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Public Administration Resources: Web Resources

Find books, articles, and selected web resources to support your program research needs.

Legal and Regulatory Sources

Legal reference sources are available to help keep you informed on laws and regulations:

  • Federal Register
  • GPO Access: Code of Federal Regulations  The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.
  • GPO Access: Public & Private Laws  Contains the text of public and private laws enacted from the 104th Congress to the present.
  • GPO Access: Unified Agenda  Features announcements of anticipated federal regulatory actions twice a year in the Federal Register.
  • GPO Access: U.S. Code
  • Library of Congress: Thomas  Launched in January of 1995 to make federal legislative information freely available to the public, including Bills, Resolutions, Congressional Record, Treaties, and much more!
  • Regulations.gov  Comment on proposed federal regulations.

Directories

State and Local Government on the Web -- provides one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments. Drop-down menus can be used to view all the websites in a given state or to view websites of state government constitutional officers, state legislatures, state judiciaries and departments across all states.

U.S. Government

GPO Access contains major federal legislative, legal, and regulatory information sources such as congressional bills, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Examples of other federal government public administration Internet resources include:

Census Bureau
Council of the Inspectors Generals on Integrity and Efficiency (IGnet)
Dept. of Housing & Urban Development
ExpectMore.gov
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
General Services Administration
Government Productivity Archive 
Office of Government Ethics
Office of Management & Budget & OMB Earmarks Database
National Academy of Public Administration 
Small Business Administration
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics   

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Grey Literature

Grey literature includes reports and other research which are not formally published as either books or journal articles. Before the web, this material was considered "grey" because typically they were hard to find. Now these reports by think tanks, lobbying organizations and government agencies are increasingly found on the web. In addition, the term "grey" is also applied to this literature because it has not been reviewed or vetted by scholars in the field.

Think Tanks

 

Working Papers: Works in progress. They are often the result of ongoing research and are published to seek comments by others in the field. This type of publication has not been peer reviewed.