Andrew Dunn
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http://research.understandingsociety.org.uk/findings/findings-2012 Understanding Society contains headline findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. This offers data on 14 topic areas using results from approximately 100,000 individuals in 40,000 households, as well as young people aged 10-15. Topics include social support networks, housework and gender, risky behaviours of 10-15 year olds, population diversity, employment and racial discrimination, immigrants […]
US Presidential Elections in Cartoons
Cartoons from the Cartoonist Group including 2012 editorial cartoons from top us newspapers http://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/subject/6219/The-2012+Election-Editorial-Cartoons.php Washington post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-cartoons-on-election-2012/2012/02/08/gIQAaNk61Q_gallery.html selection of the best so far. Finally some satire from the Onion http://www.theonion.com/section/politics/
US Elections and African Americans
The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America. http://www.naacp.org/pages/defending-democracy See more about their campaign http://www.thisismyvote.org/ which is encouraging black political participation during the elections. The resources section has a collection of articles covering race […]
The World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://sedlac.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/statistics.php Maintained by CEDLAS (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/ Specialisms include poverty, trade and finance, education and health and millennium development goals. Includes information from over 200 household surveys carried out in 25 countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, […]
Margaret Thatcher Foundation online papers
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/ The Foundation has released online private papers http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/1981cac4.asp from former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, from 1981 which include coverage of private discussion with Rupert Murdoch about his bid to buy the Times newspaper. The website also contains biographical information plus numerous online speeches and quotes. http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/default.asp The BBC archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/thatcher/index.shtml also has a […]
Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project
http://archives.nelsonmandela.org/#!home New resource created by Google in association with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to commemorate the life and political career of the man. On the blog you can find photographs, letters written during imprisonment and draft manuscripts for his autobiography. http://blog.google.org/2012/03/explore-mandelas-archives-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGoogleorgBlog+(Official+google.org+Blog) Other useful sites for full text documents on this period of South […]
US Election Advertising
Electad: http://electad.com/ An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews. Many newspapers also analyse the latest ads. See this example from the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/track-presidential-campaign-ads-2012/ If you are interested in ads, the Living room candidate enables you to view examples from […]
CITI for Cities.
Major project of CITIbank which aims to help revitalise the infrastructure and economic development of modern cities worldwide. Its remit includes regeneration, urban development, regulation, infrastructure, transport and services. The website includes news case studies and reports. http://www.citigroup.com/citi/citiforcities/
Year in Hate and Extremism 2011
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring Released by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sobering reading on the extent of racism and extremism (both left and right wing in USA). The website also has an online map of active US hate groups http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
Britain’s 50 New Radicals
The Observer and NESTA have published a list of people and organisations that they believe are changing the UK for the better. Many are community organisations or activists. View the full list by location. Each entry has a profile and link to website. http://www.nesta.org.uk/news_and_features/britains_new_radicals
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