POLS 131: Comparative Government and Politics (HC) [Spring 2013]: Background Information

See in particular the essays "African Development Prospects" and "Governance and Political Economy" as well as the individual country studies.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union maintains this database of information about houses of parliament worldwide.

This portal, geared to citizen needs, provides access to government services. It is translated into English. See also the sites for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliament.

From the National Portal of India

See research, publications, and corruption by country and topic under the tab "What We Do."

Note in particular the Human Development Reports and the country profiles.

"The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of globalization ... Covers [such] topics in the study of globalization as: agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods, coca-colonization, empire, Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, transnational corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum and, Zapatistas. Includes a number of key documents listed as entries such as the Kyoto Protocol and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights."--Publisher description.

"The WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge." - website description.

Cornell University Library maintains this rich website with pages on Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain.