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The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.In the inaugural volume of an eight-book series, renowned historians and political scientists explore what the contested idea of democracy meant to those who participated in the American Revolution. For some, democracy represented a particular way to order government, while others understood democracy to be a transformative principle that would serve as the philosophical bedrock of not just the new republic's political institutions but its social and cultural ones as well.Examining the democratic culture that was born out of the American Revolution can help us understand the framework within which we continue to debate the structure and purpose of the system of government that binds us together today.

In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and democratic globalism.

The Happiness of the People was the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute's Annual Dinner on March 11, 2009. The Irving Kristol Award is given annually to a scholar who has made extraordinary contributions to improved public policy and social welfare.

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in incomenot poverty per seis bad for people's health.

This monograph suggests that the world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.

This book explores the negative consequences of attempts to protect key U.S. manufacturing industries through the use of antidumping laws.

This volume shows that the public policy concerns are not accidental, because such industries often embody two major and widely recognized forms of potential market failure

Drug coverage for seniors is better addressed by private-sector plans than by forcing manufacturers to offer Federal Supply Schedule discounts to the retail sector.

This work draws on nine case studies to determine the motivation for bank mergers, to assess the advertised gains in efficiency and services, and to resolve inconsistencies between econometric studies and comparisons of performance in different US states and in different countries.

This book calculates the deadweight loss caused by the inefficient method of taxation that the Federal Communications Commission has employed and describes an alternative method.

If some members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission have their way, they will mandate free television for federal candidates.

This text examines information from surveys of public attitudes to assess people's views about the government's role in reducing income differences between the rich and poor.

Two achievementsup the poor and animating civil societyare powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.

The author discusses key concepts in consumption and income taxes and identifies the problems of a transition to a consumption-based system.

Envisioned as a symbol of President Clinton's commitment to social change, the Vaccines for Children Program was designed to be a single-payer system for childhood vaccines, covering everyone up to the age of eighteen, but today the program is in disarray

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

This book discusses how global budgets relate to competitive cost-control strategies.

This book discusses President Bill Clinton's approach to health care industry reform.

This book discusses the economic effects of health care reform on the federal budget, the labor market, income distribution, innovation, and the adminstration of health care.

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In 1989, for the first time since 1947, the ruling nationalist party in the Republic of China in Taiwan competed in free elections with other major political parties for the right to govern. This work describes the results of the national, provincial and local electoral contests.

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The authors offer principles for reform designed to encourage equity, efficiency, and accountability in all publicly funded health care programs.

Medicare is quickly approaching insolvency, in part because the program pays too much for the services it provides. In Bring Market Prices to Medicare, Robert F. Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan E. Dowd propose a groundbreaking solution: Use market-based arrangements to set prices for Medicare plans.

U.S. Markets for Vaccines: Characteristics, Case Studies, and Controversies examines several case studiesincluding vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, seasonal influenza, chicken pox, and shinglesthat demonstrate the diverse dynamics of vaccine markets.