Roanoke College Public Affairs Department page
A Guide to Public Affairs Reference Sources

Recommended Internet Sites:

Criminal Justice:

• Justice Information Center- National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Uniform Crime Reports County Data

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Domestic Affairs:

• Agency Index-links to executive and independent agencies
• Census Watch 
• Century of lawmaking for a new nation (1774- )
• Congressional Research Service Reports
• Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
• FedWorld Information Network-
• LLRX.com- Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
• National Journal's Cloakroom (in-library use only)
• Political Information.com
• Political Science Resources on the Web
• Regulations.gov- Federal Regulations
• Politics1.com- News, polls, debates & issues
• State legal sources (by Univ. of Michigan)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• U.S. Government Documents
• Virginia- The Commonwealth’s homepage
• Virginia General Assembly 

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Elections:

• Virginia 2005
  Democratic Party of Virginia
  Tim Kaine- Governor
  
  Republican Party of Virginia
  Jerry Kilgore- Governor
   
• 2004 Election:
  Election 2004 (New York Times)
  Christian Science Monitor- Decision 2004
  Commission on Presidential Debates
  Common Cause
  Congress.org
  FactCheck.org
  Federal Election Commission
  John Kerry for President
  League of Women Voters
  On the issues
  Opensecrets.org- money in politics
  Vote Smart Web
  Voting Assistance Guide- absentee ballots

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Environment:

• EarthTrends: the environmental information portal
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
• Environmental Protection Agency- Window to My Environment
• National Library for the Environment

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International:

• Department of State- International Information Programs
• Diplomacy Monitor (sponsored by St. Thomas School of Law)
• Elections around the World
• EUROPARL: the European Parliament on-line
• Foreign Affairs Online
• Foreign Policy Association
• Foreign Relations of the United States (prior to 1/1/01)
• Global Policy Forum
• InfoNation (statistics)
• International Data Base (statistics)
• International Network Information Centers
• Links to Foreign Governments
• NationMaster
• United Nations Homepage
• UN Documentation Centre
• United Nations Statistics Division
• United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale University
• United States Department of State
• World Bank Group: Data and Maps
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

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Organizations:

• Amnesty International
• Derechos Human Rights Links
• Human Rights Watch
• International Committee of the Red Cross

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Political Parties:

• Communist Party USA
• Democratic National Committee
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Green Party
• Libertarian Party
• Natural Law Party
• Reform Party
• Republican National Committee

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