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Video

• www.ted.com TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). Students can search on any topic and find a related and interesting TedTalk

Web Resource

• www.apsanet.org The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics. A great resource for students to develop an initial understanding of political science and answer the question, why study politics.

• www.political-theory.org The Foundations of Political Theory is an organized section of the American Political Science Association that aims to promote the links between political theory and the discipline of political science.

• http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists encyclopedic entries on relevant authors, concepts, and terms.

• www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg provides free electronic versions of many classic works, including several of the older texts mentioned in this chapter.

• www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/polsci/polthought.html Vanderbilt University Library’s Political Thought Page offers a great collection of Web resources for students exploring an array of theories and ideologies.

• www.etalkinghead.com eTalkinghead, an online magazine, features in its Political Blog Directory a listing of political blogs covering an array of ideologies. Exploring these blogs is a great way to discover your own Field of Dreams.

• www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index is an up-to-date collection of editorial cartoons, which can be powerful tools for promoting ideologies and critiquing other ideologies.

• www.gocomics.com  Go Comics Editorial Cartoon index offers a comprehensive collection of daily political cartoons from some of the best cartoonists in the field. Go Comics collection of mainstream and cutting edge new comic material is also extensive.

• www.theonion.com The Onion provides a weekly satirical look at the major news of the day.

• www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html The University of Michigan Library Documents Center’s Political Science Resources on the Web is a great collection for students engaged in political science.

• www.votesmart.org   Project Vote Smart is an organization dedicated to providing voters with the essential information to self-govern effectively. Project Vote Smart strives to provide free, non-biased, in-depth, and accurate information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Vote Smart has amassed an incredible database of political information.

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Video

• http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxGreenville-Marsha-Wallace-T TEDxGreenville - Marsha Wallace - The Power of Collective Action

• www.dailyshow.com The Daily Show with Jon Stewart maintains a site that accompanies the television show’s satirical look at the news.

• thecolbertreport.cc.com The Colbert Report the website that accompanies the television show’s satirical look at politics and the news.

Web Resource

• www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv The National Security Archive at George Washington University is filled with articles and documents that demonstrate the U.S. concern for security.

• www.anarchism.net This site defines and discusses the many forms of anarchism.

• www.cato.org The Cato Institute is an organization concerned with limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and national security.

• www.archaeological.org Archaeology, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America, explores all aspects of human origins, including the origins of government.

• www.rand.org The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges. rand.org is filled with written reports and blogs on numerous policy areas.

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Web Resource

• http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index Surveillance & Society is an online journal dedicated to surveillance studies.

• www.scrappleface.com ScrappleFace is a site that pokes fun at the news.

• www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project University College London’s Bentham Project offers information about Jeremy Bentham and the Bentham Project, including the Panopticon.

• www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml The BBC’s George Orwell page offers information about George Orwell and other links.

• www.michel-foucault.com This site is one of many dedicated to Foucault and his writings.

• foucault.info An archive of Michael Foucault’s works including the excerpt "Discipline and Punish, Panopticism”. from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison.http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineandpunish/foucault.disciplineandpunish.panopticism.html

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Multimedia

• http://bunnies.learnliberty.org/index.html Tragedy of the Bunnies is a site offering a game that illustrates the tragedy of the commons. Be sure to read the explanation of “the moral” of the game.

• www.gametheory.net/dictionary/Games/StagHunt.html GameTheory.net’s version of the stag hunt offers a more mathematical approach to calculating the strategy of the hunt.

Web Resource

• www.weforum.org The World Economic Forum is an International Institution committed to improving the state of the world through public-private cooperation.

• www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html The History Guide’s Lectures on Modern Intellectual History includes a biography of Karl Marx and some summaries of his major works.

• www.marxists.org The Marxists Internet Archive is a clearinghouse of information about and writings by Marx and Marxists composed by Marxists from around the world.

• www.capmag.com Capitalism Magazine is an opinion site that extols the virtues of laissez-faire capitalism.

• www.federalreserveeducation.org  Federal Reserve Education.org Learn about the Federal Reserve’s history, structure, policies, and more.

• www.worldbank.org The World Bank website provides information about the World Bank, their mission, policies, and research.

• www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/06/virtual-currency Babbage Science and Technology Blog, in the Economist, takes a look at Virtual Currency, Bitcoin. An Informative, albeit dated piece.

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Multimedia

• http://www.usgovsim.net/USG U.S. GovSim invites players to raise funds, campaign, and play in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, and with a lot of skill and luck, the Presidency. Players take on the roles of members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and more -- all with infinite open-ended possibilities.

Web Resource

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/index.html The World Factbook, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s profile of countries around the world, contains a wealth of historical, political, and geographic information.

• www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers This site offers the complete collection of the Federalist Papers.

• http://www.loc.gov/collections/country-studies/about-this-collection The Library of Congress’s Country Studies site contains information about the social, economic, political, and national security systems of countries around the world.

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm The BBC’s Country Profiles site contains historical, political, and economic information about countries around the world.

• https://www.nytsyn.com/cartoons The New York Times political cartoons section showcases a collection of current political cartoons by syndicated cartoonists.

• www.parliament.uk/ This site presents a good history of the British Parliament.

• plato.stanford.edu/entries/legitimacy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Political Legitimacy.

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Multimedia

• www.icivics.org/games/win-white-house. Win the White House, Running for the presidency isn’t easy! InWin the White House, you get to manage your very own presidential campaign by strategically raising funds, polling voters, launching media campaigns, and making personal appearances. Keep a close eye on the map as you battle over electoral votes and popular support.

Web Resource

• www.whitehouse.gov This is the totally official White House website.

• www.thepresidency.org The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress maintains this site.

• www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/kings_queens.html This site explores the history of the kings and queens of England.

• www.gov.uk/government/organisations/prime-ministers-office-10-downing-street The Prime Minister’s Office at 10 Downing Street.

• www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/parliament-government This site details how the British Parliament and UK political system work.

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Audio

• www.capsteps.com The Capitol Steps are a group of former Senate staffers who satirize national politics through song.

Web Resource

• www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/researchpublications/bp334-e.htm The Canadian Library of Parliament site reprints “Electoral Systems,” Brian O’Neal’s short 1993 paper on the different types of electoral systems and their importance.

• http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/about/history_unicameral.php The Nebraska Legislature’s site provides a history of Nebraska’s decision to establish a one-house legislature.

• www.ncsl.org The National Conference on State Legislatures an organization all about the various state level legislatures in the United States.

• www.parliament.uk The United Kingdom’s Parliament Homepage

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Web Resource

• www.dbh.govt.nz This is the site for New Zealand’s building codes. Try to find the section on the regulations regarding the installation of central heating, Go on, I dare you.

• www.irs.gov The site for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is all one thing: forms, forms, forms.

• www.fema.gov The site for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) raises one simple question: Who you gonna call?

• www.worldbank.org This is the site for the World Bank, one of the best datagathering bureaucracies around.

• edge.sagepub.com/barbour7e. This site offers a collection of bureaucracy links from an American politics textbook, Keeping the Republic.

• https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a  Explore the directory of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies.

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Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9prhPV2PI This video features John Oliver on his HBO show Last Week Tonight criticizing the Supreme Court’s refusal to allow cameras during oral arguments in the court chamber.

Web Resource

• http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.php This site features jurist, law, and legal news from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law.

• http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6 The site for the European Court of Justice contains information, case law, and news about the Court.

• http://www.ncsc.org The National Center for State Courts offers a resource for research, publications, and educational material about the courts in the U.S. states.

• www.stus.com Stu’s Views is a compilation of cartoons about the law and lawyers.

• www.uscourts.gov The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts provides all types of information about U.S. federal courts.

• http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/events This site, maintained by the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, provides links to sites for the world’s constitutional courts and equivalent bodies.

• www.worldlii.org The World Legal Information Institute presents an international directory of legal resources.

• www.oyez.org The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.

• www.scotusblog.com  The Supreme Court of the United States Blog, read on recent court rulings, statistics on the courts, multimedia special features.

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Multimedia

• http://edibleballot.tao.ca The Edible Ballot Society, which criticizes elections, promotes people protesting by eating their ballots; recipes are included.

• www.ciconline.org/elections This site contains eLECTIONS, a very basic simulation of presidential elections that also has information about the U.S. electoral system.

• www.isidewith.com I Side With offers students the opportunity to explore their political ideology via a political quiz, but also connects students to current events and polling data on current issues.

Web Resource

• www.fairvote.org FairVote, the Center for Voting and Democracy, is an organization dedicated to electoral reform. This site provides news and information about elections.

• www.iandrinstitute.org The Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California reports about initiatives and referenda and their uses.

• www.vote-smart.org/index.htm Project Vote Smart offers information about candidates and issues across the United States.

• www.people-press.org/topics/elections-and-campaigns Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, data on elections and campaigns.

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Video

• www.thedailyshow.com The site for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart supports the program, which takes a satirical approach to the day’s political news.

• www.colbertnation.com/home The site for The Colbert Report supports the program, which offers a parody of conservative political news pundits.

Web Resource

• http://mediamatters.org Media Matters for America is devoted to exposing conservative bias in the news.

• www.americanpressinstitute.org The American Press Institute, created by newspaper publishers, focuses on the training and development of journalists and news outlets.

• www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psnews.html The University of Michigan’s Library Document Center presents a list of links related to the news media.

• http://www.mrc.org The Media Research Center is devoted to exposing liberal bias in the news.

• http://www.onlinenewspapers.com A source for international newspapers, accessible in English as well as other languages.

• http://www.whca.net/ Whitehouse Correspondents’ Association, students can learn about the history of the White House correspondents, explore blogs about Presidential Coverage by several of the Whitehouse Correspondents.

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Web Resource

• http://europa.eu/index_en.htm The Europa: Gateway to the European Union site includes news and information about the European Union.

• www.du.edu/~bhughes/ifs.html Barry B. Hughes’s International Futures site links to a computer simulation of global systems for classroom and research use.

• www.imf.org The International Monetary Fund’s site provides information on this organization of 184 countries that aims to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

• www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-political-economy European Journal of Political EconomyThe aim of the European Journal of Political Economy is to disseminate original theoretical and empirical research on economic phenomena within a scope that encompasses collective decision making, political behavior, and the role of institutions

• www.un.org This site provides information about the United Nations, its member nations, its policies, and more.

• http://en.unesco.org In 1945, UNESCO was created in order to respond to the firm belief of nations, forged by two world wars in less than a generation that political and economic agreements are not enough to build a lasting peace. Peace must be established on the basis of humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity.www2.etown.edu/vl/research.html. The World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources page contains a list of research institutes focused on international relations.

• www.globalization101.org/what-is-globalization is dedicated to providing students with information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.

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Multimedia

• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealthy-congratulations-you-live-in-a-bubble/ Take the quiz and find out if you live in a political or cultural bubble.

Web Resource

• www.brotown.co.nz Check out the official site for bro’Town, New Zealand’s first prime-time animated TV show.

• http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi Civil Society International assists organizations that work for democracy and civil society in hostile countries.

• www.fowler.ucla.edu UCLA’ s Fowler Museum of Cultural History explores past and present art and material culture to foster an understanding of cultural diversity.

• www.haka.co.nz This site is all about New Zealand rugby.

• http://academic.regis.edu/jriley/421elazar.htm Daniel Elezar defines three political cultures for the United States and maps out where they exists within regions of the United States