PLS201: Foundations of Political Science

This Google Custom Search is a maintained by Shippensburg University librarians. This tool searches a selection of highly ranked think tanks and can currently be limited to foreign policy or research-oriented think tanks.

The final issue of an annual report, sponsored by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Still useful, this report is the most authoritative and extensive listing and ranking of think tanks available.

A very useful guide to the major think tanks, both U.S. and international, from the journal Foreign Policy. The website version of the Think Tank Index is currently unavailable. This is a link to the pubished form of the Index.

This journal article provides an excellent introduction to U.S. think tanks and their various policy roles.

This is a useful list of think tanks. Don't go here for authoritative information about these think tanks - it is Wikipedia - but use it to identify think tanks that might be of interest to your research.

Find experts from the Brookings Institution by specific topics, geography, or language.

Directory of experts at one of the leading conservative-oriented think tanks.