Useful Web Resources

Chapter 2 Beliefs, Values and American Society

Comprehensive demographic and other data are available from the US Census Bureau at www.census.gov
Historical data are available from www.icg.fas.harvard/census
Information on immigration (and how to achieve US citizenship) is available from the Immigration and Naturalization Service at www.us-immigration.com

Chapter 3 Constitutional Government

The US Constitution Resource Center (www.tcnbp.tripod.com) provides documents and background information on the Constitution.
The Congressional Research Service also provides good information and links at www.access.gpo/congress/senate/constitution/toc/
A good search engine is at www.constitutioncenter.org

Chapter 4 Federalism: Why the States Still Matter

The Council of State Governments has a good site and provides links to all state governments (www.csg.org).
For information on cities access the US Conference of Mayors at www.usmayors.org
The Center for the Study of Federalism is also good (www.temple.edu/federalism/).

Chapter 5 The Changing Role of Political Parties

The official site of the Democratic National Committee is www.democrats.org and of the Republicans www.rnc.org
A useful site for accessing many aspects of American politics is www.politics1.org
It also lists all registered political parties, including Ralph Nader's Reform Party at www.Americanreform.org

Chapter 6 Election and Political Participation

The Federal Election Commission is at www.fec.gov
The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan has good voting data at www.isr.umich.edu/cps
Further poll data are at www.gallup.com and at www.PollingReport.com

Chapter 8 US Legislators and Their Constituents & Chapter 9 Congress as Legislature: Functions and Powers

The House of Representatives site is www.house.gov and the Senate www.senate.gov
The National Republican Congressional Committee is at www.nrcc.org and the Democratic caucus is at www.dcaucusweb.house.gov
The Library of Congress is at www.lcweb.loc.gov
For data on how members of Congress vote, see www.aclu.org/vote-guide

Chapter 10 The Presidency

The official site for the White House is www.whitehouse.gov
The Center for the Study of the Presidency is also useful at www.cs.presidency.org

Chapter 11 Bureaucratic Power: Federal Departments and Agencies

The Library of Congress lists the websites for all departments and agencies at www.lcweb.loc.gov
The Department of Justice is at www.us.doj.gov
State is at www.state.gov

Chapter 13 Organized Interests: The Real Power?

The AFL-CIO is at www.aflcio.org
The National Association of Manufacturers is at www.nam.org
The Business Round Table can be found at www.business-roundtable.com
Information on all the leading political action committees is provided at www.opensecrets.org/pacs/
Another good source on interest groups is the public interest organization Common Cause (www.commoncause.org)

Chapter 14 The Supreme Court and Judicial Politics

The official Supreme Court site is www.Supremecourtus.gov
Summaries of all the leading cases decided since 1937 are given at www.ndlaw.com/casecode/supreme/

Chapter 15 Regulating Morality: Civil Rights, Liberties and the Conscience Issues

On civil liberties see the ACLU site at www.aclu.org
The NAACP is at www.naacp.org
Emily's List supports female candidates and favours pro-choice candidacies (www.emilyslist.org).
The American with Disabilities Act has a website listing resources for the disabled at www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/

Chapter 16 Social Policy in America : Self – Reliance and State Dependence

The American Medical Association is at www.ama-assn.org
Consumer information on health maintenance organizations can be found at www.hmopage.org and on Medicare at www.medicare.org
The homepage of the Department of Health and Human Services is at www.os.dhhs.gov

Chapter 17 Managing Economic Change

The Council of Economic Advisers is at www.white.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/
The Office of Management and Budget is at www.access.gpo.gov/usbudget
The Federal Reserve is at www.federalreserve.gov

Chapter 18 The American World Role

The State Department is at www.state.gov and Defense is at www.defenselink.mil

Other websites of interest

Most of the US media have very good sites, including: