Public Administrative Resources
Reference and Circulating Materials
Government Publications
Journals
Databases
Internet Resources
The Marvin K. Peterson library has a plentiful collection of public administrative resources. Please use this guide to start your research. Keep in mind that what is in this guide is a sampling of what is available, and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of holdings.
Some helpful links:
- Library Home Page
- Library Catalog
- Journals available from the UNH Peterson Library
- Proxy Connection (access databases from outside the library)
- Library Guides (various subjects as well as research and style guides)
- Interlibrary Loan Forms (for books and other materials that the MKP Library does not own)
- For help with writing techniques for your research papers, contact the Center for Learning Resources Writing Lab, located in Maxcy Hall.
- For help with your research at the library, visit us at the Information Desk, call us at 203-932-7189, or e-mail us: LibraryHelp@newhaven.edu.
You may use the Library Catalog to find books (both circulating and reference), government documents, and periodical titles held by the UNH library. (For periodical articles, see the Journals section.) The library catalog follows the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and subject headings. The format for the call number of an item will follow a letter and number arrangement according to the book's main subject.
Materials relevant to the study of public administration are generally found under these call numbers on the bookshelves:
- HB Economic Theory, Demography
- HC Economic History and conditions
- HJ Public Finance
- J General Legislative and Executive Papers
- JF Political Institutions and Public Administration
- JJ Political Institutions and Public Administration (North America)
- JK Political Institutions and Public Administration (United States)
- JL Political Institutions and Public Administration (Canada, Latin America, etc.)
- JN Political Institutions and Public Administration (Europe)
- JQ Political Institutions and Public Administration (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)
- JZ International Relations
Here's a list of examples of some Library of Congress subject headings you might use for a subject search. If you enter these terms in our library catalog and specify subject in your search (as opposed to keyword) you will get a very specific list of results.
For more information on effective catalog searching, refer to Using the UNH Library Catalog. You may also try our Catalog Tutorial.
- Public administration
- Decision making
- Budgeting
- Planning
- Public policy
- Finance, Public
- Civil service--Personnel management
- Collective bargaining
Reference & Circulating Materials
Reference books are for use in the library only; circulating books may be borrowed.
The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late. HF5549.5.T8 B7 2005
Administrative Ethics and Development Administration. JF1525.E8 G365 2001
Aligning the Organization: Management and Human Resource Concerns. HD2365 .K625 2005
Almanac of American Politics. JK271 .B343 Latest copy in reference under the same call number.
Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare.
HB1.A2 N3 no.12836
Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters. HD57.7.K47 2004
Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach. HD57.7.B43 2007
Benchmarking for Best Practices in the Public Sector: Achieving Performance Breakthroughs in Federal, State, and Local Agencies. JK468.T67 B45 1997
Book of the States. JK2403 .B6 Latest copy in reference under the same call number.
Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information. HB1.A2 N3 no.9763
Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to be Effective in Any Unruly Organization. JF1351 .H2 1999
Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy.
JZ1480 .H35 2006
Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy-Making: A Selective Survey.
HB1.A2 N3 no.12209
Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: For the Year Ended June 30... Ref. HJ2397 .C66
Connecticut Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor.
(1960/61-1983/84,1985/86-1999/00,2000/01)
Ref. J87 .C8
Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Current Practice, Future Upgrades.
RA413 .G22 2007
Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy.
HB1.A2 N3 no.12822
Decentralizing governance: emerging concepts and practices. JC355 .D383 2007
Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration.
JF1321 .D44 2000
Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies Than Non-Democracies?
HB1.A2 N3 no.10040
The ethics of human resources and industrial relations HF5549 .E822 2005
The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, and Process.
HJ2051 .S3424 2007
The Federal Information Manual: How the Government Collects, Manages, and Discloses Information under FOIA and Other Statutes.
KF5753 .G53 2006
Fiscal Management and Planning in Local Government.
HJ9105 .S6
A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies.
HB1.A2 N3 no.8420
The Global Public Management Revolution.
JF1351 .K475 2005
Handbook of Local Government Administration.
Ref. JS141 .H35 1997
Harvard Business Review on Decision Making.
HD30.23.H374 2001
HIV/AIDS in the workplace : corporate strategies and responses ; an update. RA643.8 .S556 2008
Information-Gap Decision Theory: Decisions under Severe Uncertainty.
QA279.4.B453 2001
Innovations in government: research, recognition, and replication JF1525.P6 I56 2008
Intergovernmental management for the twenty-first century JK325 .I55 2008
Intertemporal State Budgeting. HB1.A2 N3 no.9067
Mathematical Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences.
QA37.3.H37 2007
Philosophy and Public Policy. JC571 .H643
Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge.
RA410.53.R488 2007
Security by Other Means: Foreign Assistance, Global Poverty, and American Leadership.
HC60 .S4135 2007
Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data.
HB1.A2 N3 no.12824
Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression. HB1.A2 N3 no.12825
United States Government Manual. Ref. JK421 .A3 Latest edition shelved at Information Desk.
Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government.
JF1525.O73 K45 2005
Work, life, and family imbalance: how to level the playing field HD4904.25 .W735 2007
Since 1971, the Marvin K. Peterson Library has been a Federal Depository Library, receiving materials from such venues as the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Department of Labor, Treasury Department, Social Security Administration and more. Increasingly, government documents are available online; whenever possible the links to online documents are included from within the library's catalog. To follow these links click on the Linked Resources tab from the record of the item you are interested in and check the availability. For government documents that are not available online, come to the reference desk at the library for staff help in retrieving a print copy of the item(s) you need.
- GPO Access (Government Printing Office) contains bibliographic citations to documents published by Federal Government agencies from 1976 to the present, with links to the online publications where available.
- Go to our guide titled Finding U.S. Government Documents for more help in locating them.
The Budget and Economic Outlook Fiscal Years 2008 to 2017.
Y 10.13:2008-2017
The Business Reference Model, version 1.0: A Foundation for Government-wide Improvement.
PM 1.2:2002023969
Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communication Guidelines for Public Officials.
HE 20.402:C 73/2
Embassies as Command Posts in the Anti-Terror Campaign: A Report to Members of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, December 15, 2006.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.PRT.109-52
Innovative Workplaces: Benefits and Best Practices.
GS 1.2.W 89/4
National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan.
PR 43.8:H 75/2/IN 3/2
Quality of Bureaucracy and Open-Economy Macro Policies.
HB1.A2 N3 no.7766
Report of the President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting.
PR 42.8-C 17
Results-Oriented Budget Practices in Federal Agencies.
GA 1.2:GAO-01-1084 SP
Ten-Year Check-Up: Have Federal Agencies Responded to Civil Rights Recommendations?
CR 1.2:2002026910
- Volume 1: A Blueprint for Civil Rights Enforcement.
- Volume 2: An Evaluation of the Department of Justice, Labor and Transportation.
- Volume 3: An Evaluation of the Departments of Agriculture, Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Volume 4: An Evaluation of the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The United States Government Manual Online. AE 2.108/2: [GovDocs] (earlier editions)
The following are some of the journals related to the field of public administration that you may find helpful:
Administration & Society
Administrative Science Quarterly
American Review of Public Administration
Canadian Public Administration
Federal Register
Global Virtue Ethics Review
Governing
Government Executive
Government Procurement
International Journal of Government Auditing
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Journal of Public Procurement
New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
OECD Journal on Budgeting
Political Communication
Public Administration and Development
Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal
Public Administration Quarterly
Public Administration Review
Public Manager
Public Organization Review
Public roads
Publius
Review of Public Personnel Administration
Science & Government Report
Set-aside Alert
State Government News
Statenet Capitol Journal News & Views from California
Summit
U.S. Department of State dispatch
Yale Journal on Regulation
ABI Inform. Comprised of three modules: ABI/Inform Dateline specializes in local, hard-to-find information. Public administration resources for local city planners and municipal administrators may be found here. ABI/Inform Global looks at worldwide coverage of business conditions and management techniques. ABI/Inform Trade and Industry concerns itself with major industry trends.
Academic OneFile Peer-reviewed journal articles, with more than half full text.
BNA Tax Management Library Produced by the Bureau of National Affairs, BNA Tax Management provides analysis of tax accounting on the state, federal, and international levels.
Campus Research powered by WestLaw This database provides access to news and business sources and legal information.
CCH Online This is the CCH Tax Research NetWork database. Federal, state, and international tax information, state business income tax information and more can be researched here.
Conference Board Full text database of the print version, covering many different aspects of business and economics issues.
CountryWatch All of the countries of the world are listed in this database. Each country is covered in-depth for the following factors: demographics; political, economic, business, cultural, and environmental information.
Credo Reference Full text, images, and some audio. This collection of both general and subject specific, full text reference books is helpful in providing background information on a wide variety of topics. This database includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, census information, images, biographies and more.
Directory of Corporate Affiliations
Current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions-down to the seventh level of corporate linkage.
http://unh-proxy.newhaven.edu:2080/pqdweb Search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of New Haven and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. Download full text dissertations and theses published after 1996.
E-Books for Colleges (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Carries the full text of an array of titles on a variety of topics, including the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.
Emerald Full-Text Journals A collection of articles from over 100 of the most prestigious management journals.
Expanded Academic ASAP Balanced coverage from 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines
FirstSearch <available in library only> FirstSearch provides access to many useful databases such as Dissertations from North America and Europe, Periodical Abstracts and many more. Search groups of databases (by topic) or by individual database. FirstSearch can also suggest the best database to search, depending on your search terms. Ask at the Information Desk for a librarian to log you on with a password.
General OneFile Comprehensive database of more than 11,000 journals, dating back to 1980.
General Reference Center Gold Run a search for articles under the subject of 'Public Administration' and you will be able to get links to that and related topics, such as bureaucracy, civic organizations, government productivity, and policy sciences.
GPO Access The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
HeinOnline <Legal Periodicals> You are able to search HeinOnline's four major collections: Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.
Homeland Security Digital Library This database provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national security documents, as well as theses and reports from academic institutions and local and state organizations.
Informe - Revistas en Espanol This is a collection of Spanish language articles covering a wide variety of topics.
IRIS - University of Illinois Researcher Information Service The IRIS Database, updated daily, currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads.
LegalTrac Over 1,400 titles comprise this law database, which has law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and more.
Lexis/Nexis Statistical Universe If you're looking for statistics, this is your source! With over 30,000 tables of statistical information, search by keyword, then limit it by geographic area, demographics, economics, and more.
NBER Working Papers National Bureau of Economic Research publications, which can be downloaded. We have the print publications in the library.
Newspapers - Current (ProQuest) Search the recent full text of the following newspapers: Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Newspapers - Historical (ProQuest) Search the full text of older issues of the following newspapers: Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, & the New York Times.
ProQuest Education Journals & Wilson Education Abstracts Scholarly articles. Lists thousands of articles on public administration, mostly full text.
StatUSA <available in library only> (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Provides access to economic and trade-related data. Databases include the National Trade Data Bank, Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities, and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information. Available on Terminals 1 or 2.
WestLaw <in library only> WestLaw provides legal and business information spanning a variety of jurisdictions, practice areas and disciplines, including federal and state statutes, cases, federal regulations, public records, news, business and financial information, insurance, etc. Available only to faculty, staff and students in the Paralegal Program. Consult a librarian or paralegal program faculty member for access.
♦Professional Associations
Academy of Management Online Association for scholars interested in "creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations."
Alliance for Nonprofit Management Includes sections for events, conferences, publications, a career bank, as well as a members-only area.
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research A non-partisan think tank with extensive commentary, analysis, speeches, and testimony before Congress.
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) ASPA, established in 1939, is the largest and most prominent professional association in the field of public administration. The ASPA website offers information about the association and its activities, and the following publications: PA Times, and the Public Administration Review.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) "APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education."
Government Finance Officers Association Here you may garner information about the Advanced Government Finance Institute, plus more about committees/groups, employment ads, and policies and practices.
International City Management Association (ICMA) Founded in 1914, ICMA is the professional and educational association for administrators serving cities, counties, other local governments, and regional entities around the world. ICMA's mission is to strengthen the quality of local government through professional management.
National Academy of Public Administration The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, non-profit organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability."
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Dedicated to the promotion of public service, you can search nationwide for graduate schools specializing in public affairs.
Think Tank Information, National Institute for Research Advancement Web portal for public policy institutes.
♦Administrative Law
ABA Administrative Procedure Database Archive Provides information about Federal and State administrative law in order to aid legislators, lawyers, judges and citizens.
Administrative Law The Jurist provides legal intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
WEX Administrative law source from Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
♦Budgeting & Finance
Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference information, ABFM Teaching Database, and the Public Budgeting & Finance Journal are all a part of this group that is a section of the American Society for Public Administration.
Bureau of Economic Analysis aspires "To be the world's most respected producer of economic accounts."
Bureau of the Public Debt Produced by the United States Department of the Treasury, this site includes the Public Debt Strategic Plan.
Economic Statistics: The White House "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators."
National Budget Simulation Test your knowledge and skills by running this simulator.
Office of Management and Budget The Federal Budget in detail straight from the White House.
♦Federal Resources
The Federal Web Locator Created by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy, designed to provide federal government information.
NCJRS The National Criminal Justice Reference Service covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice. Useful for matters of public administration in police and criminal justice settings.
THOMAS U.S. Legislative Information on the Internet, from the Library of Congress.
USA.gov Portal to millions of pages of government information, arranged by topic.
♦State & Local Resources
Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations AMPO is a nonprofit, membership organization established in 1994 to serve the needs and interests of "metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)" nationwide.
CT.gov The State of Connecticut's official website.
State and Local Government on the Net Portal to the websites of thousands of state, county, and local government agencies.
♦International Resources
International Institute of Administrative Sciences Seated in Brussels, the IIAS is designed to "promote the development of the administrative sciences, to improve the organisation and operation of public administrations at all levels, as well as to develop effective administrative methods and techniques. Lastly, the IIAS contributes to the progress of governance within international administrations.
International Institute for Sustainable Development The group's main focus is on the "development and implementation of policies that are simultaneously beneficial to the global economy, the global environment and to social well-being."
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The OECD is a group of 30 countries dedicated to democracy and the market economy, with a large amount of its focus on public service.
United Nations The worldwide source on five major areas of international interest: peace & security; economic & social development; human rights; humanitarian affairs; and international law.
♦Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics is the "principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
Census of Governments US Census Bureau. Published every five years (in the years ending in 7 and 2.) Provides statistics on state and local government, including finance, employment, and organizational characteristics.
FedStats A portal to statistics from 100+ United States agencies.
OECD Statistics This is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's economic indicators and industry and trade statistics site.
Statistical Abstract of the United States The National Data book from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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