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Important Public Policy & Administration E-Books

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Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
Digital books, periodicals, and other materials from Pennsylvania libraries, archives, government agencies, and other organizations....   [more]
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Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

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Handbook of Defense Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Health Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Labor Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Public Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare
- from Handbooks in Economics
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

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Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978...   [more]

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McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Fulltext for a large collection of significant texts in the history of economic thought. Includes representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of thought; and most of the sub-fields o...   [more]
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MDRC
Also Known as: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Social policy research organization focusing on improving the well-being of low-income people, especially educational reform, children and family, including afterschool care and child care, workers an...   [more]
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    MDRC Publications (many in fulltext PDF)

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Municipal Secretary Desktop Reference Manual
Designed to assist local government secretaries in everyday and periodic duties. Published by Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission....   [more]
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National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
Also Known as: National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
- from Gale Directory Library
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
Also Known as: Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
- from Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
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Penn Press e-books (via JSTOR)
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Pennsylvania Governor's Center for Local Government Services publications
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Pennsylvania Legislator's Municipal Deskbook
Covers basic topics of municipal government, with lists and links for municipal issues resources. Continually updated....   [more]
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Philadelphia 2035 Comprehensive Plan
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Philadelphia Code and Charter
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Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

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Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

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RAND Corporation - Books and Publications
Fulltext publications from the premier research and development thinktank....   [more]
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Russell Sage Foundation e-books (Project MUSE)
Searchable fulltext for a selection of Russell Sage Foundation books....   [more]
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SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge social sciences digital library is intended for students, researchers, and faculty. The SAGe Knowledge platform hosts 2,700 titles and includes scholarly monographs, reference works, ha...   [more]
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Standards for Effective Local Government
Workbook self-assessment manual covering basic functional areas of local government, with sets of standards for measuing performance. Published by Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission....   [more]
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Synthesis Lectures on Nuclear Technology and Society
- from Morgan Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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    Old URL, as DDRS

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U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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University of Michigan Press ebooks collection
Fulltext page images for University of Michigan Press. Starting with 2019-imprint titles plus complimentary access to the press's ebooks backfile....   [more]

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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

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Related Public Policy & Administration E-Books

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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
Also Known as: APEC Secretariat
Web site, with publications and working group documents, for APEC, the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC has 21 member ...   [more]
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    APEC publications (free downloads, PDF and MS Word)

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Connections: The Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future: Administrative Version
The Connections plan sets regional policy and agenda for the nine-county Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission region....   [more]
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Green2015: An Action Plan for the First 500 Acres
"The goal of Green2015 is to unite city government and neighborhood residents to transform 500 acres of empty or underused land in Philadelphia into parks for neighbors to enjoy by 2015." -- Green2015...   [more]
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IDB Inter-American Development Bank Publications
Also Known as: IADB
Publications include thousands of reports and papers, and hundreds of books and institutional documents of the Inter-American Development Bank....   [more]
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National Academies Press Books
Also Known as: NAP Books, Joseph Henry Press Books
Fulltext books published for the US National Academies. Topics include agriculture, behavioral science, biology, computer science, chemistry, earth science, education, energy, engineering, environment...   [more]
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World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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