Reports the first decade of diverse accomplishments in public education and state government by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research. The accomplishments described include the importance of research findings in influencing governmental decisions, public education about government and policy issues, and monitoring legislative…

Short summaries of State legislation, projects, and studies are included in this brief arranged in alphabetical order by state, with projects and studies identified as such. Index terms appear correspondingly in the right margins of each page as a guide to the subject of each item, as well as in the index, and a state-by-state guide is listed in…

Reviews the creation in 1933 of the Council of State Governments, which serves as an information resource for state officials and describes the current development of a national-state government information database and the creation of a state government research institute. (CLB)