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California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Created: January 25, 2001
Reviewed: August 18, 2003; July 20, 2004
Latest Update: October 31, 2004
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Links to Policy Sites and
to Sites that Represent Different Perspectives

• Additions during elections analysis, 2004:

• Center for Democracy and Citizenship

  Guide for higher education discussion of Everyday Politics Boyte's new book. Backup pdf files.

  "This fall, the Center for Democracy and Citizenship is celebrating the publication of Harry Boyte’s new book, Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

  "Harry C. Boyte is founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota and a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. A field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Boyte is an expert on citizen participation in democracy. He is the author of many books, including The Backyard Revolution, Free Spaces (with Sara Evans), and Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work (with Nancy Kari).

• Backup of NYT article by Okrent on Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?

  Very Left Perspective

  • The Communist Party - USA
  • Communist Voice: a magazine of revolutionary theory New URL for this magazine. October 31, 2001.
  • Left Business Observer Lots of info on World Bank.
    • Links on LBOGood set of resources.

  Left Perspective

  • Progressive Policy Instittute A Centrist Democratic Think Tank. Link added october 15, 2004.
  • Public Eye Organization Devoted to "studies antidemocratic, authoritarian, and other oppressive movements, institutions, and trends. PRA is based on progressive values, and is committed to advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic society."
  • ZNet
  • ZMagazine
  • American Review Don't miss the Magritte-inspired drawing a little less than half-way down the file!
  • Progressive Sociologists Network
    Tends towards scholastic discussions.
  • Young, TR Red Feather Institute: Postmodern Criminology
    
  • TR Young's Red Feather Institute At critcrim.org.
  • Robert Scheer Columnist for L.A. Times, Column Left.
  • Critical Criminology, ASC Aimed at professionals and graduate students in criminology.
  • The Progressive
  • The Public i An Investigative Report of the Center for Public Integrity.
  • The Utne Reader
  • Union for Radical Political Economics Journal. Abstracts available online.
  • Socialist Workers' Party London.
  • The Nation
  • The Institute for Policy Studies
  • Progressive Web Sites: Third World Traveler
  • Libertarian Site Gives understandable explanation of the libertarian perspective. Link added August 6, 2001.
  • A Libertarian list of books to read on Amazon.com. Link added August 11, 2003.

  Right Perspective

  • The CATO Institute "Cato's Mission: The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government."

  • Opinion Journal: Wall Street Journal Free. The editiorials from WSJ.

  • Center for Immigration Studies Right-perspective think tank. Link checked March 15, 2003.
  • Center for Law and Democracy Right-wing perspective.
  • The Moderate Republican Many Republican sources on Links.
  • The Weekly Standard Link to About Us for perspective information.
  • Center for the Study of Popular Culture "Peter Collier and David Horowitz are nationally known writers, editors, and political commentators whose intellectual development has evolved from early, influential support for the New Left and Black Panther movements to the forefront of neoconservatism."
  • The Heritage Foundation Conservative Think-Tank. Good starting place for conservative "right" views on issues.
  • Policy Review Published by the Heritage Foundation. Many articles available free. "Policy Review is the preeminent conservative publication for new and serious thinking and writing about the issues of our day."
  • Townhall Forum Conservative News and Information. Has an Issues Library link that may be of help to you.
  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Libertarian Site Gives understandable explanation of the libertarian perspective. Link added August 6, 2001.
  • Republicans for Environmental Protection "does not contribute money directly to candidates or to their campaign funds. Instead, members identify and endorse GOP officials and candidates for office who share our concerns. Then we mobilize grassroots forces and work through them for the election of conservation-minded Republican candidates."

  Libertarian Perspective

  I have trouble with this perspective because it's conservative, but it's not part of the religious conservative. Best explanation I have found for it is on the FEE site: The Foundation for Economic Education.

  "Welcome to The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the oldest research organization promoting:

  • individual freedom
  • private property
  • limited government
  • free trade"

  Political Cartoons

  • Political Cartoons - Week of Tret Lott's Gaffe Backup. Link added December 14, 2002.

  Theory and On Site References

  • Why Marx? When Capitalism Global?
  • Who's Where on the Continuum from Left to Right?

  Scholarly Reviews - a Hybrid Category at the Moment

  • The New Criterion edited by Hilton Kramer. " founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, is a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life. Written with great verve, clarity, and wit, The New Criterion has emerged as America's foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars now raging throughout the Western world. A staunch defender of the values of high culture, The New Criterion is also an articulate scourge of artistic mediocrity and intellectual mendacity wherever they are found: in the universities, the art galleries, the media, the concert halls, the theater, and elsewhere."
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Conservative Journals of Scholarship and Opinion
  • ISI's list of the 50 worst books of the Century. Worth reading. Conservative perspective.
  • ISI's list of the 50 best books of the Century. Not as exciting as the worst list. But some really surprising entries. Conservative perspective.
  • Science and Society A Marxist journal. There's a sample issue online. Check out the book reviews. Book reviews are a good way to keep up with literature in which you are interested, but don't have the time right now to pursue.
  • The Concord Coalition
  • ACLU
  • Policy.com
  • The Black and Blue . . . . fighting the corporatization of the university and the rightwing onslaught in society-at-large. Academics and their community counterparts launch their own review at the University of Pennsylvania..
  • New York Review of Books
  • The Partisan Review
  • The Socialist Worker
  • The American Scholar and Points of View

  Repositories

  • University of California Digital Repositories
  • eScholarship Repository
  • The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University

  Policy Institutes

  • Public Agenda Link added March 3, 2003.
  • The Brookings Institute
  • AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Consider the importance of deregulation and electrical power.
  • Center on Social and Economic Dynamics " The Center on Social and Economic Dynamics transcends disciplinary boundaries with innovative, unconventional research on economic and social issues."
  • RAND "RAND (a contraction of the term research and development) is the first organization to be called a "think tank."
  • The Institute for Public Policy Research Extensive collection of European material.
  • Center for Law and Social Policy
  • The Institute for Policy Studies A progressive think tank.
  • Economic Policy Institute
  • New America

  Essays on Perspective and Essentialism

  • Beginning of file on why we must balance accounts. Validity claims and legitimacy.
  • The Conservative, Liberal, Radical Dilemma Teaching essay. Link added January 18, 2002.

  Left Perspective

  • John Rawls - Links not up yet. January 25, 2001.
  • Dworkin - Links not up yet. January 25, 2001.
  • Howard Zinn Online
  • Excerpts from Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent

  Right Perspective

  • Robert Nozick Links up in August 2001.
  • A Process of Denial: Bork and Post-Modern Conservatism by James Boyle. [A later version of this essay appeared in 3 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 263 (1991)]. Link added in August 2001.