RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY GROUPS
The best subject-oriented listing is available from Vanderbilt.
Other descriptive lists: NIRA |
Project Vote Smart
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One way to identify a group by subject is to search Associations Unlimited.
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- Alliance for Better
Campaigns
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Association for the
Advancement of Science -- Science and Policy Programs
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Enterprise Institute
- Amnesty International
- Annenberg Public Policy
Center
- The media and public policy issues.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Anser Institute for Homeland Security
- Anti-Defamation League
- Arms Control Association
- AsiaSource / Asia Society
- Assessing the New
Federalism
- Research project, from the Urban Institute.
- Benton Foundation
- Brennan Center for
Justice
- Brookings Institution
- Campaign Finance
Information Center
- Campaign Finance Institute
- Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
- Cato Institute
- Center for Defense Information
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"Watchdog" group on military spending and policy.
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Center for Law and Social
Policy
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Center for Public
Integrity
- Center for Responsive Politics
- Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments
- Center for Strategic and
International Studies
- Center for the Study of the Presidency
- Center for Voting and
Democracy
- Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities
- Children's
Defense Fund
- Children's
Partnership
- Christian Coalition
- Citizens' Research
Foundation
- Information on political financing and election reform.
- Commission for
Ecological Cooperation
- Common Cause
- Commonwealth Fund
- Research on health and social issues.
- Commonwealth Institute
- Concord
Coalition
- Council for Excellence in
Government
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Death Penalty Information
Center
- Democratic Leadership
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Emily's List
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Info for/on pro-choice women running for public office.
- Empower America
- Environmental Working Group
- Ethics and Public Policy
Center
- European Centre for Minority
Issues
- FactCheck.org
- Family Research Council
- Federalist Society
- Federation of American
Scientists
- First Amendment Center
- A project of the Freedom Forum, based at Vanderbilt University.
- Foreign
Policy In Focus
- Joint project of Institute for Policy Studies and Interhemispheric
Resource Center.
- Freedom House
- GlobalSecurity.org
- Greenpeace International
- Alan Guttmacher
Institute
- Research and policy analysis on reproductive issues.
- Harvard School of Public
Health
- Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation
- Henry L. Stimson Center
- Heritage Foundation
- Hoover Institution
- Human Rights Watch
- Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
- Research on ethnic, religious, and political conflicts. See their country guides.
- Institute for Global
Communications
- Home for PeaceNet, EcoNet, etc.
- Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet
- Institute for Science and
International Security
- Institute of the Study of Diplomacy
- Porgram at Georgetown University.
- Institute for War and
Peace Reporting
- News and analysis on the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and the former
Soviet Union, with an emphasis on issues relating to media coverage.
- Institute for Women's Policy
Research
- Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
- International Crisis Group
- Private, international group intended to monitor political crises and
recommend solutions.
- International Foundation for Election Systems
- International Institute for
Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- International Policy
Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- International Research and
Exchanges Board
- An organization dedicated to field research and exchange programs
between the U.S. and countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union.
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- Jerome Levy Economics
Institute
- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Joint Center for Poverty
Research
- Judicial Watch
- League of Women Voters
- Mason-Dixon Poling &
Research, Inc.
- Public opinion surveying firm.
- The Middle East Institute
- Nation of Islam
- National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League
- National
Academies
- Combined Web site for the National Academy of Science, National
Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, and affiliated research
groups.
- National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
- National Center for Policy
Analysis
- National Commission on Federal Election Reform
- Commission "organized by the Miller Center of Public Affairs and The Century Foundation to recommend ways to improve the accuracy and fairness of federal elections."
- National Institute on
Money in State Politics
- National Organization for
Women
- National Priorities Project
- National Rifle Association
- National Right to Life Committee
- National Security
Archive
- Research institute and library of declassified documents.
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- OMB Watch
- Watchdog group monitoring the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, government information, regulatory
activity, etc.
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the
Prevention of Terrorism
- Oxfam
- Pew Center on Global Climate
Change
- Poisoning the
Web: Hatred Online
- The Anti-Defamation League's "report on Internet bigotry, extremism,
and violence," with essays on hate groups online.
- Political Money Line
- Lots of information on campaign finance and lobbying, including searchable databases.
- Population Reference Bureau
- Non-profit research organization providing population data.
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Analysis of military policy.
- Public Agenda
- Nonpartisan public opinion/research organization.
- Public Campaign
- Campaign finance reform group.
- Public Citizen
- Rand Corporation
- Reform
Party
- Republican National
Committee
- Research Forum on
Children, Families, and the New Federalism
- From the National Center for Children in Poverty of the Columbia
School of Public Health.
- Resources for the Future
- Right Side of
the Web
- River Network
- Info on protection of rivers and watersheds.
- Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research
- Sierra Club
- Southern Poverty Law Center
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Includes Klanwatch and Militia Task Force.
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Town Hall
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Politically-conservative viewpoints, speeches, etc. Created by the Heritage
Foundation and National Review magazine.
- Transparency International
- "The global coalition against corruption."
- Turn Left
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Left-of-center opinions and links to sources on issues, government, etc.
- Twentieth Century Fund
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Urban Institute
- Violence Policy Center
- Self-described "gun control `think tank'."
- World Policy Institute
- World Resources Institute
- Worldwatch Institute
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