Gary Klass
Department of Politics and Government
Illinois State University
gmklass@ilstu.edu

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Illinois State Homepage

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Lexis\Nexis

University Calendar

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Electronic Phonebook

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MLA Summary

APA Summary

 

created by Gary Klass 01/01/00
updated: 03/24/08

Course Information:

Political Science Student Conference

• Spring '08 Syllabus
• News links:
        The Chicago Tribune
        The New York Times
        The Washington Times
• Policy Topic Assignments
• Paper Instructions 
• Make up\extra credit NEW!!

Class Notes:

• Jean Hopfensperger, "Eurowelfare, Part 1: Security blanket for families," Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 14-16, 1996.
• Richard W. Rahn, "Eradicating European Flu
• Paul Krugman. "French Family Values," 
• American Public Policy in a Comparative Perspective (power-point file)
• Welfare Reform notes (MS excel) poverty trends (excel)
• comparison of child poverty rates
• Theories of American Exceptionalism (Powerpoint)
• Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism, (chapter one)
• American Education: "What Works"
• Health Care notes
• Budgets and taxes
• NCLB data

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Public Policy Resources:

General

• The Public Agenda
• Speakout.com issues
• Stateline.org
• 
  US Department of Health and Human Services -- Welfare debate facts
• Lexis\Nexis (library search of news articles)
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• FedWorld -- all sorts of US gov't resources online
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• OECD, Statistics Page
• OECD, EDUCATION, LABOUR AND SOCIAL POLICY STATISTICS
• US House of Representatives (Thomas)

Liberal

• American Civl Liberties Union (Southern California)
• American Federation of Teachers
• Brookings Institution
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Children's Defense Fund
• Coalition on Human Needs
• Diversity Web
• Families USA
• Food Research and Action Center
• Moving Ideas
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• National Council of La Raza
• National Education Association
• The Policy Library
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Urban Institute
• Welfare Information Network

Conservative

• American Enterprise Institute
• American Public Human Services
• Cato Institute
• Center for Education Reform
• Center for Equal Opportunity
• Center for Individual Rights
• Empower America
• Family Research Council
• Heritage Foundation
• National Center for Policy Analysis
• Town Hall
• UNICEF Progress of Nations