Political Science 315: Legislatures and Legislation

Members of Congress and Their Districts: A Resource Guide for Political Science 315

• This is an extensive collection of resources, print and electronic, needed to compile political profiles of congressional districts and account for why districts elect the representatives they do.
• Includes sources of census, economic, and electoral data
• It contains information on:
  • General overviews of members and districts
  • Demographic and economic data on districts
  • Electoral and political data
  • Directories and biographies
  • Tracking what members do
  • Executive words and deeds
  • The legislative paper trail in the UIUC Libraries
  • Some general Internet sources About American politics
  • Pencek's tips for profiling a district

Legislative Actions and Publications Library Resource Guide

• Step-by-step resource to searching U.S. Congressional activities and finding the publications generated during the process.
• Contains assistance on how to utilize print, LexisNexis Congressional and Legi-Slate resources.

U.S. Bureaucracies, Laws, and Regulations: A Resource Guide for Political Science 315

• This is an extensive collection of resources, print and online, which are useful for completing your legislative and administrative-agency assignments.
• It contains information on:
  • Finding laws, programs and agencies by function
  • Finding laws, programs and agencies by name
  • Finding statutes
  • Legislative histories
  • Executive actions
  • Rules, regulations and bureaucratic lawmaking
  • Bureaucratic and agency publications
  • Administrative law
  • Introduction to government publications
  • Introduction to legal research
  • General Internet sources about politics
  • Pencek's tips for doing political analysis of laws and agencies

Link to Professor Sala's Political Science 315: Legislatures and Legislation course home index

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