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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
- Almanac of Politics and Government
- Contemporary and historical information on U.S. and foreign governments, officials, parties, and economies.
- Atlas of the U.S. Presidential Elections
- Must be downloaded and viewed in Adobe Acrobat format. Contains charts and tables on voting trends, etc.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAONet)
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable full text of working papers and other resources in international relations.
- Congress Votes
- Browse all the votes in Congress since 1991 (102d Congress). Bills are organized by bill number and subject. Also contains brief biographical information about each Congress member.
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CQ Press Political Reference Suite
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Online access to the fulltext of CQ Press publications: Historic Documents, Politics in America, Political Handbook of the World, Congress and the Nation, and CQ Almanac.
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CQ Researcher
Remote Access
- Produced by Congressional Quarterly Press with coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, environment, technology, and the economy. Each report provides an overview, background, chronology, current situation, statements from opposing positions, and bibliography.
- GPO Access
- Searchable databases of government information: bills, CFR, Congressional Record, etc.
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Government Publications Catalog (Marcive)
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable database of publications (1976-) of the U.S. government. Also available on the Internet from the Government Printing Office with items from 1976- indexed.
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Homeland Security Digital Library
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers. Remote access not available. - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, the HSDL collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks.
For off-campus access to HSDL, St.Mary's students and faculty may request individual research accounts directly from the Homeland Digitial Security Library individual access page. Be sure to use your St. Mary's email account when you request your HSDL access. -
Lexis-Nexis
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Legal codes and cases; company financial information; full text magazine and newspaper articles. Documentation and a source list for the database are available.
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Military and Government Collection
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Provides fulltext for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.
More Political Science Databases
- Avalon Project (Yale University)
- Mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history,
economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Search or browse the Federalist Papers, the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Inaugural addresses of the Presidents, Colonial Charters and related documents, and hundreds of others from ancient to modern times.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-present
- Searchable biographies of members of Congress. Some have portraits and bibliographies.
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873.
- This searchable database will consist of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. The first release contains the records of the first two federal congresses, 1789-1793, including the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1793) and the Senate (1789-1793), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1805); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1838); and the
Journal of William Maclay (1789-1791), Senator from Pennsylvania in the first Congress.
- CIA Electronic Document Release Center
- Previously classified documents of the CIA are available at this site
- Commission on Presidential Debates
- A comprehensive archive of presidential debates with emphasis on the most recent.
- Documents on Mexican Politics (Alex Lopez-Ortiz, University of Waterloo)
- Scholarly, business-oriented, and popular press articles and other papers relating to Mexican politics, arranged by broad topic area.
- Election 2000: Congressional Races
- " current numbers on races in every state and congressional district in the nation. You can compare the candidates by the size and source of their contributions, the industries and interest groups that are supporting them, where the money is coming from geographically, and much more. "
- FECInfo The Non-Partisan Federal Candidate Campaign Money Page
- Searchable databases of campaign finances. Look up contributors, who has the most cash, soft money and more.
- Fourth World Documentation Project (Center For World Indigenous Studies)
- Search the full texts of over 500 essays, position papers, resolutions, organizational information, treaties, U.N. documents, speeches, and declarations on the Fourth World (nations forcefully incorporated into states which maintain a distinct political culture but are internationally unrecognized).
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Fireside Chats
- Transcripts of FDR's fireside chats
- George Bush Library
- Thousand of searchable and browsable full text Presidential papers of George Bush.
- Information About Candidates, Parties and Other Committees
- Find campaign finance information about the candidates in recent elections from the Federal Election Commission.
- John F. Kennedy Library: Reference Desk
- Speeches of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy; popular quotations, biography, and executive orders of JFK.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library: Oral History Transcripts
- Oral histories regarding the LBJ years available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat format.
- National Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
- Responses to a small portion of the questions that have been asked in the 1952-1994 National Election Studies organized into nine topics including voter demographics, ideology, partisanship, political involvement, voting behavior, and evaluation of the candidates.
- Opensecrets.org
- Information on money and politics, donors and those who accepted the money, culled from public records.
- Political Database of the Americas
- Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data
- Political Science Manuscripts
- Searchable abstracts of scholarly papers, including journal articles, conference papers, and unpublished papers. Full text is available for most of the papers.
- POTUS: Presidents of the US
- Biography and background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents
- PROceedings: Political Research Online
- Full text of 130 papers from the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association can be searched by author, title, and keyword abstract.
- Project Vote Smart
- Input your zip code and find out who your representatives in Congress are. Then locate biographical information, voting records, issue position, campaign finance information, and performance evaluations.
- Registered Federal Lobbyist Database
- Search for lobbyists by company came, client name or lobbyist's name. Tells who the lobbyists are, who they work for, and how much they are paid.
- Television News Archive
- Searchable achive of over 30,000 nightly news programs and special news-related programs such as presidential press conferences, Watergate hearings, etc. Abstracts are available online and loans of the programs themselves for a fee.
- United States Conference of Mayors
- Photos and contact information for mayors of larger U.S. cities along with information about the US Conference of Mayors.
- World Government Documents Archive: Declassified Documents Reference System-U.S.
- Primary source materials from the presidential libraries, FBI, CIA, and other government agencies. These were formerly classified, now declassified with the full text available. They are searchable and you can view a image of the original document to see what parts were removed from public view.
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