RAND Corporation
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Nonprofit research organization producing public-domain reports on defense, health, education, and infrastructure policy. Its archive shows how analysts frame policy questions, model alternatives, and translate findings into recommendations, and most studies are downloadable free with full methodological appendices.
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
A widely assigned undergraduate textbook covering how U.S. policy is made, the tools of policy analysis, and major issue areas from health to environment. Readers finish able to evaluate competing policy proposals against economic, ethical, and political criteria.
Policy Commons
A search platform aggregating millions of full-text reports, briefs, and working papers from think tanks, NGOs, IGOs, and governments, including archived items whose original sites went offline. Useful for locating primary grey literature behind policy debates.
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies (MIT 15.031J)
How households, firms and governments choose among energy sources and uses, covering energy markets, electricity regulation, energy policy and technology choices across many countries and settings. Includes 21 lecture videos and lecture slides. Builds frameworks for analysing energy decisions and evaluating policy.
Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan American think tank publishing survey research, demographic studies, and content analysis on politics, religion, media, and social trends. Readers get access to full methodology reports and downloadable datasets useful for grounding policy arguments in evidence.
Brookings Institution
Washington-based think tank publishing commentary, working papers, and book-length studies across economics, governance, foreign policy, and metropolitan development. Useful for tracking how established scholars argue current policy debates and for locating primary data behind widely cited claims.
Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health (MIT STS.081)
How the US science and technology innovation system works and the federal government's role in it, through case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing and health. 24 lecture videos and slide notes help learners analyze and critique innovation policy.