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Political Science and Public Affairs Reference and Web Resources

Political Science and Public Affairs, University of Washington Libraries

University of Washington Department of Political Science

University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs


Political Science Mega-Sites

The American Political Science Association

Political Science Resources on the Web (From the University of Michigan Library Documents Center)

Paul Hensel's Political Science Page, University of North Texas

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources

The Ultimate Political Science Links Page


Political Science Research

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"...the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based organization providing access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. ICPSR further serves social scientists around the world by offering training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis and other resources that facilitate secondary analysis."

Internet Data Resources for Social Scientists (From the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

The International Society of Political Psychology

The Society for Political Methodology


Declassified Documents

Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive contains a comprehensive set of declassified government documents which includes 31 collections consisting of over 80,000 indexed documents.

The National Security Archive, The George Washington University
"The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non-governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats." A CD-ROM index available through the UW Libraries Articles and Research Databases corresponds to the UW Libraries holdings in microfiche.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Electronic Reading Room
The Electronic Reading Room displays frequently-requested documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Categories include Espionage, Famous Persons, the Gangster Era, Historical Interest, Unusual Phenonema and Violent Crime.

Secrecy and Security News, Federation of American Scientists
Part of the Project on Government Secrecy.

The Declassified Documents Reference Service (DDRS): this is the University of Washington Libraries' collection of declassified documents on microfiche; the materials were declassified between 1975-1999. The Declassified Documents Reference System Index & Abstracts is the corresponding CD-ROM index; ask for assistance with this CD ROM at the Government Publications Help Desk. The printed index is The Declassified Documents Catalog.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)


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