Centers for Research

• Manhattan Institute - think tank to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility
• North American Institute - a tri-national public policy think-tank that focusses on such issues as the North American environment and the prospects for an expanded NAFTA throughout the western hemisphere community.
• The Rand Corporation - a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors
• Brookings Institution - a private, nonprofit organization devoted to research, education, and publication in economics, government, foreign policy and the social sciences generally
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - an independent institute for research into problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament.
• Center for Governmental Research - providing objective research, consultation and implementation expertise that
  empowers government, business, and nonprofit leaders to improve the quality of their communities as places to live and
  do business
• Policy.com - a comprehensive public policy information service and Internet/online community
• Institute for Policy Innovation - an independent, public policy organization dedicated to smaller government
• The Heartland Institute - a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization that applies cutting-edge analysis to state and local policy problems.
• Progressive Policy Institute - works to fashion a public policy for the 21st century by adapting America's progressive tradition of individual liberty, equal opportunity, and civic obligation to the challenges of the Information Age
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace - a public policy research center devoted to advanced study on domestic public policy and international affairs
• Carter Center, The - a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982.
• Cato Institute - contains prepared statements made by senior Cato policy staff members before Congress, conference and lecture information, a gateway to an extensive WAIS database of policy analysis reports, an on-line book catalog, and more.
  

Association Policy Institutes

• The Public Policy Institute of New York State - An affiliate of the Business Council of New York State
• The National Association of Manufacturers
  

University / Collegiate Institutes

• Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
• Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
• FSU - Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
• Harvard - JFK School of Government
• University of Oregon - Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
• University of Texas - LBJ School of Public Affairs
• University of Victoria - School of Public Administration
• New York University
• U.S.C. School of Public Administration
• The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York
• Michigan - Institute of Public Policy Studies
• Institute of Government and Public Affairs University of Illinois
• Center for Policy Research of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
  

New Jersey Links

• The New Jersey Business and Industry Association
• NEW JOBS: The Business Community's PAC