Research Guides: POSC 305: Urban Government and Politics (Bullock): Policy Issues

Discovering and Exploring Policy Issues

The sources listed on this page will allow you to search by city to discover policy issues you may wish to write about, or to search for evidence and analysis of specific issues in specific cities. You can return to these sources, searching with a different approach at each stage of your research.

News

Newsbank Access World News This link opens in a new window
NewsBank is an e-resource that consolidates current and archived information in fully searchable databases comprised of more than 5,000 newspaper titles, as well as newswires, Web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications.
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"Citations, abstracts, and full-text for the Baltimore Sun (1990-current), Christian Science Monitor (1988-current), New York Times (1980-current), Wall Street Journal (1984-current), and Washington Post (1987-current). ProQuest Digitized Newspaper versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post are also provided, with high-resolution facsimile...images from the print editions of these newspapers. Coverage for all three in Digitized Newspapers is 2008-recent, with a 3-month embargo."
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni includes full text newspapers, company news and financial information, as well as federal, state, and international legal materials. Also contains some medical and reference sources.

CityLab
News site with analysis, original reporting, and visual storytelling, focused on ideas and issues facing metro areas and neighborhoods.
NPR: Cities Project
Use NPR'S series on urban life in the 21st century to get ideas about specific issues affecting cities.

Academic Sources

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Find books, articles, media, government information, and other library resources all in one place. Try a search for your issue + your city name. For example: [gentrification AND Baltimore]
SocINDEX with Full Text ~[392]~
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This sociology research database has academic research articles and book chapters. Try searching for your city name as a SUBJECT.
America: History and Life ~[392]~
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Find articles and other materials on the political, social, and economic history of the United States and Canada from ca. 1450 A.D. Try searching for your city as a SUBJECT.

CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States ~[172]~ Christine Kelleher Palus (Editor); Richardson Dilworth (Editor)
Understand how American cities (from old to new) have developed over time (Part I), how the various city governance structures allocate power across city officials and agencies (Part II), how civic and social forces interact with the organs of city government and organize to win control over these organs and/or their policy outputs (Part III), and what patterns of public goods and services cities produce for their residents (Part IV).
The Divided City ~[172]~ Alan Mallach
In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach shows us what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He draws from his decades of experience working in America's cities, and pulls in insightful research and data, to spotlight these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social, and political context.

Organizations

Urban Institute
Look under the "Research Areas" tab to see some policy issues that affect cities. Search your city name to discover policy issues that affect your city.
National League of Cities
Use the search box to search by city for reports of projects and programs.
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Use the search engine to look for information regarding legislation, city programs, and best practices by topic or by city name. Includes news, reports, and videos.
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
Analysis of city issues from an economic point of view, with an emphasis on the impact of federal policies.
ICMA
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) of professional city and county managers and other employees who serve local governments.
National Urban League
Publishes research including the State of Black America each year. The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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Discovering and Exploring Policy Issues

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