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Select Foreign Digital Collections

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
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Election Ephemera Collections This link opens in a new window
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Commonwealth iLibrary This link opens in a new window
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National Governments Worldwide

National Government Websites and Country Overviews

Foreign Government Web Sites (Northwestern University Library)
Inter-Parliamentary Union - Web Sites of National Parliaments
Forum of Federations - List of Federal Countries
Country Background Notes (U.S. Department of State)
The World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency)
The Statesman's Yearbook
Print: JA 51 S79
Whole Earth Web Archive
Access archived government web content from 50 of the smallest countries in the world.

Heads of State and Elections around the world

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
CIA Publications - current heads of state and government officials
IPU Parline Database
Summaries for all parliamentary elections around the world, back to 1967.
Rulers
Lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories from 1700s to date
List of political parties by country (Wikipedia)

Constitutions, Treaties & Other Select Legal Resources

Constitutions of the World, 3rd ed.

Government Gazettes Online
University of Michigan & Dag Hammersköld Libraries
Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World (Law Library of Congress)
Multilaterals Project (Archived)
Tufts University - texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments
Political Database of the Americas
Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

Statistics Produced by National Statistical Agencies

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