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| Full text articles on a variety of issues relating to the sociology of religion. Topics include religious values, human rights, social integration, public policies and religious diversity. | |
| Library founded in 1896 by public subscription. As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics, it serves as a national collection of material for research, with around one million bound volumes and 28,000 journals. It is one of the largest libraries in the world devoted exclusively to the social sciences, with particular strength in economics, government and politics, international, political, economic and social history, international law, international relations, social policy and public administration, sociology, and statistics (economic, political, and social). | ||
| Subject centre aiming to establish and support a network of academic practitioners, identify and promote information on good practices of learning, teaching and assessment, and create opportunities for professional development in the field of social policy and social work. | ||
| Collection of links to a variety of Web resources for social policy researchers. Features sources of data arranged by type or topic including educational material, academic departments, research institutes, and professional associations. | ||
| Designed for use by the US Congressional Research Service, this body of controlled vocabulary can be used by indexers to assign subject terms to bills, resolutions, and public policy literature in a consistent fashion. Enables users to narrow queries for more precise retrieval or to broaden queries for retrieving related legislation. | ||
| CPS is an independent centre right think tank, founded in 1974 by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph, which develops and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues, as part of its mission to influence policy around the world. It also maintains a range of informal contacts with politicians, policymakers, civil servants and the press, in Britain and abroad. | ||
| An independent, non political body which supports programmes of research and innovative development in the fields of housing, social care and social policy. Offers several hundred research summaries, searchable keywords, and information on publications, press releases and research programmes. | ||
| National organisation offering articles covering social policy issues including social security, housing, employment, immigration, discrimination and health. Details are given on how to become a volunteer or get advice and a bureaux directory is provided. | ||
| An organisation comprising 29 countries aiming to create a setting for governments to discuss and develop economic and social policy. Provides information about membership, committees, relations with non members and recruitment. Economic statistics, news items and documents on topics including competition law and policy, environmental issues, money laundering, public management and territorial development are also freely available. | ||
| The Women's National Commission is the official, independent, advisory body giving the views of women to the government. It has over 50 full member organisations, and aims to ensure that women's views are taken into account by the government and are heard in public debate. | ||
| IFS is a centre for policy research, set up in 1968. It is a politically independent registered charity, partly financed by the ESRC, which aims to bridge the gap between policy makers and academics: to bring academic rigour to policy discussion, and policy relevance to academic research. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to social policy. | ||
| List of documents relating to democracy, the fall of communism, and post communist Europe. Contains barometer surveys of New Russia, New Baltic, and New Korea, and abstracts of publications on topics such as economic enterprise and privatisation, social protection and poverty, and parties and elections. Provides a facility for ordering the full text of these articles online. | ||
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