I think that the New York Times is the best overall
newspaper in the US, but once you register (free in the US) you can conduct
searches for articles on any topic (though retreival is no longer free).
E&P
Guide to Online Newspapers
This site contains a comprehensive directory of newspapers around the
world that have web pages. Provides an opportunity to find out how newspapers
in your country are reporting the news.
Ebsco Host
Another route entirely is to use an on-line indexing service. These
services maintain databases of articles that can be searched by key words.
Ebsoc Host contain many useful indexes, especially Academic Search Elite
(for academic journal articles) and Newspaper Source for newspaper
articles. In some cases you can read complete articles on-line; in
others, only an abstract. Note that this service is only available from
machines located on campus.
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