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The Witherspoon Institute is a right-of-center think tank based in Princeton, New Jersey which has opposed same-sex marriage and embryonic stem-cell research. 1 The
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The Center for Independent Thought (CIT) is a non-partisan educational organization that promotes individual liberty and free markets. 1 CIT creates and distributes videos, trains teachers, and makes grants to classical liberal scholars
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The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI) is a non-partisan, public policy think tank that advocates for free markets, especially as it regards consumer interests. 1 ACI
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The Charles Koch Institute (CKI) is a libertarian-leaning nonprofit educational organization located in Arlington, Virginia, that is the principle funding vehicle for public policy-related giving for billionaire businessman and donor Charles Koch. The organization was founded by Koch and has close ties to many right-leaning organizations that have received
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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 Virginia Institute for Public Policy is a center-right nonprofit think tank that is based in Abingdon, Virginia. The institute is a member of the center-right of state-based think thanks known as the State Policy Network. It is also a member of the international center-right network of think tanks
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The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) is a nonpartisan think tank that conducts local, state, and national economic public policy research. 1 BHI uses its economic and statistical models
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The Center for Independent Employees (CIE) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that provides free legal aid to employees who do not wish to participate in their workplace’s union. 1Top of FormBottom of Form The
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The Institute for Free Speech (IFS; formerly the Center for Competitive Politics) is an activist organization that works to stop perceived threats to freedom of expression and assembly. The institute provides education and training, conducts research, engages in advocacy, and files lawsuits in order to achieve its objectives. IFS claims
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Not to be confused with the Independent Institute, a California-based center-right think tank. The Independence Institute (II) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty. II’s policy centers produce research and analysis supporting a free market, pro-freedom agenda in the areas
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a right-of-center educational nonprofit that creates programming and educational materials for college students. The institute was first led by conservative journalist and National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr., and promotes libertarian and conservative political-economic thought. The organization is based in Wilmington, Delaware, and
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The Badger Institute (formerly the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute) is a non-partisan, public policy think tank that advocates for policy supporting free markets, limited government, and private initiative. The Institute’s main areas of focus are taxes, education, and criminal justice.
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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 libertarianism into the political mainstream.
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The Open Markets Institute is a left-leaning think tank that focuses on monopolies and how to break them up. The organization sees monopolization and corporate concentration as a threat to “democracy, individual liberties, and national security.” The organization was officially launched in September 2017 as an independent organization. Previously, most
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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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The Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development (ISED) is a left-of-center entity that lobbies philanthropies to fund issues and causes related to left-progressive visions of race and ethnicity.
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Unite America Institute (UAI) is a center-left, Colorado-based, advocacy organization that supports structural changes in the election system it claims will reduce voter partisanship and benefit ostensibly “centrist” and independent candidates for public office. 1
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The Perception Institute began as a project of the Institute for America’s Future to use research to release reports, conduct trainings, and otherwise advocate for left-of-center perspectives on racial, gender, and other alleged biases in American culture and society.
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a Washington D.C.-based center-left environmental organization. It grew out of the Environmental Study Conference, caucus of federal legislators founded by two liberal Democrats and two centrist Republicans.
