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POLI 127: Politics of Development (Winter 2025): Topic Ideas

Tip

A good way to find a topic/case study for this assignment is to choose a current news event. In particular, since most SDGs deal with issues that are also human rights or environmental/climate change issues, look for stories about communities' human rights or environmental problems and/or solutions. 

Alternately, if you have an SDG/policy area and a country, you can use the IGO or NGO search engine to search for organizations doing work in this area.

Pages & Guides Covering Various Topics

Google Custom Search Engines for Finding Government and Nongovernmental Publications

►Use these Google Custom Search Engines to search for current online documents, publications, and websites from organizations or governments:

Government & Policy Organizations
Regional Government Information

 

►Search tip: If you get too many results, try adding one of these words to your search terms:

  • "policy surveillance"
  • "policy tracker"
  • "policy brief"
  • "issue brief"
  • "bill analysis"
  • report
  • strategy
  • plan
  • statistics
  • directory
  • Geographic or administrative divisions - California, San Diego, etc.

►Bonus search tip: Google-powered searches can be limited to pages published during a specific timeframe by using before:[date] and/or after:[date]