Links to Sources on
the Presidency
(This is only a very small fraction of the things that are out there. But these are sources that you might find useful.)
Official Sites (governmental and institutional)
The White House (The official government page)
The Executive Office of the President
Statistical
Abstract of the United States (
Politics and
Elections
National Archives and Records Administration info on the electoral college
Commission on Presidential Debates (non-partisan organization that sponsors presidential debates)
President Elect (history of the electoral college)
Democracy in
Action page –
Center for Responsive Politics (analysis of the fundraising issues and who is collecting what money from whom)
Center for Public Integrity (non-profit group that tracks lobbying and campaign fundraising)
Public Citizen’s 527 page (also tracks fundraising by 527 non-profit political organizations)
Campaigns and Elections (Congressional Quarterly’s campaign magazine)
Yahoo Directory on the 2004 Election
Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections (super data on voting and outcomes; the best easy to use source for this nationwide and state by state).
Electoral College charts (private site that has great charts)
Real Clear Politics (tracks all elections and key issues at state and federal level; an archive of info from all kinds of sources)
Politics1 (tracks election races around the nation; the advertisements make it look like it leans to the liberal side, but it is pretty non-partisan in its articles. It has some good stuff, but also tracks weirdness in politics. Scroll down the right side of the page and there are links to Blogs from right, center, and left)
Scholarly and
Non-Profit
Yahoo Directory of Presidential Websites
Center for the Study of the Presidency (scholarly organization devoted to presidential studies)
Concord Coalition (non-partisan organization that tracks government spending, the federal deficit, and the national debt)
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (scholarly and non-partisan organization that tracks government spending, the federal deficit, and the national debt)
Presidential Web Sites (sponsored by several universities and some non-profits, has links to presidential libraries and web sites on all presidents)
US
Presidency links (Phenomenal
resource; Prof. Russell Renka’s page (Southeast
Missouri State University).
Legislation and
Policy
Thomas (Library of Congress’ page that tracks legislation)
Congressional Quarterly Weekly (journal that tracks what goes on in congress, bill by bill, vote by vote; this is one of the magazines that members of congress read)
US Supreme Court home page
Legal Information Institute (compendium of Supreme Court decisions)
Government Accountability Office (GAO -- had been the General Accounting Office – congressional bipartisan arm that examines every policy with regards to implementation and costs. The basic governmental arm for program evaluation)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO -- bipartisan congressional arm that examines the federal budget proposals of congress and the president)
Congressional Research Service (CRS) sites
Marian Gould Gallagher Library at University of Washington School of Law page on CRS (indexes and lots of links; the biggest source for CRS reports)
Non-governmental organization search page
CRS reports on defense and national security (Federation of American Scientists)
CRS reports on foreign policy compiled by the US State Department
Center for Democracy and
Technology, Open CRS page (Non-profit organization’s
page that is attempting to lobby congress to get CRS reports made available to
the public; all the links above on CRS are pdf files
of CRS reports that have been given to these non-profit organizations by
members of congress, even though they are officially barred from doing so. This page also has links to CRS reports)