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The Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes policy based on the principles of limited government, individual liberty, and free enterprise. NPRI’s main areas of research are school choice, taxation, worker freedom, state budgetary concerns, and transparency in government.
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The Pelican Institute for Public Policy is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty at the state level in Louisiana. 21 The Pelican Institute’s research and analysis
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The Show-Me Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank promoting free-market policy and limited government in Missouri. The Institute’s research areas include education, healthcare, tax reform, and local and state government. The Institute has published work in support of school choice programs, tax reform, and increased government transparency.
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The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) is a nonpartisan think tank that conducts local, state, and national economic public policy research. 60 BHI uses its economic and statistical models
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The Granite Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank that focuses its research on educational choice programs and tax reform in New Hampshire. 72 The Granite Institute is affiliated with Granite Action, a nonprofit advocacy
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The Great Plains Public Policy Institute (GPPPI) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that supports policies promoting free enterprise and individual liberty in South Dakota. GPPPI publishes research and commentary on policies focused on South Dakota’s economy, education, and government spending and taxation.
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The Institute for Justice (IJ) is a libertarian public interest law firm that pursues constitutional litigation in support of free-market ideals, school choice, free speech, and private property rights. IJ also runs advocacy programs, research initiatives, and trainings to promote free-market economic policy.
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The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is a think tank which promotes right-of-center policies intended to improve family formation and child care. The institute also supports conservative perspectives towards marriage and family structure. In addition to research and advocacy, IFS tracks statistics such as birth rates and income levels in
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The Center of the American Experiment (CAE) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that supports policies promoting free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty in Minnesota. CAE researches and publishes papers on Minnesota’s economy, health care, education, state and local governance, and employee freedom. CAE also proposes policy approaches,
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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded by Libertarian Party activist Ed Crane, libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, and businessman Charles Koch, the organization conducts policy research in support of libertarian policies and has been credited with bringing libertarian thought into mainstream political argumentation.
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Frontiers of Freedom Institute is or was a Fairfax, Virginia based nonprofit education and advocacy group. The organization is the sister organization of the Frontiers of Freedom lobbying organization. The organizations were founded by the late former U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY). A major focus of the organization is the
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The Archbridge Institute is a right-leaning public policy think tank that conducts academic research in order to propose policy solutions intended to increase opportunities for individuals. The Institute purports that “artificial barriers” created by public policy limit opportunity and thereby stand in the way of individual success, especially at is
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The Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI) is an organization promoting free-market health care policies with the intention of protecting the direct doctor-patient relationship by encouraging a direct pay model. BRI brings together medical students, faculty, health care professionals, and free market healthcare advocates to promote its ideas via lectures, educational conferences, and its
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The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a public interest law firm that specializes in Native American tribal law and representation. Since its founding in 1970, NARF has been one of the most prominent organizations involved in litigation affecting Native American tribes and the development of American Indian law. Founding
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American Compass is a think tank which considers itself a part of the “conservative labor movement.” American Compass was founded by Oren Cass, a former advisor to then-U.S. Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) presidential campaigns and a labor and environmental policy analyst. In American Compass’s founding letter, Cass describes the
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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a left-of-center, anti-business advocacy and organizing organization. ILSR was co-founded in 1974 by David Morris, Neil Seldman, and Gil Friend to research and establish communities that do not participate in the external market economy.
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Inter-American Dialogue, also operating under the name The Dialogue, is a foreign policy think tank that pushes for both left-of-center and right-of-center policies in Latin America. 413 Inter-American Dialogue focuses on four program areas: Education, Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries,
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The Hope Enterprise Corporation is a left-of-center advocacy group founded in 1994. Formerly known as the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, Hope Enterpirse Corporation focuses on urban and housing development in the Southern United States.
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The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) is a right-of-center environmental advocacy group with financial and advisory board ties to left-of-center environmentalist groups. The group was founded by Benjamin “Benji” Backer, then-a student at the University of Washington, who led the group until 2023 when Danielle Butcher Franz became CEO and Chris
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
