Government and Politics

Background Reading

Campaign/Election Coverage Research/Resource Files from Poynter Online.

Papers and reports from Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Selected papers by prominent figures in journalism are available from June 1998 forward are available in PDF format. Others may be ordered from the address listed on the page.

Internet Resources

U.S. Government Documents.
Located in Lehman Library, a Federal Depository Library, which provides access to U.S. Government publications, as well as selected New York State and New York City materials. The web site is a well-organized set of guides to both print and electronic sources of government information of all types.

Federal Government

Executive Branch | White House | Legislative Branch (THOMAS from the Library of Congress) | Legislative Information | Judicial Branch

FedWorld
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) FedWorld offers access to thousands of files across a wide range of subject areas. You can find information from Environmental Protection to Small Business. NTIS is tasked by Congress to help disseminate the vast amount of scientific and technical information along with other, non-technical information.

State Government

Official NY State Homepage | Other State Gov't Resources (Library of Congress) | Other State Gov't Resources (Piperinfo)

Local Government

NYC | NY County & City Gov't | Other City Links

Political & Other

Campaign & Elections

Created by the Documents Librarian at CU. Contains links to U.S. government, political parties, campaign '96, campaign finances, congressional voting, election results and statistics, media and politics, and polling resources sites available on the Internet.

U.S. Political Parties

Yahoo's collection of links to political party web pages for the U.S.

C-SPAN

Booknotes, Campaign '96, Road to the White House,Washington Journal and more.

The Gallup Organization

The Gallup Organization provides up-to-date information on Election '96 and other Gallup polls, the Gallup Poll Monthly International Newsletter and Gallup Poll Monthly Newsletter Archives.