Political Science Research Guide

Find information related to the Defiance city government, including Board and Commissions, City Council, and the Municipal Court.

Find information about upcoming elections, elected officials, voter registration, and more!

Official website of the Ohio Democratic Party.

Official website of the Ohio Republican Party.

Official website of the Governor of Ohio, Mark DeWine.

Official website of the U.S. Democratic Party.

The official website of the U.S. Republican Party.

Nonprofit "digital encyclopedia of American politics," with information on elections, politics, and policy.

"The FEC publishes Federal Elections, a biennial compilation of official, certified federal election results. These publications include primary, runoff and general election results for the Senate, the House of Representatives and (when applicable) the President."

"Provides links to the details of the results of the latest parliamentary election in every country."

Read short biographies of each of the presidents crafted by the White House Historical Association.

"Non-profit and non-partisan, the APP is the source of presidential documents on the internet. The project is hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara and houses over 152,000 records related to the American presidency."

Over 25 hours of streaming video from the PBS Presidents series, including a detailed summary page for each U.S. President, a detailed bibliography, collections of primary sources, and more!

"Voting America examines long-term patterns in presidential election politics in the United States from the 1840s to today as well as some patterns in recent congressional election politics."

"Contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952."

"Exhibit of U.S. presidential campaign memorabilia drawn primarily from the holdings of the Duke University Special Collections Library. The exhibit illustrates the nation's presidential elections in letters, sheet music, leaflets, buttons, and bumper stickers."

Access full transcripts of major speeches and addresses given by each U.S. President. When available, the collection also includes audio and even video recordings of the speeches.

Brief explanation of the polling process from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

"A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Pew Research Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research."

"Searches the websites of over 1,200 research institutions and think tanks that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. Results include both partisan and non-partisan think tanks."

"Comprehensive digital library of public policy research funded by various U.S. think tanks, universities, government agencies, and foundations. Contains over 30,000 documents."

Professional organization dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.

The official website of the European Union contains profiles of member countries, legal and budgetary information, lists of priorities for the EU, recent press releases and news articles from EU institutions, and much more!

The official website of the United Nations contains a multitude of resources, including documents housed in the UN Digital Library, collections of both general and thematic maps, and in-depth information regarding crucial issues addressed by UN campaigns.

"Directory of over 2,000 annotated links to high-quality English-language resources for a wide range of current international affairs, international relations, international studies, global studies, and global education topics. These sites are recommended for regular research use, and are carefully selected for their cost-free, authoritative, and reliable information and analysis."

"The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity."

"Makes available interview transcripts from the oral history archives of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST). These transcripts present a window into the lives of U.S. diplomats and the major diplomatic crisis and issues that the United States faced during the second half of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st."

"The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world."

"Provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."

"The United States government's open data website. It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the federal government. Data.gov is intended to provide access to government open data to the public, achieve agency missions, drive innovation, fuel economic activity, and uphold the ideals of an open and transparent government."

Search across multiple sources including official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections.

Free and open access to global development data.

"Research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. These data are gathered from a number of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private sector firms."

"Learn about America's communities through our data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, we cover topics like education, employment, health, and housing just to name a few."

Federal agency that manages and enforces the rules pertaining to financing of federal elections.

Nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that collects data related to campaign money spent on state elections and public policy.

Tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.

"This comprehensive database utilizes advanced data science techniques to parse more than one million lobbying reports filed in the US."

"The official open data source of federal spending information."