Exogenous Variables: New Leadership

Comprehensive scanning of political news in newspapers worldwide. (World News Network)

Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from around the world

Links to Internet resources on politics, edited by the British Library of Political and Economic Science

Lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700. Edited by B. Schemmel.

Focuses worldwide elections on a country basis. Edited by Wilfried Derksen, international secretary of the Dutch social-liberal party Democraten 66.

The "largest, most comprehensive and most up-to-date archive of electoral information in the world", with election statistics from 172 countries. Created and maintained by Dr. Adam Carr of Melbourne Australia

The Central Intelligence Agency publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly.

News about Non-Governmental Organizations, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society. NGOs use their financial resources to pressure political leaders.

Extensive links to sites reporting political polls in the United States.

An encyclopedia of the heads of state and heads of government (and, in  certain cases, de facto leaders occupying neither of those formal positions) of all countries and territories of the world. Edited by Ben Cahoon. Very extensive, with historical backgrounds.

Tables of political parties and leaders, organized by All Refer.com.

Published by the Internet Center for Corruption Research, compiled by the University of Passau, on behalf of Transparency International.

This index measures the amount of freedom journalists and the media have in each country and the efforts made by governments to see that press freedom is respected. Sponsored by Reporters Without Borders.

A systematic, empirical measurement of economic freedom in countries throughout the world, updated yearly by the Heritage Foundation.

Short biographies on 25,000 of the "greatest lives, past and present", from Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Saddam Hussein.