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DEVS 361: Policy Planning & Policy Advocacy

Books

This is an online course, so you may want to explore the e-book packages that are listed on the right to find books on your topic. The library also has print books. You can find both electronic and print books by searching Omni.

Some specific resource suggestions:

Shifting terrain: non-profit policy advocacy in Canada

Northern lights: exploring Canada's think tank landscape

Routledge handbook of comparative policy analysis

 

 

E-book Collections

Canadian Electronic Library - Public Policy Collection  Full-text access to a large collection of e-books, reports, studies and public documents from leading Canadian publishers, policy institutes, think tanks and organizations.
 

Oxford Academic. Cross-searchable library containing the full text of books in many subjects, including economics and finance from 2008 to present.

Practical Action Publishing. Queen's Library provides access to all publications published since 2000. Development organization working on renewable energy, food production,sustainable transport, water, sanitation, small enterprise development, building and shelter, and disaster risk reduction.

Scholars Portal Books. Fulltext access to books from scholarly publishers (including Canadian university presses, Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press), other Canadian publishers, government and non-governmental organizations.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Access to over 2,000 e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.

World Bank e-Library. World Bank publications from mid 1990's to present. Topics covered include: economics and finance, public policy, education, international development, poverty, gender, and more.