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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
News and analysis of the federal budgeting process. Appropriations bills status table displays at the top of the landing page. Scroll down for articles.
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.
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 (CSA)Citations and abstracts from over 1,800 serials as well as dissertations on social work, human services, social welfare, and social policy.
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.
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.
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.
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. ** Access limited to 5 (five) concurrent users.
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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.
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.