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UK Political Parties
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The Conservative Party |
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The Labour Party |
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The Liberal Democratic Party |
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Scottish Green Party |
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Scottish Socialist Party |
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Official goverment pages
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General information about government
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TV on the Web has live debates and PM Question Time
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Live pictures of MPs at work when Parliament is sitting.
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The Commons |
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Members of the Scottish.Parliament, and the Welsh National Assembly, listed by constituency/region, including election results and, where known, the email address and website address for each MSP.
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Encyclopaedia of British History: Parliamentary legislation passed by Parliament between 1700 and 1930. There is also a section on Parliamentary reform 1700-1832The House of Commons within the UK Constitution: Prof. Clive Walker's teaching material on Parliament
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The Bodleian Library's Modern Political Papers has information on the Library's holdings. 'Modern' in this context seems to mean after around 1840.
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Election information
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The National Opinion Polls site has monthly data from the surveys for The Sunday Times.
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General information
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Politics Direct has a good range of information |
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Julian White's British Politics Page has extensive information and links to many sources relevant to British politics.
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Ivor Peksa's British Politics page has good election information. |
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The British Politics Group |
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ThreeLineWhip.com has up-to-date political news, debate, information, on-line voting etc.
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UK Online political page |
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Other
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National Audit Office. |
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Facts and figures about non-departmental public bodies. |
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Committee on Standards in Public Life. (Nolan Committee). |
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Public Record Office |
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The Monopolies and Mergers Commission. |
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Home Office - Research Development and Statistics Directorate. |
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List of Citizens' Charters available on the Internet |
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Bank of England. |
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British Chambers of Commerce. |
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Companies House |
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Commission for Racial Equality. |
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Countryside Commission |
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Ordnance Survey. The national mapping agency of Great Britain. |
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The Tony Blair Dossier. |
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Falklands-Malvinas Forum. |
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UK Ratifiers for Democracy - democratic reform in the UK |
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Local and Regional Government
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Guide to UK Devolution on the Web |
Ireland
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Northern Ireland Office Online |
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Northern Ireland Government Departments |
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Northern Ireland peace agreement: Multi-Party Agreement, and British-Irish Agreement, 10th April 1998
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The Vote "Yes" campaign in the 22 May referendum, 1998 |
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Royal Ulster Constabulary |
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Information on the search for a political settlement. |
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Lyndon Nixon's Northern Ireland Peace Process website |
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Northern Ireland News Site |
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Anglo-Irish Political Links |
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Sinn Féin's information on the British Military Garrison in Ireland. |
Scotland
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Scottish Executive |
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Scottish Parliament |
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Scottish and general UK links |
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Scottish Politics Page |
Wales
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Welsh National Assembly |
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Index to Network Wales |
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Welsh Politics page from Lyn David Thomas. |
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GJW Cymru Wales has information on the Assembly. |
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German Government and Politics
English language sources on the web
Political Institutions
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Bundesregierung (Federal Government) |
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Deutscher Bundestag (Lower House) |
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Deutscher Bundesrat (Upper House) |
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The Federal President |
Parties
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CDU |
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CSU |
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SPD |
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FDP (In German Only)
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Greens (with link to English version) |
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PDS (Former East German Socialists) |
Media
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (daily conservative national newspaper) |
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Magazine on Politics, Culture, Business... |
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Deutsche Welle (select English) (Radio and TV-excellent source of info including a review of the German Press in English) |
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Search Engine
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Online politics
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Nexus, Britain's first virtual think-tank |
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UK Citizens Online Democracy has a page on freedom of information. |
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The British Youth Council has information on young people's participation and political involvement
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The Centre for Citizenship gives the lowdown on the flaws in British democracy
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YouGov: a website devoted to e-democracy where you can vote on issues of the day etc
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UKPolitics Brief has some links and offers notes for A Level students. |
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US Study Links
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The Independent Counsel's Report to the United States House of Representatives (the Starr report) is available from the House, the Judiciary Committee,the Library of Congress, the GPO site, CNN, Associated Press, or at the Washington Post. The preliminary rebuttal by the White House may be seen at the GPO site, and of course at the White House site.
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Guides on how to find Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations are offered by University of Florida and Albany Law School
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Information on President's War Powers and text of the War Powers Resolution. Also information on presidential compliance with the resolution
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FinanceNet deals with issues of fiscal finance and provides electronic documents and mailing lists
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The Financial Statements of the United States Government are available online along with other Federal agency audited statements at Financenet, and on the Treasury FMS website
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Fedworld Information Network |
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GovBot: Database of Government Websites |
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The Federal Web Locator attempts to provide links to all federal government information on the Internet. |
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Lists of Government servers. |
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NSF's list of US Government gopher servers |
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Congress: Legislative Information on the Internet. Includes full text versions of House and Senate bills, searchable by keyword, for the 103rd and 104th Congresses. |
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The LEGI-SLATE, includes a public access gopher that allows unrestricted access to portions of the service. Information available includes title of bill, number, date, current status, sponsors, list of versions, list of committee reports. |
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Roll Call Online. News and information about Congress. |
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Congressional Observer Publications offers a subscription service for congressional voting details, but also offers some free information, including lists of votes by title. |
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Votenet is an online community serving politicians, candidates, and citizens alike, of any political party. |
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Capitol Watch: votes and news reported daily. |
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Congress.org guide to Congress |
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List of federal agencies on the Internet |
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UCSD GPO Gate. A searchable index of The Federal Register, The Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, History of Bills, GAO Reports, and the United States Code
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US Intelligence Community. |
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The Congessional Email Directory includes websites and email addresses. |
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The Gateway Overview offers access to information on Congress, state agencies, courts, etc.
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US Government Manual 1994-5. |
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General Accounting Office. |
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The US General Services Administration - contains information provided by GSA, region 3 (federal policy guidance, procurement, information technology, telecommunications, real property management.
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The Political Insider has up-to-date briefings on current issues
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Political Resources has candidates with websites, links to State Party Offices, and a range of general links. |
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Project Vote Smart. has a large number of political links. |
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Voter Information Services. Offers ratings and voting records. |
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Financenet electronic library. |
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Index of Presidents of the US has links to documents and other relevant information |
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Grolier online presidential biographies. |
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Inaugural Addresses of all US Presidents. |
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Information about material held in Presidential Libraries |
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The Eisenhower Centre |
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Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation. |
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Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum |
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George Bush Presidential Library. |
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Harvard Law School Forum Audio Archive has historic recordings. |
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Judicial Branch |
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Fedworld/FLITE historic file of Supreme Court decisions. |
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Supreme Court Oral Argument Archive. |
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Supreme Court opinions from the current term, available as soon as they are handed down. |
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The Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection has opinions since May 1990, a page on the Justices of the SC |
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JURIST's Supreme Court Guide |
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Federal court opinions and rules |
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List of State Courts websites from the NCSC. |
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Federal Judiciary home page. A clearinghouse for information about the judicial branch, it has a newsletter |
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Federal Judicial Center publications. |
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Offices of the Inspector General. Information on audits and inspections of government agencies. (Gopher). |
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National Conference of State Legislatures. |
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US Government Hypertexts: various policy documents in hypertext form.
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GPO Access: Federal Government information online. |
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OMB Watch monitors the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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CIVIX. A complete compilation of the budget funding requests from every federal agency
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The December 1995 Budget impasse. A history of the impasse, including budget statistics.
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Information about Congress including Congressional Committee Assignments.
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Senate Republican Policy Committee. |
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National Performance Review |
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Government According to Dan O'Shea. |
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Mark Gribben's Politics Page has information on the budget process, deregulation, and non-profit interest groups, together with government links.
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Charles Tatton has a useful collection of links to mainly US sites, including information on U.S. States and Territorial Politics
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CourtTV: government documents. |
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Democratic Leadership in the House. |
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The Democratic Caucus, including history, membership, and minutes of meetings.
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Issues relating to Hawaiian independence |
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs |
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The National Budget Simulation. Includes links to other sites carying budget analyses.
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The Alliance to Expose Government Corruption and Corporate Irresponsibility. This page has information on the misuse or abuse of power by public servants.
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US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project. |
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Yahoo news summary |
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Atlantic Unbound Articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive and related links
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CNN / TIME All Politics site |
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Good news sites are CNN, and the Washington Post |
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Political Information dot com |
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National Public Broadcasting Archive. |
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Eye on New York - the lowdown on New York politics. |
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Vermont Legislative Research Shop |
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Douglass: Archives of American Public Address |
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PollingReport.com reports the latest U.S. national polls on politics and public policy
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The White House Report is a magazine focusing on the White House with a daily report providing an inside chronicle of white house happenings
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Lexrex computer game site. |
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Left, Right and Center has a collection of diverse political links |
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Campaign Finance
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American University Campaign Finance website |
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Campaign Finance Information Center |
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FECInfo A non-partisan place to discover who gave what to which Federal candidates when...
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Opensecrets.org an online source for data on money in politics.
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Yahoo links to the finance of State campaigns |
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EU
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Law and Order
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The Police Service of the UK |
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Links to all sorts of sites on prisons and criminal justice |
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Crime Rates and Statistics |
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The Prisons' Handbook |