Links - Organizational Resources on the Presidency

American Political Science Association (APSA) Links:

APSA homepage

Political Research Online (PROL) from APSA and eight other associations is a searchable database on journal articles and conference papers, including those on the presidency.

APSA American Political Science Association - Section 9 (Presidency Research) (now at URL  http://www.apsanet.org/section_315.cfm) has Officers, Board of Directors, and Awards committee information per PRG's annual meeting held during the APSA meeting.

Publications - American Political Science Association (APSA) has links to the three APSA journals from APSA Journals:

• American Political Science Review, the research journal of APSA
• Perspectives on Politics, begun on March 2003 and now housing all APSA book reviews
• PS: Political Science & Politics, on recent and timely issues.

The APSA Organized Section List of 37 sections includes:

• Presidency Research (Section 9); also see
• Legislative Studies (Section 3)
• Political Communication (Section 23)
• Politics and History (Section 24)

APSA PROceedings (papers archive):

    index for 2003 and 2004 papers (at archive.allacademic.com/publication/index.php)

    earlier papers - sites are no longer operable (from either PROceedings Browse Papers or apsaproceedings.cup.org; don't waste your time at Google on these)

Midwest Political Science Association Links:

• MPSA Midwest Political Science Association home page
• American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)
• Annual Conferences of MPSA - 2005 MPSA Conference Program
• Midwest Political Science Associations Conference Archive -  index (2005 papers)

Southern Political Science Association Links:

• Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) home page
• The Journal of Politics; and The JOP Online or JSTOR Southern Political Science Association
• Annual Conferences of SPSA - 2005 Conference Information
• Southern Political Science Associations Conference Archive - index (2005 papers); or index (2004 and 2005 papers)

Other organizational Links:

• Center for the Study of the Presidency - The journal is Presidential Studies Quarterly.
   
• Congress and the Presidency: A Journal of Capitol Studies - a biennial journal, edited by Susan Webb Hammond and Charles E. Walcott
   
• White House Studies - a quarterly journal, edited by Robert Watson
   
• Legislative Studies Section - Check their extensive Links.
   
• Miller Center of Public Affairs with AmericanPresident.org, Presidential Oral History Program, and Presidential Recordings
   
• American Political Development from the Miller Center - See American Political Development - related links for website resources.
   
• H-Net Book Reviews Sorted by Author covers works by political scientists and historians on the presidency.  H-Pol Discussion Network has "scholarly discussion of American Political History."

Related Resources:

• The White House - The official White House site is www.whitehouse.gov.  All "White House" sites with suffix other than "gov" are imposters.
   
• NARA Presidential Libraries Main Page from National Archives & Records Administration has entree to 10 publicly managed presidential libraries.
   
• Internet Public Library POTUS has biographical data on all 43 presidents.
   
• U.S. Presidency Links - Russell D. Renka has several thousand links on the modern presidency.  Each modern president since FDR is separately handled via Modern Presidents from FDR to the Present.
   
• The American Presidency Project (University of California at Santa Barbara) has a Data Archive with 25 files, a Document Archive with 8 categories of material, an extensive Audio Video Archive on 20th century presidents, and a Presidential Elections Data file covering 1828 through 2004.
   
• Historian Richard Jensen's Political Research Guide by Richard Jensen - December 2004 includes section 21. Presidents.  Also see Jensen's American Political History On-Line with historical material organized by presidential periods.
   
• Federal Government Resources on the Web-President from Grace York at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has comprehensive governmental links plus other sources.
   
• Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections has extremely detailed maps, including county-by-county election outcomes from 1960 onward.
   
• AmericanPresident.org from PBS films on 20th century presidents includes Presidency in History and Presidency in Action.
   
•  PresidentS - An early PRG project to bring materials related to presidents onto the web, it includes Specific Presidents and General Information Sites.

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