Political Science & Government: Web Resources

Comprehensive database of information on counties, including a listing of county officials, and links to Capitolimpact.com, which provides nationwide county statistics such as economic and demographic data.

Stats about all US cities - Compiles city statistics and other data from government and commercial sources. Includes demographic data, new building permits, crime statistics, monthly average weather data, available hospitals, universities, airports, public and private schools, and AM/FM radio stations.

Searchable white and yellow pages for all 50 states, plus information on state flags, songs, history flowers, population, tax forms, and lots more.

Search the entire Code of Virginia.

The Code of Virginia, for humans. Virginia Decoded is a private, non-governmental, non-partisan implementation of The State Decoded, an open source project that provides a platform to display state-level legal information in a friendly, accessible, modern fashion. Virginia is the first state to deploy the software.

Official site of the Governor of Virginia.

The NCSL Blog covers the practice of representative democracy, state politics and elections, and federalism, and it includes coverage on state policy issues and NCSL news and priorities.

Factsheets, news, and reports.

Main site: http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline Explore issues state by state, including the annual "State of the States" reports. From the Pew Center on the States.

Executive, Legislative & Judicial department sites and other state resources

Portal to all Commonwealth of Virginia websites.

Searchable site to determine legislator based on address. Also provides links to legislator's websites and includes email forms.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.

ADA home page sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

This collection houses the records of the U.S. Congress up to 1875. From the Library of Congress American Memory project.

A tool for increasing voter participation, this nonpartisan site allows you to track the status of appropriation bills, follow key votes, write your federal, state and local representatives or post messages to them online, and see
what actions have been proposed by a variety of groups.

Contacting your representatives in Congress in one of the best ways to make your voice heard in politics between elections. But because they deal with so many issues and vote on so many bills, it can be hard to know when something important is happening. Countable give you a road map.

Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Answers to questions about Federal agencies, programs and services.

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

Annual report form the U.S. Treasury, laying out the country's financial picture with real accounting and audited numbers.

A site for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research. Includes Blogs and Podcasts.

Part of the e-government project to consolidate information from all government agencies into easily usable category sites, this "free, confidential tool that helps you find government benefits you may be eligible to receive." Includes over 400 government benefit program.

Comprehensive federal, state, & local government links for all U.S. states and territories.

Complete list of links to all federal agencies and their information, elected officials, and much much more. from USA.gov

Independent Federal Agency which ensures continuing access to essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience

U.S. Department of Commerce site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community.

From the U.S. Internal Revenue Service

At the Library of Congress.

The home page of this office.

Where Americans can see where their money goes.

WorldStatesmen.org is an online encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and territories. The goal of this site is to provide readers with detailed lists of leaders, chronologies, flags, national anthems and maps to give an overview of polities past and present.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

The PATENTSCOPE database provides access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in full text format on the day of publication. The information may be searched by entering keywords, names of applicants, international patent classification and many other search criteria in multiple languages.