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Political Science & Government

General | Voting and Elections | Government Administration

General

Policy Agendas Project
Enables the user to create graphs and charts of U.S. Congressional priorities, going back to 1946.

Vital Statistics on American Politics
Covers campaign finance, elections, political parties, public opinion and other topics.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK274.S74
Dewey Library - Reserve Desk | CDROM JK274.S74

Vital Statistics on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton
Provides an array of data on the presidency.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK518.R34 1998

Voting and Elections

America Votes
Dewey Library - Stacks | JK1967.A51 (latest on Reference)Primary and general election results for Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races.

American National Election Studies
Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Available via ICPSR or the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia.

Campaign Finance Reports and Data (Federal Election Commission)
Provides data on campaign finance by candidate, Political Action Committees, and party.

Congressional Roll Call
Record of roll call votes in both chambers of the United States Congress.
Dewey Library - Stacks | JK1051.C7494 (latest on Reference)
Via ICPSR

Elections in Africa: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JQ1879.A55.E44

Elections in Asia and the Pacific: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JQ38.E44 2001

Elections in the Americas: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JF1001.E363 2005

Elections in Western Europe Since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JN94.A95.C373 2000

International encyclopedia of elections
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JF1001.I57 2000
The above set of books provide historical statistics on election results in various regions of the world.

Lijphart Elections Archive
Research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. Covers early 1980s through 2003.

Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives: Election Statistics
Provides official vote counts from the states and territories for all federal elections from 1920-present.

United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: the Official Results of the Elections of the 1st through 105th Congresses
Compiles official election returns for members of Congress.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK1967.D77 1998

Government Administration

Budget of the United States Government
Collection of: budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.
Dewey Library - Reserve Desk |  CDROM HJ2051.A32
Dewey Library - Basement | HJ2051.A32 1948-

Census of Governments
Survey of state and local government organization, public employment, and government finance.
1992- available at U.S. Census Bureau Federal, State, and Local Governments page.
1957-1992 available at Dewey Library Stacks | JS3.A22 (latest on Reference)

Government Finance Statistics Yearbook
Information on revenue grants, expenditures, and debts for governments worldwide.
Dewey Library - Stacks | HJ101.G68 v.1 (1977)- (latest on Reference)

Govistics
Provides spending, revenue, employment and crime data for state and local governments and school districts across the U.S., pulling together data from different government sources.