Resources for Participation in Democracy

Resources for Participation in Democracy:

Search Engines: which ones to use and how to use them.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Amazing collection of statistics. http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

CIA World Fact Book: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Common Cause: Campaign finance reform organization. http://www.commoncause.org

Encyclopedia: WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page The free and open encyclopedia. A great source to get started on a topic.

The Constitution of the United States of America: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/const.html

Write Your Representative: You can e-mail your rep. your thoughts. http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Political Parties:

Democratic Party - http://www.democrats.org
Green Party - http://www.greens.org
Libertarian Party - http://www.lp.org
Republican Party - http://www.gop.org
Where other parties can be found: http://home.luna.nl/~benne/pp/nam/us/

Voter Resources:

Open Secrets: See how much money your elected representatives
are getting from special interests. http://www.opensecrets.org/

Project Vote Smart - http://www.vote-smart.org

Public Citizen: Consumer rights advocates founded by Ralph Nader. http://www.publiccitizen.org

Thomas: Federal government resource from the Library of Congress. Great for tracking bills in Congress. http://thomas.loc.gov

U.S. Economy at a Glance: Bureau of Labor Statistics web site provides useful information. http://www.bls.gov/eag/

Western Connecticut State University Political Science Resources: http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/polscres.html

Contact John to recommend resources.