POLS 278: The Earth: Ethics, Politics, and Economics (HC)

This organization makes conference papers searchable and provides full text access to many of them. SSRN collects conference papers, journal article pre-prints and working papers in the social sciences. This is a good place to find very recent material. Use the Advanced Search option.

James McGann at the University of Pennsylvania ranks public policy organizations each year. The report organizes ranking by the world and by region in addition to rankings by area of research.

The National Bureau of Economic Research sponsors high quality research and makes it available on the organization's website.

Provides online access to abstracts and full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Much better results than searching Google.

Search of think tank websites sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School. Includes a mix of non-partisan and partisan due to organizations' impact and reputation.

Provides global ratings of the financial transparency of major think tanks.

An independent, nonpartisan research project measuring the social, political and economic atmosphere in Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more than 20 African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Part of the Global Barometer Survey series. Includes an online data analysis tool, downloadable data files, country reports, and publications.

Part of the Global Barometer Project, a network of regional studies on the attitudes of ordinary citizens. Includes an online data analysis tool, downloadable data files, country reports and publications.

An independent, nonpartisan research project measuring the social, political and economic atmosphere in Asia. Asian Barometer surveys are conducted in 18 East and South Asian countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Part of the Global Barometer Survey series. Includes an online data analysis tool, downloadable data files, and publications.

The European Commission monitors and reports public opinion in the E.U. Data concerns citizenship, social issues, health, culture, information technology, the environment, and the Euro. Provides opinion data twice yearly. Information is available for individual countries, regional groups, and the entire EU.

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants. Part of the Global Barometer Survey series. Includes an online data analysis tool, downloadable data files, and publications.