Politics

Internships

The following are tools and important links that you should find helpful in your search for various political internships. In addition, we would encourage all interested students to explore the opportunity of an internship under the auspices of the Politics Department's Washington Term Program.

Search engines:

Infoseek

Yahoo!

WebCrawler

Lycos

General information sites:

Career Services at W&L (This has internship listings specific to W&L and information on graduate schools, jobs, etc.)

National Society of Experential Education

"American Express University" Internships Listings

IdeaList

JobTrak (A search service with many links to specialized places--has a wide net under "politics" or "government" as keywords--also lists by geographic location and alphabetically by company name)

A few of the many government agency homepages which include internship listings:

The White House

The House of Representatives

The Senate

Liberal interest groups:

Common Cause

Public Citizen

Environmental Defense Fund

Wilderness Society

Congress Watch

Conservative interest groups:

Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation Job Bank Cato Institute

Townhall (Click on "JOBLINE")

Leadership Institute's Employment Placement Services