The links in this section are intended to be to sites that relate to political theory in what I take to be the proper sense of the term 'theory'. I have not seen much on the web that is truly theoretical, and I should be very grateful to receive other suggestions

• Altruistic Punishment and the Origin of Cooperation, Fowler
• Approval Voting: A Better Way to Select a Winner, Steven J. Brams
• Arrow's Theorem and Turing Computability, H. Reiju Mihara
• Article: A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly by Bruno Frey. From The Independent Review
• The AGORA Online, Newsletter of the Rational Choice Section of the American Sociological Association and the Research Committee on Rational Choice of the International Sociological Association
• The Banzhaf Index of Power, and an applet to calculate the index
• Between Liberalism and Democracy, Samet & Schmeidler
• Beyond Area Studies, Fred W. Riggs
• Capitale sociale.it, useful resources for researchers interested in social capital and in its relationship with economic development
• Categories for the Systems Analysis of Politics, David Easton
• Competition in Government by Federalism: a Discussion of the Idea, Erik Moberg
• Robert Axelrod's Complexity of Cooperation and Evolution of Cooperation Web Sites
• Conflict and Violence, RJ Rummel. Also list of other available articles
• Digital Library of the Commons, includes a conprehensive bibliography of The Commons and related subject bibliographies
• Santa Fe Institute research on Dynamics & Quantitative Studies of Human Behavior & Institutions
• ElectionMethods.org
• Electoral systems and the politics of coalitions: Why some democracies redistribute more than others, Iversen & Soskice
• Various papers and notes on electoral systems and the structure of financial markets
• The Jon Elster Page is a resource for people interested in the work of Jon Elster, and in social science generally
• Existence of Nash Equilibrium in a Spatial Model of n-Party Competition, Schofield & Parks
• Game Theory .net has lectures notes and other resources
• Game Theory and Ethics
• Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics page
• Introduction to Game Theory
• The Game of Life
• Game Theory for Swingers: What States should the Candidates Visit Before Election Day?, by Jordan Ellenberg
• Game Theory sites
• Grand Coalition, information and resources about research in cooperative and noncooperative game theory with an emphasis on coalition formation
• How Bright are the Northern Lights? Some Questions about Sweden, Mancur Olson. 1990
  • The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis, Erik Moberg
• Ideological Politics and Interest Politics , Erik Moberg
• "Individual Rationality as a Useful Approximation", paper by Alvin E Roth
• The Israel-Palestine Question — A Case for Application of Neutrosophic Game Theory, Bhattacharya, Smarandache, & Khoshnevisan
• Lecture notes in Game Theory
• Summary outline of Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy by Ben Jacoby
• International Relations Theory
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destinty, Robert Wright
• A Note on Funaki and Yamato's Tragedy of the Commons, László Á. Kóczy
• An Outline of the History of Game Theory, Paul Walker
• Overview of Individual & Group, Robert Schenk
• A Glossary of Political Economy Terms, by Paul M. Johnson
• Political Forecasting Special Interest Group the Keys to the White House
• Practical and Efficient Electronic Voting Schemes, Tzeng & Tzeng
• Richard Tucker's Political Methodology Research Resources seems no longer to be available
• Papers delivered at Positive Political Theory Seminar, IGS Berkely
• Preference Voting Tabulation Perl Script
• The Prisoners' Dilemma is an ideal way to teach win-win co-operation and negotiation to teams. Ready made forms and instructions for teams to play this famous trust game can be obtained here
• An interactive Prisoners' Dilemma page
• Public Goods as a Category Mistake, Richard Kimber on how economists misunderstand the concept of public goods
• Rational Choice Theory, John Scott
• Rationality and Knavery, Daniel M. Hausman
• Research Design and Case Selection, Guy Peters
• Salience: Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates, Berliant & Konishi
• Simulation for the Social Sciences
• Leon Felkins' home page has some interesting essays on paradoxes and dilemmas
• Social, Economic and Political Change has a page of theory links
• Society for Political Methodology
• Robert Loring has a useful page in which he explains his synthesis of STV and Condorcet rules. He also offers a free version of Political Sim (TM) for games and research
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Strategic Voting and Gatekeeping in the Supreme Court, Caldeira et al.
• Center for the Study of Complex Systems links to online resources and software libraries. Also Cohen, Axelrod, and Riolo (CAR) project on agent-based models Reports and Publications
• Terrorism and Game Theory, Todd Sandler
• The Study of County Decision-Makers, Edward H. Peeples
• Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations For Understanding Conflict and Violence, RJ Rummel
• A Theory of Constitutional Standards and Civil Liberty, Lagunoff
• A Theory of Democratic Politics, by Erik Moberg
• A Theory of Parties, Bawn et al.
• Three arguments about rational choice theory in sociology, Hans O Melberg
• A Tiebout Theory of Public vs Private Provision of Collective Goods, Lagunoff & Glomm
• Towards an Information-Neutral Voting Scheme That Does Not Leave Too Much To Chance, Cranor & Cytron
• A Tragedy Of The Clubs: Excess Entry in Exclusive Coalitions, Manzini & Mariotti
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Trust in Game Theory, discussion paper: Daniel M. Hausman
• Two faces of Power, Peter Bachrach, Morton S. Baratz
• UnderstandingSociety
• Vote Splitting as Insurance Against Uncertainty, Bugarin
• Voting, Nicholas R. Miller
• Voting Theory
• Why Does Voting Get So Complicated? A Review of Theories for Analyzing Democratic Participation, Jeff Gill and Jason Gainous
• www.SystematicPoliticalScience.org
• You Can Fool Some People Sometimes, the authors measured promises by the number of future tense sentence occurrences in 10-K reports and found that this number is significantly negatively correlated with both the return and the excess return on the company stock price. They then applied similar methodology to forecast the outcome of the popular votes of the US presidential elections