Updated August 13, 2014
Political Science
American Political Science Assoc.
APSA advocacy page
Midwest Political Science Assoc.
Southern Political Science Assoc.
Society for Political Methodology
Political Networks Section
European Political Science Assoc.
European Consortium for Political Research
Political Networks Paper Archive
INSNA (Sunbelt)
Legislative Studies Section
SSRN Political Science
NetSci
The Forum
Political Blogs
Mischiefs of Faction
Monkey Cage
Five Thirty Eight (Nate Silver)
Math of Politics (John Patty)
A Plain Blog About Politics (Jonathan Bernstein)
USAPP (American Politics and Policy, LSE)
Duck of Minerva (IR)
Brendan Nyhan
Enik Rising (Seth Masket)
Smoke-Filled Room
Wonkblog
FiveRupies
GeoSocial Analysis
DailyKos
Lawyers, Guns, & Money
Complexity and Social Networks Blog
Social Capital Blog
News- General
Washington Post
New York Times
National Journal
Politico
The Hill
C-Span
Roll Call
CQ Weekly
News—Elections
NJ: Political Connections
NJ: The Cook Political Report
NJ: Hotline
NJ: Race Tracker
Congress Research, Documents, Sources
Thomas/Congress.gov
Congressional ProQuest
Congressional Biographical Directory
Congressional Record
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
Congresslink
CRS Reports I
CRS Reports II
CRS Reports III
Congressional Bills
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Legistorm (staff salaries and financial disclosures)
Political Graveyard
GovTrack
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Federal Government Sources
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House
Senate
Federal Government Guide
GMU Library Poli Sci Info Guide
DATA Sources
Legislative Explorer (interactive lawmaking)
The Legislative Effectiveness Project
Cong. Roll Calls: Voteview, WaPo Congress Votes
Advocacy and Public Policymaking
Federal Lobbyist Online Registration
Lobbying Disclosure—House
Lobbying Disclosure—Senate
LittleSis
Charles Stewart’s Data Page
Americans for Democratic Action
Congressional District Data
American National Election Studies
Cooperative Congressional Election Study
Presidential Atlas
ICPSR
GDELT Event Database
Polidata
GDP Forecast
ODUM Dataverse
Economagic
District Shape Files
Congressional Bills Project
Chapel Hill Expert Survey (EU)
Harvard Dataverse
The Koblenz Network Collection
UCI Network Data Repository
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection (SNAP)
Global Media Freedom Data (1948-2012)
Campaigns, Elections, and Campaign Finance
Center for Responsive Politics: Opensecrets
Follow the money
Fundrace
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME)
Campaign Finance Institute
Federal Election Commission
Political Money Line
Gallup
Polling Report
Pollster
Election Passport
Campaign Finance Limits (by law)
Software, Statistics, Analysis, and Math
R (for everything)
Stata (for traditional statistical analysis)
Stack Overflow (for all kinds of software, coding help)
Yoshikoder (for content analysis)
JFreq (for word counting)
LaTex, BiBtex, Starter
Wolfram MathWorld
Khan Academy
Opossem (Social Science Education in Methodology)
Social Observatory Coordinating Network
Gary King’s Software Page
Network Analysis
Hanneman and Riddle (textbook)
UCInet
Pajek
NodeXL (for Excel based network analysis)
Statnet (for network analysis)
StOCNET
PNet
Senate Social Graph
Harvard Program on Networked Governance
Center for Complex Network Research (Northeastern U.)
Complexity in Social Networks Blog
Stanford Network Analysis Project
Yale Institute for Network Science
Duke Network Analysis Center
Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)
Tnet
Writing
George Mason Univ. Writing Center
UW Madison Writing Center
Guide to APSA Style
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Grammar Girl
Inspirational and Informative TED Talks
Can Government be Innovative?
30 is not the new 20
How great leaders inspire action?
Do schools kill creativity?
Why we have too few female leaders
The happy secret to better work
Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
The hidden influence of social networks
Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
Interactive and Instructive
Election Simulator
Marketplace Budget Hero
Implicit Associations Test
Indebted
Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
Generate Sampling Distributions
The Redistricting Game
Games with a Purpose
Political Compass
Wordle