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There is no shortage of material on comparative politics on the Web.
H owever, that material is not always easy to find. Here are some good
general sources.
Constitutions
The University of Wurzberg has the largest collecton of constitutions
from around the world.
The Virtual Library
The VL an indispensable guide to on line resources for all academic
subjects. This takes you to its home page from which you can search
for specific topics. Links to some of its sites on countries and concepts
will be included on other pages of Comparative Politics Online.
CIA Factbook
This regularly updated data base has basic material (including good
maps) on all the world's countries.
Political Resources
AdmiNet
ElectionWorld
Three excellent general data bases. Political Resources covers the whole
landscape (but not that it is politicalresources.net rather than .com
which is in the book--.com is an excellent guide to US politics). AdmiNet
is better on individual countries. Election World has complete returns
for all the world's elections in recent years.
The University
of Colorado
Keele University
University
of West Virgina
These three universities maintain comperensive sites with links to academic
and other material i comparative politics.
CNN
BBC
Washington Post
New York Times
OneWorld
These are all excellent sources for world news, some of them better
than their on-air or print version
World News Connection
For research work, there is nothing better than the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service's World News Connection. It is prohibitively expensive
for a student to subscribe to. But, check to see if you can access it
through your library.
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