U.S. Politics

Historic legal documents and treaties from around the world with special emphasis on the American Colonies.

Replaced FDsys in 2018.

Allows users to search for and track legislation being debated in the U.S. Congress. They can an set up alerts for particular bills and pieces of legislation as well as follow individual Congress members’ work on bills and resolutions, voting records, and committee work.

Includes policy and strategy documents, special collections including CRS reports, search by topics, excellent research tools. Links to datasets about hazards, immigration, law enforcement, public health, terrorism and transportation.

Read about US policy, foreign policy, economics and governance in the US.

Just after each Presidential election, the “United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions,” is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

View government agencies and elected officials; state, local and tribal government information

Searches the websites of 700 institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity

FAS provides science-based analysis/solutions to protect against catastrophic threats to national and international security. Excellent resource for key issues, publications including CRS Reports.

Searchable collections include: U.S. Federal Documents, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Bureau of Indian Affairs publications, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Foreign Relations of the United States, Statistical Abstract of the United States, U.S. Civil Rights Commission

From the U.S. Census Bureau, these datasets contain a variety of information from household income to ethnic and racial profiles of various groups across the country.

Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists

Search 200,000 datasets at the federal, state, or local level by topic

Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.

Allows users to search for and track legislation being debated in the U.S. Congress. They can an set up alerts for particular bills and pieces of legislation as well as follow individual Congress members’ work on bills and resolutions, voting records, and committee work.

Search for words or phrases in the title field, by investigator, by study number or in all fields of this huge collection of data sets at the University of Michigan. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a member of ICPSR.

Links to a large collection of social science research data

Provides population, housing, agricultural, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for geographic units in the United States from 1790 to the present.

Cooperative program between the states and the Census Bureau that was created in 1978 to make data available locally to the public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and regional and local governments

Federal, state and local government data portal started by Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO

Ratings of media outlets on their relative partisan bias. Users can compare news coverage from across the political spectrum.

View Congressional, Executive and Judical footage including House and Senate floor proceedings and Supreme Court oral arguments

Tracks deleted tweets by public officials, including people currently in office and candidates for office.