Centre for Latin American Studies - Political Database of the Americas
http://pdba.georgetown.edu
The PDBA offers systematized and centralized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of governments, elections, and other subjects relating to the strengthening of democracy in Latin America.

Christian Davenport webpage
www.cdavenport.com
This link provides information on all known human rights/repression databases.

Freedom House
www.freedomhouse.org/
The website provides information on data and methodology used to produce the two standards-based scales on civil and political rights from 1972. Data updated annually.

International IDEA, Democracy assessment reports
www.idea.int
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization. Its programmes aim to: a) provide knowledge to democracy builders; b) provide policy development and analysis and c) support democratic reform. The web site provides direct access to international IDEA public speeches, policy papers, working papers, and other useful materials to provoke dialogue and debate on how best to strengthen democratic processes worldwide.

In Motion - The African American Migration Experience
www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm?bhcp=1
This website provides open access to a variety of maps across U.S. history that capture the physical movement of African Americans throughout the states. 

The History of Jim Crow
www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/gateway.htm
This website provides a variety of easily accessible resources on the history of Jim Crow.

Journal of Democracy
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/
Since its inception in 1990, the Journal of Democracy has become an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints.

National Endowment for Democracy
www.ned.org
Includes databases on democracy experts, projects, and resources related to democracy and democratization.

Polity IV project
www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
The Polity IV Project continues the Polity research tradition of coding the authority characteristics of states in the world system for purposes of comparative, quantitative analysis.

Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 
www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/themap/map.html. 
This website site  provides an interactive mapping program which allows the viewer to explore diverse aspects of the Jim Crow system (e.g., the laws, population movements associated with the relevant period and violent activity directed against African Americans).

US State Department country reports
www.state.gov/g/drl/ 
The U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor provides information on human rights conditions in the United States and throughout the world.  There are also links to U.S. evaluations of their efforts to establish democracies around the world.

Political Resources on the Net
www.politicalresources.net/
Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media, and more from all around the world.

World database on Policing
http://coginta.com/ 
This website provides information about policing institutions around the world.

World Movement for Democracy 
www.wmd.org/
The websites offers wide selection of policy papers on democracy-related issues and a database of organizations working on promoting democratic reforms and human rights worldwide.