The Center archives and shares extensive datasets on policymaking, including the Policy Agendas Project , which documents national policy trends since the Second World War. We share these data with researchers and students across the globe via our website. The Center provides important public service functions to the University Community and the community at large, by coordinating media roundtables to discuss issues of governance, and by inviting experts from across the nation to speak on these and other topics. The Center also promotes ties to other universities. Outside funding is essential for promoting the Center's objectives of excellence in research and teaching.
Universities typically provide only minimal support to conduct research projects.
Our faculty have made outside funding a top priority. Since 1996, Center faculty have been principal investigators or associates on research grants and awards totaling almost 1.6 million dollars. Our findings are published in the most widely read and prestigious political science and public policy journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of the American Planning Association, International Journal of Public Administration, Law and Policy, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Journal of the American Medical Association, Pouvoirs, Annual Review of Political Science, and the Annual Review of Psychology . Faculty and Fellows have also recently published books with the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Jossey-Bass, JAI, Routledge, and Georgetown.