Subject guide: political science

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Websites

• GPO Access -- portal to United States government information.
  
• THOMAS (Library of Congress) -- legislative information, bills before the U.S. Congress, etc.
  
• Federal government links
  
• International and Inter-Governmental links
  
• Political Science Links at the Vanderbilt University Library

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Reference

• Find The Encyclopedia of American Political History
• Oxford Reference