This web page contains links to web resources that should be useful for students studying American politics and taking Political Science 12, 104, 151, 155, or and 175 at UCSB. In addition to sources covering Congress and Washington politics, I have included links to sites related to my research and teaching interests (other than Congress). The sites have been roughly grouped by the type of information they offer, but some sites could be listed under several headings because they offer a wide range of useful information. So when searching for information, be sure to investigate any site that looks useful irrespective of the heading below.

Political Science Students: When doing research for your papers, please remember that you are required to use a number of books and academic journals as research sources for your papers. Books and journals may be old-fashioned and low-tech, but there is far more useful and reliable information available in the library than on the web. You should regard the web as a useful secondary source of information for your papers, not as the primary source.

To jump to the web sites below, click on the site names. If you only want the web address, or URL, then point your mouse at the address to read the web address from your browser.

Legislation and Congressional Activity

• House of Representatives Home Page
  
• U.S. Senate Home Page
  
• Thomas: The Library of Congress's Congress Site
  
• Roll Call: The Capitol Hill Newspaper
  
• C-Span's Political Links
  
• The University of Michigan's Document Center on Congress
  
• Project Vote Smart's Congressional Voting Records
  
• The Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe--available only from UCSB IP addresses.

The U.S. Budget

• White House/OMB Budget Site - The FY 2003 Budget
  
• The House Budget Committee
  
• The Senate Budget Committee
  
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
  

Members of Congress and their Districts

• The University of Michigan's Document Center on Members of Congress
  
• Congressional Web Sites, 107th Congress
  
• Rep. Lois Capps - 22nd District, California

Political Parties and Related Organizations

• Democratic National Committee
  
• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
  
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
  
• College Democrats of America
  
• Young Democrats of America
  
• Democratic Leadership Council/Progressive Policy Institute
  

• Republican National Committee
  
• National Republican Senatorial Committee
  
• National Republican Congressional Committee
  
• Republican Governors Association
  
• College Republicans
  
• Log Cabin Republicans
  
• National Federation of Pachyderm Clubs
  
• National Federation of Republican Assemblies

• Constitution Party
  
• Green Party
  
• Libertarian Party
  
• Reform Party
  
• Socialist Party
  

Voter Turnout Organizations

• ELECnet - Election administration sources on the Net.
  
• Center for Voting and Democracy
  
• Project Vote!
  
• League of Women Voters
  
• Rock the Vote -- a voter registration group focusing on the young
  
• Southwest Voter Education Project
  
• Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
  
• Voter Contact Services -- county-by-county statistics
  

Campaign Finance and the Federal Election Commission

• The Federal Election Commission
  
• Another FEC Source
  
• The Center for Responsible Politics -- a campaign finance reform organization
  
• National Institute on Money in State Politics
  

• Professor Woolley's Presidency Page
  
• The White House
  
• The UCSB Library's Federal Government Resources Web Page
  
• Louisiana State U. list of federal gov't agencies
  
• The Environmental Protection Agency
  
• The Minerals Management Service (US Dept. of Interior)
  
• The Nuclear Regulatory Agency
  
• The Department of Energy

News Media Sites

Reading local newspapers is a particularly useful way to investigate districts. The media sites below are either major national news outlets or local Santa Barbara sources. Many other newspapers have on-line editions. To search for a newspaper coming from a particular city, try UCSB's InfoSurf News Page at the end of this list.

• Roll Call: The Capitol Hill Newspaper
  
• The Washington Post
  
• The New York Times
  
• The Los Angeles Times
  
• The Sacramento Bee
  
• The All Politics Site
  
• CNN - Cable News Network
  
• ABC News
  
• Fox News
  
• The Santa Barbara News-Press
  
• KEYT - Santa Barbara TV
  
• The Drudge Report--a wonderful source of political gossip and inside stories, some of which are true. The Drudge Report also offers a comprehensive set of links to other political columnists of all political stripes.
  
• The UCSB Library's InfoSurf News Media Web Page--links to other news media web pages

Public Opinion, Voting, and Elections

• American Association for Public Opinion Research (index to Public Opinion Quarterly
  
• Americans and the World - Public Opinion on International Affairs
  
• Council of American Survey Research Organizations
  
• Electoral Web Sites Political Databases (International)
  
• European Polls
• Fabrizio McLaughlin and Associates
  
• The Gallup Poll
  
• Hamilton Beattie and Staff
  
• The Harris Poll
  
• Indiana University, Public Opinion Lab Polling Links
  
• IRSS Home Page
  • IRSS Data Archive
  • Search the IRSS Public Opinion Poll Question Database (Harris and other polls)
  • National Network of State Polls
• University of Keele Gude to Resources on Polls (UK)
• The Marist Poll
  
• Mason-Dixon News Media Polls
  
• University of Michigan Survey Research Center
  • University of Michigan Library: Public Opinion
  • Center for Political Studies, including the National Election Studies
    
• National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
  
• Northern Arizona University Social Research Laboratory
  
  • The Arizona Survey
• The Pennsylvania Poll
  
• PEW Research Center for the People and Press
  
• PollingReport.com
  
• Princeton Survey Research Center
  
• Public Agenda
  
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, including POLL
  
• Social Science Data Archives - Europe
  
• Social Science Data Archives-North America
  
• Social Science Data Collection, from UCSD
  
• Southern Opinion Research
  
• Tarrance Group
  
• U.C. San Diego Social Sciences Data Collection
  
• Washington Post
  
• Zogby International
  
• Yankelovich Poll
  

General Resources on Politics and Public Policy

• The UCSB Library's Political Science Resources Web Page
  
• The Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe--available only from UCSB IP addresses.
  
• The Census Bureau
  
• The Statistical Abstract of the United States
  
• U.S. Commerce Department's Stat-USA - The best source of government data, available only from UCSB IP addresses.
• The Policy.Com Web Site

Environmental Interest Groups

• The Environmental Defense Center (of Santa Barbara)
  
• The Sierra Club
  
• CalPIRG
  
• The Western Fuels Association (of Coal-fired electric power plant operators)
  
• Chevron, Inc.
  
• Venoco, Inc.
  
• Exxon Mobil Corporation
  
• Resources for the Future

The Courts

• U.S. Congress Law Library - Guide to Law On-Line
  
• The Cornell University Law Library and Supreme Court Web Site
  
• The Internet Legal Resource Guide
  
• FindLaw
  
• FindLaw Constitutional Law Center

Those of you who are interested in going beyond SIMCONG and being congressional interns in Washington D.C. should also check out the UCSB Washington Center Program. This program offers UCSB juniors and seniors opportunities to intern in Congress, in the White House, in interest groups, in government agencies, and in hundreds of other political and cultural institutions and organizations in and around Washington, D.C.