Comparative Politics Links General Comparative Politics Information: • Nationmaster (the best one-stop site for comparative statistics--check it out!) • The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (an outstanding page of links!) • Freedom House (A conservative US think tank that provides good comparative data and rankings). • World Audit (A Freedom House site that contains great comparative rankings and data.  It includes country-by-country summaries). • Rulers (A site that contains information on current and past leaders of every country in the world). • Political Science Resource Pages (a UK site with area studies links broken down by country) • Transparency International (good comparative source on corruption) • The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index (great comparative indicators on the rule of law) News Sources Online (English Language) • The BBC (The UK's leading news organization) • The Economist (outstanding weekly from London) • The New York Times (One of the most authoritative US dailies) • The Washington Post (One of the most authoritative US dailies) • The Christian Science Monitor (Excellent international news) • USA Today (A good source of graphics and pro-con editorial opinions) • Yahoo/Reuters World News (divided into regions) (A wonderful source of international news, editorials, and photos). • Watching America (A great place to find foreign-language editorials translated into English) Electoral Systems: • Elections and Electoral Systems (Information on forms of proportional representation) • Elections: Results and Voting Systems (More on proportional representation) • PR Library: Readings on Proportional Representation (good explanations of how PR works in comparison to the US system) • The Center for Voting and Democracy (information on different electoral systems). Parliaments: • Inter-Parliamentary Union (a great source on constitutions and elections) International Organizations and Governmental Agencies: • Amnesty International (good source for human rights information) • CIA World Factbook (good source for basic background information) • Greenpeace International (good source for environmental data) • International Monetary Fund (good source of economic data) • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (good source for economic data) • United Nations (all kinds of wonderful information) • World Bank (good source of economic data) • World Trade Organization (good source of trade data) • Area Studies: Click on the area below for some useful lists: • Latin America • United Kingdom

Last Updated: March 15, 2019