Political Science Resources: Organizations

The leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. Member publications include American Political Science Review, Perpectives on Politics, and PS: Political Science & Politics.

SWPSA is the largest affiliate of the Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA). The membership journal is Social Science Quarterly.

The Association is international, politically independent, non-profit and student-run, and aims to have global impact in the political science sphere. Publications include Politikon and A Different View.

The official membership journal is Political Research Quarterly. The Western is the association's newsletter.

The project investigates the sources and consequences of constitutional choices. Towards this end, the investigators are collecting data on the formal characteristics of written constitutions, both current and historical, for most independent states since 1789. The project also sponsors constitutionmaking.org

A joint project of the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The goal is to provide designers with systematic information on design options and constitutional text, drawing on the CCP's comprehensive dataset on the features of national constitutions since 1789. Constitutional drafters benefit from a comprehensive set of options when designing governing institutions.

A national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration. Founded in 1986 to to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training and to reduce the reliance on incarceration.

The project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain 90,144 documents, including the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.

Examines day-to-day press performance as well as the forces that affect that performance. Delivers real-time criticism and reporting, giving CJR a vital presence in the ongoing conversation about the media. Related projects include the News Frontier Database, Behind the News, The Audit (business), The Observatory (science), and Page Views (books & culture).