The following is the PAIS List of Subject Headings with 24 Broad
Topics and 306 Subtopics.
Administration of justice
- Courts and judicial power
- Crime and criminals
- International courts
- Judgments and sentences
- Legal procedure
- Legal profession and occupations
- Police and law enforcement
- Prisoners and imprisonment
- Prisons and correctional facilities and personnel
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing and agricultural
policy
- Agricultural economics and farm holdings
- Agricultural extension, research, and technology
- Agricultural population and workers
- Agriculture and agricultural policy
- Beverage industry
- Crop management
- Fiber industry
- Fish industry
- Forests and forest products industry
- Fruit industry
- Grain, seed, and nut industries
- Livestock, meat, and animal products industry
- Oils and fats
- Processed food industries
- Vegetable industry
Banking and public and private finance
- Banking and financial personnel
- Banking operations and services
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Central banks
- Commodity exchanges
- Credit and loans
- Currency
- Financial instruments
- Financial planning and risk
- International banking and finance
- International financial institutions
- Investments and securities
- Money and monetary policy
- Personal finance and saving
- Philanthropy
- Public finance
- Stock exchanges
- Taxation and tax policy
Business and service sector
- Accounting
- Acquisitions and mergers
- Advertising and public relations
- Business and business enterprises
- Business and government
- Business finance
- Business operations and practices
- Business organization, administration, and management
- Entertainment business
- Entrepreneurs, executives, and business personnel and occupations
- Hospitality and tourism business
- Insurance
- Markets, marketing, and merchandising
- Personal and housekeeping services
- Personnel management
- Real estate business
- Retail business
Culture and religion
- Architecture
- Arts and arts policy
- Calendars, special days, and ceremonies
- Cultural heritage and preservation
- Culture and civilization
- Intellectual life
- Language and languages
- Literature
- Multiculturalism and cultural relations
- Museums, memorials, and monuments
- Music
- National characteristics
- Religion and religious groups
- Symbols, emblems, and awards
Economic conditions and policy
- Consumers and consumption
- Economic conditions
- Economic policy, planning, and development
- Economic relations
- Economic research
- Economic theory
- Infrastructure
- Property and wealth
Education and education policy
- Adult, technical, and vocational education
- Colleges and universities
- Curriculum
- Education
- Education financing, facilities, and equipment
- Education personnel and population
- Education policy and planning
- Educational psychology and learning ability
- Information services and sources
- Libraries
- Research centers and laboratories
- School administration
- Schools
- Statistics, research, and research methods and financing
- Study abroad
- Teaching methods
Energy resources and policy
- Coal industry
- Electric power
- Energy policy
- Energy research and technology
- Fuels
- Natural gas industry
- Nuclear power
- Petroleum industry
- Renewable energy sources
Environment and environmental policy
- Animals
- Buildings and structures
- Ecology
- Environmental policy
- Forest management
- Geography and cartography
- Land resources and use
- Mining and mineral resources
- Natural disasters
- Ocean and ocean resources
- Parks, nature reserves, and open spaces
- Plants
- Pollution and environmental degradation
- Radioactive and dangerous substances
- Wastes and waste management
- Water, waterways, and water management
- Weather and climate
Government
- Central or federal government
- Communism and socialism
- Executive power
- Foreign relations
- Government agencies and bodies
- Government employees
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internal security
- Legislative power and procedure
- Local and municipal government
- Nation state
- Public administration
- Public officials
- Public policy
- Public services and utilities
- State or regional government
Health conditions and policy
- Diseases and disorders
- Food and nutrition
- Health and health policy and financing
- Hospitals and other health care facilities
- Medical research and technology
- Medicine and health care
- Mental health
- Physicians, nurses, and other health personnel
- Women's and children's health
Human rights
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social, and cultural rights
- Human rights promotion and violations
International relations
- Diplomacy
- International and regional organizations
- International peace and security
- International relations
- International relief and humanitarian assistance
- Treaties
- War
Labor conditions and policy
- Employment and labor supply
- Labor conditions, wages, salaries, and benefits
- Labor policy
- Occupational health and safety
- Unions
- Work and labor
- Work design
- Workplaces
Law and ethics
- Administrative law
- Civil law
- Commercial law
- Constitutional law
- Corporations and securities law
- Criminal law
- Environmental law
- Ethics
- Family law
- Health law
- Immigration law
- Intellectual property, copyright, patent, and trademark law
- International law
- Labor law
- Landlord and tenant law
- Law and jurisprudence
- Liability, torts, and personal injury
- Local government law
- Maritime law
- Military and martial law
- Public law
- Real estate and property law
- Trusts, estates, and probate law
Manufacturing and heavy industry
- Appliance and furnishings industries
- Automotive industry
- Building and construction
- Chemical industries
- Clothing and textile industry
- Computer and electronics industry
- Container industry
- Industrial management, production, and productivity
- Industrial materials
- Industry and industrial policy
- Machinery and equipment industry
- Manufacturing and manufactured goods
- Metals industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Toilet goods industry
Media, telecommunications, and information policy
- Broadcasting
- Communication systems
- Electronic data processing, transmission, and retrieval
- Film and video
- Information policy
- Journalism and the news
- Mass media
- Press
- Print media and publishing
- Radio
- Telecommunications
- Telephone
- Television
Military and defense policy
- Military bases and buildings
- Military equipment and weapons
- Military personnel
- Military planning, strategy, and operations
- Military policy
- Military service
- Military spending
- National security
- Veterans
Politics
- Campaigns, lobbying, and pressure groups
- Elections and voting
- Insurgency, and counterinsurgency
- Nationalism
- Political dissent
- Political ethics
- Political ideologies and movements
- Political parties and groups
- Political status
- Politics
Population groups, population policy, and
demographics
- Children and youth
- Demography and census
- Disabled
- Ethnic and racial groups
- Family planning
- Immigrants and aliens
- Immigration and immigration policy
- Men
- Migrants and migration
- Native races
- Refugees
- Women
Science and technology policy
- Astronomy and space science and technology
- Biology and biotechnology
- Chemistry and physics
- Computer science and information technology
- Engineering
- Geology, oceanography, and mineral research
- Mathematics
- Photography
- Science and science policy
- Scientific equipment
- Scientific research
- Scientists, engineers, and technical workers
- Technology and technology policy
Social conditions and policy
- Alcohol and drug addiction and trafficking
- Associations and meetings
- Communication
- Community life and organization
- Discrimination and affirmative action
- History
- Housing
- Leisure, recreation, and hobbies
- Marriage and family life
- Poverty and homelessness
- Psychology
- Public welfare and social services
- Race relations
- Rural conditions
- Safety and security
- Sex
- Social conditions and problems
- Social movements
- Social policy
- Social research
- Social sciences and social scientists
- Social status
- Social values
- Sports
- Urban conditions
- Volunteerism
Trade and trade policy
- Commercial treaties and agreements
- Common markets, free trade associations, and monetary unions
- Customs administration and duties
- Export-import trade
- Free trade and protection
Transportation and transportation policy
- Air transport
- Freight transport
- Highways
- Inland water transport
- Mail and delivery service
- Maritime industry and transport
- Motor transport
- Motor vehicles
- Railroads and trains
- Ships and boats
- Traffic and traffic regulation
- Transportation
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban transport
