A collaborative effort between the Brookings Institution Presidential Appointee Initiative and The Council for Excellence in Government, this full-text handbook may be interesting and useful to readers even if they didn't just get the nod to head up the Treasury. Available in both HTML and .pdf format, the guide offers practical advice "on everything from filling out forms to handling the media."...

The new online Almanac of Politics and Government is a comprehensive reference tool, providing over 1,300 Web pages of political and governmental information about nations worldwide. The almanac's coverage emphasizes the US political system but also includes information about world governments and international organizations. Additionally, the almanac contains a collection of important US...

For those looking for a career change, and thinking about public service, they may be asking: "What are the best places to work in the federal government?". This site, developed by the Partnership for Public Service and the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation, answers that very question in copious detail. The study uses data from the Office of Personal Management's 2002 Federal...

The 1998/1999 version of this manual (first described in the Scout Report for September 12, ) has been posted by the National Archives and Records Administration and the US Government Printing Office. Like its predecessors, the manual offers comprehensive information on the branches of the federal government, departments, offices, and related bodies. The Manual's 800 pages can be retrieved in...

The latest version of this manual (first described in the September 12, 1997 Scout Report) has been posted by the National Archives and Records Administration and the US Government Printing Office. Like its predecessors, the manual offers comprehensive information on the branches of the federal government, departments, offices, and related bodies. The Manual's 690 pages can be retrieved in either...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the latest edition of the United States Government Manual on the US Government Printing Office Website September 5 (last year's edition is discussed in the September 15, 2000 Scout Report). The 693-page manual covers agencies in all three branches of the government as well as "quasi-official agencies; international organizations in...