Think Tank Links

Think Tanks & Public Policy Organizations

Centers for Research & Policy Development - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/library/orgs_tanks.htm: This site provides links to many academic, political, and independent organizations but it also allows you to search these web sites comprehensively using Google Custom Search.
Political Science Resources: Think Tanks - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psthink.html: This site provides links to many academic, political, and independent organizations which provide studies and reports from a wide variety of points of view. Links are provided to other comprehensive online lists and individual websites.
PolicyExperts: Organizations - http://policyexperts.org/organizations/organizations.cfm: Policy Experts is a product of the Heritage Foundation a conservative political organization. This web page allows the user to to search for conservative organizations by name, head of organization, policy issue, and state.
International Affairs Resources: Research Institutes - http://www2.etown.edu/vl/research.html: This page from the WWW Virtual Library provides links to the web sites of organizations concerned with international relations. The list is subdivided into directories and individual major research institutes.
Moving Ideas: Organizations - http://www.movingideas.org/content/en/member_organizations.htm: An alphabetical list of over 250 organizations affiliated with Moving Ideas Network, a liberal network "at the forefront of progressive policy and advocacy work."
Public Policy Institutes (Yahoo! Directory) - http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/political_science/public_policy/institutes/: Yahoo's directory of [144] public policy institutes.
Public Policy Organizations (Yahoo! Directory) - http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/political_science/public_policy/organizations: Yahoo's directory of [54] public policy institutes.
The Public Agenda - www.publicagenda.org: "Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization .... The two-fold mission of Public Agenda is to: Help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues.... [and] Help citizens better understand critical policy issues so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions. Links are provided to "issue guides" on the following issues: Abortion; America's Global Role; Campaign Finance; Child Care; Crime; the Economy; Education; The Environment; The Family; the Federal Budget; Gay Rights; Health Care; Illegal Drugs; Immigration; Internet Speech/Privacy; Medical Research; Medicare; Poverty and Welfare; Race; Right to Die; and Social Security.