Think Tanks

The organizations listed below are think tanks, which are nonprofit organizations that produce policy research. The organizations vary by size, research focus, and ideological perspectives. Many of them may produce work helpful to student research, but students should always be critical consumers of think tank products. Look for indications that the research has been well designed and rigorously executed.

	Focuses on a broad range of domestic social and economic policies as well as foreign policy, generally from a conservative, free-market perspective.			Focuses on a broad range of domestic social and economic policies as well as foreign defense and trade policy.
	Focuses on economic and social issues from a libertarian, free-market perspective. Especially involved in Social Security privatization and deregulation.			Focuses on social policies from the perspective of how they affect low and middle-income Americans.
	Focuses on foreign policy issues.			Focuses on foreign policy issues.
	Focuses on domestic social and economic issues, generally from a perspective of how they affect middle-class working Americans.			Focuses on broad range of domestic social and economic issues as well as foreign policy from conservative point of view.
	Focuses on economic, social, and demographic issues facing the state of California.			Produces evaluation research on defense and domestic issues for the federal governments, states, and private foundations.
	Produces evaluation and technical research about domestic social and economic policies.