Finding Country Information: Politics

"The world's constitutions to read, search, and compare."

The ElectionGuide, provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), is a source of election information that can be searched by country, including the United States.

CFR Education provides accessible, accurate, and authoritative resources for students and educators. Many topical reports on global issues can be searched by keyword and geographic regions. This includes teaching resources, lesson plans, discussion guides, timelines and videos.

This online collection provides electronic versions of 80 books previously published from 1980-2019 as part of the Country Studies Series by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in this historical series present a comprehensive description of the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world. See the U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets for more recent summaries.

Prepared by the Law Library of Congress, these guides link to free online resources regarding each country, focusing on their constitution; executive, legislative and judicial branches; legal guides; and general sources.

Produced by the US State Department, these fact sheets focus on US-country relations and activities, including US assistance, from a diplomatic perspective. Links to more information available from the Department of State and other sources are listed at the bottom of each page. See related Library of Congress Country Studies for earlier detailed publications.

"The Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation.” Created by the Council on Foreign Relations, it presents data, tables and world map visualizations on women who serve as heads of state, in cabinets, national legislatures, as candidates for national legislatures, and in local government bodies.