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Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Reports CORE
Analysis of political and economic trends for more than 30 countries Central America, South America and the Caribbean. [Tulane Subscription]
Economist Intelligence Unit: Market Indicators & Forecasts CORE
A database of of current information on industries, wages, markets, demographics, infrastructure and the environment for more than 30 countries Central America, South America and the Caribbean. [Tulane Subscription]
Economist Intelligence Unit: Viewswire CORE
Country-specific forecasts and risk assessments for Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
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International Political Science Abstracts CORE
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. [Tulane Subscription]
PAIS International and Archive CORE
Covers the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. [Tulane Subscription]
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Brazilian Government Documents Digitization Project
Effort of the Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to digitize executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889.
Constituciones Hispanoamericanas (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)
LANIC: Government & Law in Latin America
Latin American Databank (Roper Center, University of Connecticut)
Archive of public opinion surveys conducted by the survey research community in Latin America, including universities, institutes, individual scholars, private polling and public opinion research firms.
LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project)
Full text of academic studies based on survey research conducted mainly in Latin America.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Provides searchable interface for tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources
Based on the extensive collection on Latin American elections in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library at UC San Diego, this electronic publication, when complete, will provide a chronology of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels in eighteen Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and list sources of statistics for each election as identified.
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
Contains full-text and full-media copies of the web sites of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies. Capture of sites began on multiple dates in 2005 and 2006, and will continue with regularly scheduled captures.
Latin American Government Documents Program (LADOCS) (Cornell University Library)
Portal linking to Latin American government documents available on the Internet. It includes links to statistical sources, documents from executive, ministerial, national legislative, judicial and sub-national bodies, as well as links to some international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States.
Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP)
LAOAP is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
Legislacion Mexicana 1687-1902
Observatorio de Instituciones Representativas (OIR)
El Observatorio de Instituciones Representativas -OIR- es un instrumento de conocimiento para la acción sobre las instituciones representativas dé los países de América Latina, los procesos en los que éstas se hallan inmersas y los principales actores que despliegan sus estrategias en estos entramados; su finalidad es, por lo tanto, la de establecer diagnósticos que contribuyan a potenciar la calidad de las democracias de la región.
Political Database of the Americas
Created by the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies and the Organization of American States, this site is designed to provide Internet access to primary sources on Latin American politics. This includes the full text of constitutions, electoral laws, information from the legislative and executive branches of governments, as well as election data. Also useful is the site's links to newspapers and journals from the region.
Presidential Messages (Mexico and Argentina)
The Presidential Messages database contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina.
