Think Tanks and Research Organizations publish papers about virtually every public policy issue. Use these resources to delve deeper into your issues and understand various viewpoints. Some organizations provide objective and balanced treatment of issues, others may take a particular stance on an issue. Be sure to evaluate what, if any, bias an organization has before you use their resources.
part of the Library of Congress, CRS does research for Congress when members are studying an issue. Their reports are both scholarly and objective.
Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
pulls together the policy papers from think tanks and interest groups across the political spectrum and indexes their papers. Be sure you understand the political leanings of an organization before you use their papers.
PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.