Public Policy Groups, Advocacy Groups, and Think Tanks

Very good subject-oriented listings of such groups are provided by Vanderbilt University and Washington State University.

Leyburn Library's list of public policy groups includes its own search engine.

Additional lists of "think tanks" and other non-governmental policy groups, with descriptions, are available from Project Vote Smart and CDISS (Centre for Defense and International Security Studies).

The World Press Review maintains an alphabetically-arranged international list.

W&L researchers can search for materials (documents, reports, studies, articles, etc.) within the Web sites of important public policy groups by using the following databases:

• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
• PolicyFile
• PolicyArchive