The Academy fosters
principled leadership through scholarship, education, and training, with
special attention to advancing the leadership of groups historically
underrepresented in public life. Working from the belief that there is
leadership in every person, the Academy studies, trains, and teaches emerging
and experienced leaders to cross boundaries--between theory and practice,
business and government, majority and minority groups, and among nations.
Wide-ranging,
topical papers including the subjects of income and poverty; race and
ethnicity; marriage and family; population estimates and projections; and
education. Instant summaries of the demographic characteristics of the U.S.
population and especially stats on national voting may also be found on the
site.
Assessing the New
Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute research project to analyze the
devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government
to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, job
training, and social services.
CDE is a
multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific
demographic research whose membership includes sociologists, rural
sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, and statisticians. CDE is one of
the leading centers of social science research in the world, as indicated by
the scholarly productivity of its faculty, the level of extramural funding
secured by researchers, the production and distribution of high quality
demographic data, and the quality of its graduate training program.
The Center, at the
University of California, Berkeley, indexes here some of its conference
papers. Comparative Labor Politics are represented here also.
The mission of the
Center includes the following activities: 1) publish the quarterly classified
journal and annual unclassified edition of Studies in Intelligence, 2)
host independent research and publish books and monographs on intelligence
topics, 3) publish key documentary collections from the Cold War, and 4)
interact with academic specialists.
This is the largest
source of academic news and other information pertinent to administration. Its
sections for full reports and
grant opportunities are
extremely useful.
Currently, there is
only one paper available in the papers section, but the
Data and Trends
section consists of many stats regarding Internet usage across America and by
Congress.
Theme is gender and diversity within
international organizations. The papers are specific to CGIAR. Some titles
include
"Toward Gender Equity: Model Policies" (1998);
"Strangers in a Strange Land: A Literature Review of Women in Science "
(1998);
"Working with Diversity, A Framework for Action" (2000); and
"Female and Male CGIAR Scientists in Comparative Perspective" (2002).
This organization is
here to connect people who care about the craft of community organizing and to
provide information that organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers can use
to learn, teach, and do community organizing.
University of
Toronto. CH Working Papers is an interdisciplinary series of refereed
publications on computer-assisted research. The papers are a vehicle for an
intermediary stage at which questions of computer methodology in relation to
the corpus at hand are of interest to the scholar before the computer
disappears into the background.
Catholic University of America. The
following philosophical series are available: Culture and Values; Africa
and Islam; Asia; Western and Eastern Europe; Latin America;
Foundations of Moral Education; and a separate category for the Society for
Metaphysics.
Varied essays from
lawyers, journalists, and scholars who are focusing on the legal issues of
war. Detailed pictures are used on the site to raise awareness of the horrors
of war.
The Federation of
American Scientists conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology, and
public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales,
biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. FAS is a privately-funded,
non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes 51 of
America's Nobel laureates in the sciences.
The Political
History Leading to the Free Speech Movement website offers a spectrum of
opinions on what FSM was and perspectives on what happened in the FSM.
There's an extensive suite of documents with views from both sides.
Harvard University. The Global
Burden of Disease 2000 in Aging Populations is a program project supported by
the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. This
program project is a coherent series of investigations that strengthens the
methodological and empirical basis for undertaking comparative assessments of
health problems, their determinants and consequences in aging populations.
Since the publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990, there has
been increasing interest in comparative analyses of health outcomes,
determinants and consequences.
Paper categories
include
Measurement of Adult Mortality in the Developing World; Non-communicable
Disease Mortality Transitions; Adapting Statistical Methods for Public
Health Research; Self-Reported and Observed Measures of Health Status;
Summary Measures of Population Health; and Health Costs of Aging,
Present and Future Trends.
Thousands of
articles, essays, reviews, and other scholarly resources on theology, science,
social issues, and every major academic discipline are available on this site.
The above link goes to its political science section. Leadership
University has several satellite sites:Christian Leadership
Ministries, Journal of Human Sexuality, Origins, Stonewall Revisited, World
Religions Index, Academic Integration Page, and CyberLibrary.
This foundation is
concerned with a wide range of issues, all of which relate to poverty and
inequality. It seeks to improve traditional definitions of welfare and living
standards by going beyond the usual income or consumption based measures.
NHI examines the key
issues affecting affordable housing and community development of practitioners
and their supporters. These issues include housing, jobs, safety, and
education, with an emphasis on housing and economic development, as well as
poverty and racism, disinvestment, and the lack of employment.
The National Humanities Institute maintains a
vigorous program of research and publication that addresses social decline at
its ultimate source in the moral, intellectual, and aesthetical life of
society.
The Archive is
simultaneously a research institute of international affairs and a library and
archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act. The organization seeks to defend and expand public
access to government information through the FOIA.
University of
Pennsylvania. A few of the thousands of free books accessible through this
site are located under History, Social Sciences, and Statistics. The link
above takes you to the Subject Category on the site.
Social Science
Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of
social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research
networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages
the early distribution of research results by publishing abstracts and by
soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.
University of
Amsterdam. The SocioSite gives access to information and resources which are
relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. It has been organized
from a global point of view, with a combination of links to other sites and
working papers. Its very lage subject area is
listed here,
and its research, methodology, and statistics section is
listed here.
The SSRC is an
independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit, international association
devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social
sciences.
