Research Guides: POLS 261: Global Civil Society and Transnational Social Movements (HC): Reports, Research Groups & Data

Finding Research Reports and Conference Papers

PolicyFile
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Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism.
Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
This organization makes conference papers and other works by academics searchable and in many cases provides full text access. 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.

Friends of the Earth
Global Rights: Partners for Justice
World Social Forum 2018 Meeting
The WSF is an international grassroots group for civil society organizations. This website provides some of the content from the group's 2018 meeting in Brazil.

2018 Global Go to Think Tanks Report
Ratings of think tanks by geographical region and by area of research done. This annual ranking is sponsored by the International Relations program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Global Development
Development Group for Alternative Policies
Focus on the Global South
Global Policy Forum
GPF is a policy research group which promotes "accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international law."
Institute of Development Studies
IDS is an international organization that sponsors research on international development.
Third World Network
Transparency International

AID Data
Microlevel aid data from a civil society organization billed as "open data for international development. Includes a compilation of research data sets from around the world, articles on aid data from peer reviewed journals, and "aid data raw" which allows researchers to subset aid data by donor, recipient, and purpose for multiple years. Includes data visualization tools and geocoded data sets.
International Country Risk Guide
The ICRG (International Country Risk Guide) Researcher's Dataset from the PRS Group comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk (political, financial, and economic), for 146 countries, over the period 1984 to the previous year. Data are annual averages of components published in the International Country Risk Guide.
Millennium Development Goals Indicators
Includes many measures of countries' progress relating to poverty, education, and health.
WomanStats Project
"The WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge." - website description.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online This link opens in a new window
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It includes more than 1100 indicators on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environment, covering 210 countries and 18 regional and income groups. Also includes the International Debt Statistics (IDS) database. Data ranges from 1960-present.

Worldwide Governance Indicators
Governance indicators for 213 countries cover six areas: Voice and accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government effectiveness, Regulatory quality, Rule of law, and Control of corruption.