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
Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections. The 2012 project is aiming to increase female political participation. It includes: 2012 Women’s Election Tracker http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/site/pages/election_tracker.php which is following the progress of women through this election cycle – it has state by state statistics for women in Congress and state […]
US Census bureau historical voting publications
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/historical/index.html Statistical data on US national and presidential elections. Voting and Registration data has been collected biennially in the Current Population Survey since 1964. Data includes: Reported Voting and Registration by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Age Groups: November 1964 to 2010. Also the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk collects and publishes the […]
UN Document Digitisation Project
The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme. In particular it is listing pre-1993 items which are being added to the UN ODS Official document system. http://ods.un.org/
European Foreign Policy Scorecard
http://ecfr.eu/scorecard/2012/ Published annually by European Council on Foreign Relations since 2010. It assesses Europe’s performance in pursuing its interests and promoting its values in the world. The 150 page report has separate chapters on policy towards China, Russia and USA. It includes analyses of the EU as a whole and the contribution of member states. […]
European Politics and Policy blog (EUROPP) launched
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/about-europp/ Launched this week, a new blog from the London School of Economics. It aims to provide topical comment and discussion covering all aspects of European governance and decision making, both at the EU level and national level. It will include regular book reviews, and Brussels blog round ups.
Security in Transition
http://www.securityintransition.org/ Security in Transition is a 5-year-research programme based at the London School of Economics, funded by the European Research Council. Its primary focus is examining security in the post-communist post 1989 world. Concentrating on the ‘security gap’ which refers to the gap between national and international security capabilities, largely based on conventional military forces, […]
New Economics Foundation
http://neweconomics.org/ Aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues.
Cartoon movement
http://www.cartoonmovement.com/ Cartoon Movement is a community of international editorial cartoonists and fans of political satire originally set up by set up by Tjeerd Royaards, a Dutch editorial cartoonist. It seeks to promote examples of good political and satirical cartoons. Browse the online gallery. They include political cartoons with recent examples relating to Syria. the environment […]
European Forum of Official Gazettes
http://circa.europa.eu/irc/opoce/ojf/info/data/prod/html/index.htm Created in 2004 by the organisations responsible for publishing the official gazettes of the European Union Member States and the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Official gazettes are often excellent sources of information from national governments including legal announcements, notification and texts of bills, excellent directory of information on official journals […]
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