Policy Think Tanks

The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) has posted some new articles on various public policy issues in Utah such as ID Theft and retirement systems. Centers such as CPPA can be a great resource for government policy makers and executives. Here are a few other public policy think tanks worth watching:

• Evans School of Public Affairs Research Centers
• JFK School of Government Research Centers
• MonTREP
• Park City Center for Public Policy
• Public Policy Institute of California
  ca2025 reports are interesting
  
• Public Policy Institute of New York
  see also The Knickerbocker Blog
• Hecate's Blog
• Georgetown Public Policy Institute
• Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
• Rand Corporation
• Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Urban Futures
  They house a state planning and growth management database - not working right now
• The Science and Public Policy Institute
• Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
• Inside Politics / Brown University
  (of course, we all monitor Darrell West's comparative studies of e-government)
  

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds more of these types of organizations across the country. It would be really interesting to have all of their publications in a single, searchable database, as well as have them all categorized by areas of specialization. Then have all the new publications show up in an RSS feed, that would be cool.