This guide is designed to assist you with public policy research and assignments, including (1) social indicator tracing and (2) policy synthesis papers
covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Covering all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
The canned search above leads you to public policy titles in our collection, both in print and electronically. Keep in mind, that many titles may be edited volumes, with case studies of certain geographic contents, populations and the like. Also search the catalog for more specific policy issues, such as "school chocie" or "maternal leave."
This Handbook's articles touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained.
Guide for from the Government Accountability Office on conducting effective policy evaluation syntheses (for literature searches, please see pages 23-26. Although dated, the instructions remain relevant).