Links of Interest for Civic Engagement Resources

Contributed by Scott Keeter

Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Professor, Dept of Public & International Affairs, George Mason University


Politics Web Sites News and Media Organizations
Politics, Political Science, and Public Administration Civic Education Sites
Politics Web Sites
Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Cong. Elections

The Progressive Review's Morning Tout Sheet of Point Spreads
Political One - - Virginia politics online  (political1.com)
Vanishing Voter Project of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard
Center for Voting and Democracy
FEC Info from Public Disclosure, Inc.
Votenet.com
Vote.com (Dick Morris's site)
SpeakOut.com
Grassroots.com
Politics.com
AllPolitics Web Site
SelectSmart.com (matches voters with presidential candidates)
President Match (AOL - - matches voters with presidential candidates)
Project Vote Smart page (includes Congressional voting records)
Voter Information Services interest group ratings of members of Congress
Democracy Network / LWV (Dnet.org)
Politicalinformation.com (a search site for politics and policy)
VoxCap.com ("the Home of Online Activism")
Voter Information Services (database of congressional votes and ratings)
President Elect 2004
News and Media Organizations
MSNBC
American Journalism Review NewsLink page (search for newspapers)
Washington Post
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Weather Channel
Intellicast (an alternative weather source)
National Weather Service
CNN-Sports Illustrated
ESPN Sports Site
Hotwired
Slate
Salon Magazine
Politics, Political Science, and Public Administration
Voting and Registration Demographics (U.S. Census)
VCU Library Page of Government Documents and Links
Main site for U.S. Congress
Human Rights Campaign
National Archives Digital Classroom
Oyez Oyez Oyez: A US Supreme Court Database
U.S. Term Limits
The National Political Index
Teaching Politics web site
UCLA Center for Communication Policy media content analysis
Electronic Policy Network
Elections U.S.A.
Nominees for best political science web sites
Political simulations web site
Committee on health politics (affiliated with APSA)
Center for Bioethical Reform
Planned Parenthood
Voter Turnout from 1945 to 1998 (IDEA)
American Political Science Association
American Society for Public Administration
Historical data on U.S. House elections
Voting Integrity Project
State Politics and Policy Quarterly Data Resource
Civic Education Sites
"The Civic Mind": Law related civics education
Civic Education in Virginia Colleges and Universities
Australia's "Discovering Democracy"
Handbook for Instructors on the Use of Electronic Class Discussion
Campus Computing Project
Teacher Professional Development site "Tapped In"
Democracies Online
Public Achievement (National Youth Initiative of Humphrey Institute's Center for Democracy and Citizenship)
Congress Link
American Bar Association Division for Public Education
CivNet, an international resource for civic education and civil society
Close Up Foundation (nonpartisan citizenship education organization)
Social Studies School Service
Teaching Politics: Techniques and Technologies
"An Irreversible Trend?" (PACBell's Tocqueville Treasure Hunt)
"Look Who's Footing the Bill" (PACBell's exercise on the national debt)
San Diego State University's WEBQUEST site
DoHistory.org (experimental interactive case study)
American Bar Association Online Conversation on Law, Diversity, and the Vote
Surdna Foundation Effective Citizenry program