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Political Science

Dependable resources for the study of Political Science, Politics, Public Policy,

Federal Government Websites

Congressional Budget Office
"Nonpartisan analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process." Provides reports and cost estimates.

Court Cases

FLITE (Federal Legal Information Through Electronics)
Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975. This system, on GPO's Fdsys website, contains the full text of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (U.S. Reports, Volumes 300-422). Cases are searchable by case name and full text.

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Decisions are available as ASCII text files that can be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed using most word processor programs.
You may use the Full Text Search option, but beware that the size of the database and the number of words (14.5 million) may require more than one search to find what you need.

Other Resources

Sunlight Foundation
Committed to improving access to government information by making it available online.
Brookings Institution
This think tank is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Research programs include Foreign Policy, Governance Studies, Metropolitan Policy Program, Global Economy and Development and Economic Studies

Last Updated: Oct 6, 2021 3:15 PM
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Subjects: Political Science

Tags: government, legislative history, political behavior, political science, political theory, public policy, statistics