Public Policy and Policy Issue Areas

General Public Policy Sites and Guides

• APSA Public Policy Section
  • Public Policy Links (Rick Feiock)
• The Electronic Policy Network
• Policy.com
• Policy-Net
• The Policy Research Initiative (Canada)
  • Links to Policy Research Organizations
• policywonk.com
• Public Agenda Online
• The Public Policy Connection
• Public Policy and Interest Groups (from St. Martin's Press)
• Virtual Policy & Administration Community (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

General Approaches to Public Policy Analysis

• Futures Studies
• Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (University of Hawaii)

Specific Policy Areas and Associated Interest Groups

Table of Contents
Abortion Rights Affirmative Action Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs Animal Rights Budget Policy Campaign and Election Reform Children's Issues Civil Rights, Ethnic Politics, and Racial Issues Communications and Internet Issues Encryption Community Issues Consumer Issues Disability issues	Economic Policy and Economic Issues Education Energy ([Page) The Environment and Natural Resources (Page) Family Values Food Policy Freedom of Speech/1st Amendment Rights Global Climate Change Gun Control/2nd Amendment Rights Health and Medicine Homelessness Housing Human Rights / Gay & Lesbian Rights Intellectual Property Rights	Labor Media Issues Religion and Politics National Security and Foreign Policy Population Policy Science and Technology Social Security Urban Politics and Policy Welfare General Children's Issues Youth Programs and Services Aging Housing and Homelessness Poverty Women's Issues

• Abortion Rights
• Abortion Rights Activist Home Page
• National Right To Life Committee
• Planned Parenthood
• Zero Population Growth
• Affirmative Action
  • Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
  • Americans United for Affirmative Action
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
• Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
• CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Page
• Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents
• DrugScope
• DrugSearch
• Fighting Drug Abuse in the 21st Century
• INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign
• Join Together: Online
• The Lindesmith Center
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (Columbia University)
• Tobacco Control Archives (UCSF Library)
• Animal Rights
• Ark Trust
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Progressive Animal Welfare Society
• Budget Policy
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
    • The International Budget Project
  • The Concord Coalition
• Campaign Finance and Election Reform
• American University Campaign Finance Website
• The Center for Public Integrity
• Common Cause
• Federal Election Commission
• Money and Politics (from the Cato Institute)
• opensecrets.org
• U.S. Term Limits
• Children's Issues
• Children's Defense Fund
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• Civil Rights, Ethnic Politics, and Racial Issues
• The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Boston Review: Race, Genes, and IQ - Critique of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve.
• Communications and Internet Issues
• Encryption
• Virtual Political Action Committee
• Community Issues
• Community Networks:An On-Line Guide to Resources
• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
• National Civic League
• Woodstock Institute
• The Urban Institute
• Consumer Issues
• The Center for Study of Responsive Law
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• Public Citizen
• Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
• Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
• The Taxpayer Assets Project
• Disability issues
• The Center on Human Policy
• Easter Seals
• Economic Policy and Economic Issues
• General Economics and the Economy
  • National Bureau Of Economic Research
• Banking and Finance
• Central Banking Resource Center (Mark Bernkopf)
• The Deficit
• The Concord Coalition
• Employment
• The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• Inflation
• Securities and Exchange
  • Virtual Museum and Archive of the SEC and Securities History
• Taxation
• The Flat Tax Home Page (Sponsored by House Majority Leader Dick Armey)
• TracIRS
• Education
• Higher Education
• American Association of University Women
• Internet Resources for Institutional Research - George Mason University
• American Council on Education
  • Internet Sources for Higher Education Policy and Research Topics
• No Child Left Behind - ED.gov
• Energy
  • See the Energy Policy Page
• The Environment and Natural Resources
• See the Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Page
• See Also Global Climate Change
• Family Values
  • Family Research Council
• Food Policy
  • International Food Policy Research Institute
• Freedom of Speech/1st Amendment Rights
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (Where these  come from!)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Internet Action Group
• Voters' Telecommunications Watch
• Global Climate Change
• Global Change Home Page
  • Global Change Latest Postings
• Global Climate Change Selective List of Online Resources - Wil Burns
• 3rd Convention on Climate Change: Kyoto, 1997
• Global Environmental Change (ESRC - UK)
• Teaching Global Environmental Politics
• Weathervane (Resources for the Future Digital Forum on Climate Change)
  
• Gun Control/2nd Amendment Rights
• The National Rifle Association of America
  
• Health and Medicine
• American Medical Association
• American Public Health Association
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Epidemiology Resources
• Fight Managed Care
• The Global Health Network (University of Pittsburgh)
• Health On the Net Foundation
• Healthology
• InteliHealth
• Internet Resources: Women's Health
• MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources (Emory University Health Sciences Center Library)
• Merck-Medco Online
• The Virtual Public Health Center
• WebMD
• WWW Virtual Library: Epidemiology (Biosciences, Medicine)
• Homelessness
  • National Coalition for the Homeless
• Housing
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
• The Urban Institute
• Human Rights / Gay & Lesbian Rights
  • Human Rights Campaign - Working for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Public-Domain.Org
• Napster
• Recording Industry Association of America
• Labor
• AFL-CIO
• International Labour Organization
  • Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
• The Teamsters
• United Auto Workers
• Media Issues
• Accuracy in Media, Inc.
• Religion and Politics
• National Security and Foreign Policy
• See
• Population Policy
  • Office of Population Research Princeton University
  • Population Reference Bureau
• Privacy Issues
  • Health Privacy Project
• Science and Technology
• Federation of American Scientists
• Social Security
  • Social Security Privatization and Reform at The Cato Institute
• Urban Politics and Policy
• The Urban Institute Home Page
• Welfare
• General
• American Acadamy of Pediatrics
• American Public Human Services Association
• American Public Welfare Association
• Catholic Charities USA
• HandsNet: Linking the Human Resources Community Online
• Health and Human Services, US Dept of
• Administration for Children and Families
• Welfare Reform
• National Academy of Social Insurance
• Rethinking the Welfare Society (UK - academic research)
• The Salvation Army
• Welfare and Families (from Electronic Policy Network)
• Welfare Reform Watch (from HandsNet)
• Young Men's Christian Association
• Young Women's Christian Association
• Children's Issues
• Adoption Network
• Child Abuse Prevention Network
• Child Welfare League of America
• Children's Defense Fund
• Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism 
• Habitat for Humanity
• The Klass Foundation
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse
• National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers
• The United Children's Fund
• Youth Programs and Services
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's YouthInfo
• National 4-H Council
• The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
• American Youth Policy Forum
• Aging
• American Association of Retired Persons
• National Council on the Aging
• SAGE Crossroads - Science of Aging Crossroads
• State Agencies on Aging (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• Housing and Homelessness
• The American Homeless Society
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• HomeAid
• Homeless Online
• The Housing Assistance Council
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Poverty
• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Joint Center for Poverty Research (Northwestern/Univ. of Chicago)
  • JCPR Publications
• Institute on Race & Poverty
• MDRC - Building Knowledge to Improve Social Policy
• National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• Women's Issues
• American Association of University Women
• The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)
• National Organization for Women

 

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