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Political science BBC Newsround: Types of Government 
 This site for children provides simple definitions of various forms of governments around the world. Terms include anarchy, democracy, dictatorship, federal government, traditional and constitutional monarchy, republic, totalitarian state, and transitional. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/united_nations/types_of_government/newsid_2151000/2151570.stm Topics: Dictionaries, Social Science Last updated Apr 24, 2006 The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive
The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987." This project "make[s] accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI." Participants include Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, and Aldous Huxley. From the Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/digital/csdi/ Topics: Politics, Social Issues Last updated Nov 25, 2008 Country Studies
Online version of a series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. This series contains studies of more than 100 countries. You can search across all countries or any combination of countries, browse the table of contents for a specific country, or read the full text for any of the countries listed. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Topics: Country Studies by Continent, Government, Government, Politics, Regions of the World, Regions of the World, Social Science Last updated Feb 13, 2003 How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law
Discusses how "regime design choices in international law turn on empirical claims about how states behave and under what condition their behavior changes." The authors suggest that states might influence other states in three ways: coercion, persuasion, and acculturation. Part of the University of Chicago Law School's Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper series. Opens directly into a PDF file. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/academics/publiclaw/resources/62-Jinks.pdf Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, International Governments, Politics, Social Science Last updated May 12, 2004 Niccolo Machiavelli — The Prince
This Web site, dedicated to Machiavelli's treatise "The Prince," includes a full English translation, an outline, a summary, and highlighted quotations as well as a brief biography of the author. http://www.the-prince-by-machiavelli.com/ Topics: Heads of State, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Government, Politics, Social Science Last updated Aug 27, 2003 Political Science Resources: United States Politics
Collection of links to materials about U.S. government and politics. Topics include campaign finance, cartoons, elections, lobbying groups, political parties, news sources, statistics, think tanks, and more. From the University of Michigan Library Documents Center. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html Topics: Federal (U.S.) Government, Politics Last updated Apr 24, 2006 Tarek Heggy
Official website from Egypt's Tarek Heggy, a liberal political thinker in the Arab world, who is a manager in the petroleum industry, a university lecturer, and an author. "His work advances the causes of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East." Includes dozens of essays, a resume with a list of his books, photos, and video files of interviews (some only in Arabic). Some materials available in several languages. http://www.heggy.org Topics: History By Place, International Governments, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Politics, Regions of the World, Social Science, Women Last updated Aug 17, 2005 |
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