Research guides: Foreign government information: Foreign governments

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Countries (WorldLII)
- provides links to the country's government, parliament or legislative assembly, laws and research guides
Foreign Governments (Northwestern University)
- Links to official websites for foreign governments
Law Library of Congress
- Guide to Law Online
- Features of Parliamentary Websites
Websites of National Parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union
Parline database on national parliaments
contains information on 264 parliamentary chambers in 188 countries, including:
- Parliaments at a glance
- Electoral system
- Last elections
- Election archive (1967+)
- Presidency
- Oversight
World Leaders and Cabinet Members of foreign Governments (CIA)
Rulers
- contains lists of heads of states and government of all countries from 1700s to present.
Parliamentary informatics (Wikipedia)
- provides link to many country's parliamentary informatics site which takes open data from the parliament and presents it in a way readable to both human and machine

EuroDocs Online Sources for European History
These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. These open access sources are readily available to all.
Latin American Web Archiving Project
- This project began in 2005.
Latin American Governments Document Archive (LAGDA)
Mexico 2010
Archive of Venezuelan Political Discourse (ARVEPODIS)
Archive of Political Parties and Elections in Latin America (APPELA)
Foreign Legal Gazette Collection (Library of Congress)
IIPC Member Archives (International Internet Preservation consortium)
OpenNet
- Aims to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices
Brazilian Government Documents
- 1821 - 1993