Research On-ramps - GOVT 210 - Writing and Information Literacy

Multi-Subject Reference

Use these resources to build a baseline understanding of the topic. Read for content, but also for style. Can you tell who the intended audience was? Do they align with the structure you need for a policy memo or explainer blog?

CQ Researcher
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in-depth each week. Broad subject coverage.
CRS Reports (via ProQuest Congressional)
The Congressional Research Service provides policy and legal analysis to congressional committees and members of both the House and Senate.
The Conversation
All authors are academic experts writing for a general audience. Articles use a Creative Commons license, allowing other publications to redistribute the information as long as proper attribution is given.

Policy File Index
Resource for the identification of public policy research and analysis.
PolicyMap
Integrates data including demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, labor data and more with web-based GIS. This allows users to view data on maps, table, and charts.

Subject Area Resources

Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States by James R. Knickman (Editor); Anthony R. Kovner (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780826172730
Publication Date: 2018-12-01
Section on Health Policy includes chapters on The Challenge of Health Care Delivery and Health Policy, Organization of Care, The Politics of Health Care in the United States, and Comparative Health Systems

USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
A partnership between Economic Studes at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics that aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations.
KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
A nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues. KFF develops and runs its own policy analysis, journalism, and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations.
note: not associated with Kaiser Permanente.
Health Care Policy Think Tanks
A list of Health Policy Think Tanks assembled by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists

Economic Indicators
Monthly publication prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee. Provides economic information including GDP, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.
Appropriations Statutes (1999 - present)
Track appropriations legislation through congress, past and present. Includes links to full text of bills and related committee reports
CQ Budget
News and analysis of the federal budgeting process. Appropriations bills status table displays at the top of the landing page. Scroll down for articles.

Routledge handbook of poverty in the United States by Stephen Haymes (Editor); Maria Vidal de Haymes (Editor); Reuben Miller (Editor)
ISBN: 1138298743
Publication Date: 2017-06-07
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Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State by Bent Greve (Editor)
ISBN: 1315207044
Publication Date: 2018-06-28
Analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. Combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive understanding of what 'the welfare state' means around the world.

Social Science Database (ProQuest)
Abstracts and some full text of journals and magazines in anthropology, sociology, psychology, business management, public administration, political science, criminology, and economics.
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts (CSA)Citations and abstracts from over 1,800 serials as well as dissertations on social work, human services, social welfare, and social policy.

Climate Extra
News and analysis covering climate policy developments in U.S. federal and state governments.
Previously InsideEPA/climate, Clean Energy Report, and Carbon Control News.
Includes access to general news available on the InsideEPA.com homepage.

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism by Erica Chenoweth (Editor); Richard English (Editor); Andreas Gofas (Editor); Stathis N. Kalyvas (Editor)
ISBN: 9780198732914
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Integrates scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. It introduces scholars and practitioners to approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching terrorism and locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence.
Routledge handbook of law and terrorism by Genevieve Lennon (Editor); Clive Walker (Editor)
ISBN: 1134455097
Publication Date: 2015-07-16
This handbook surveys how the law has been deployed in all aspects of counter-terrorism. It provides an analysis of counter-terrorism laws in domestic jurisdictions, taking a comparative approach to a range of jurisdictions, especially the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe.

Jane's Terrorism & Insurgency Centre
JTIC provides global open-source intelligence (OSINT) into the threats posed to governments, national security organizations and businesses by non-state armed groups. This database includes terrorist, insurgents and counter-terrorism events (2009 to present), profiles of active and dormant non-state armed groups, news and analysis, Country Briefings assessing each country's security situation, and case studies of landmark terrorist operations. JTIC replaces the library's subscription to the smaller Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Monitor.
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Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent by Thomas J. Lasley; C. Daniel Raisch (Editor); Thomas C. Hunt (Editor); James C. Carper (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781412956642
Publication Date: 2010-01-20
An authoritative A-Z resource that covers biographies of reformers and dissenters, theoretical and ideological perspectives, key programs and legislation, judicial verdicts impacting educational change in America, dissent and resistance to reforms, and technology's impact on educational reform.

ERIC (Education) via ProQuest
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature and indexes over 700 journals in the field of education. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Education Statistice LibGuide
Curated by AU's education librarian, Hannah Park, this guide provides sources for education statistics from government and non-profit sources