Presidential Transition Resources

• Council on Foreign Relations -- Tranisition 2008
•  Brookings Institution -- The Presidential Transition
• Urban Institute -- Policymaking and the New President: Advice to President Elect Obama.
• Rand Corp. -- Presidential Transition - Selected Research, Commentary, and Congressional Testimony.
  

• The White House Transition Project

"Since 1997, the White House Transition Project has combined the efforts of scholars, universities, and policy institutions to smooth out the American presidential transition. WHTP bridges the gaps between the partisan forces engaged in settling elections and the decision processes essential to governing by providing non-partisan information about the challenges of the American presidential transition and the strategies for overcoming those challenges. It provides these and other resources to presidential campaigns, to the president-elect, and to the new administration. These resources include three seperate report series providing a White House institutional memory, perspectives on past transitions, and advanced reserach covering special aspects of transitions and governing. The WHTP also provides unique analysis of the appointments process and a clearinghouse on other transition resources."

• New York Times -- excellent profiles of nominees/appointees
• Washington Post -- 44: Obama Presidency: Transition to Power
• The Fed Page -- a regular feature section covering government
• CNN's Transition to Power -- lots of video with transition news.
  
• PBS Newshour -- Obama's Transition to Power
  

• Renewing America's Promise: the Democratic Party 2008 Platform -- how well does the Obama agenda mesh with the Party Platform?
• Republican National Committee -- see what the opposition thinks.
  

• Albright, Madeleine.  Memo to the President elect: how we can restore America's reputation and leadership
  
• What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-elect .  Brookings Institution, Nov. 2007.