Publishing Institution: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research / Topic: Government

Author:: J. Gregory Sidak
Publication Date:: 09-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Legal criticism of broadcast regulation typically starts by demonstrating the paradoxically disparate treatment of print media and broadcast media under the First Amendment. In contrast, economic criticism typically starts by demonstrating that the scarcity of the electromagnetic spectrum, to the questionable extent that it exists, does not distinguish broadcasting from any other medium of communications for which the essential factors of production are privately owned and ordered. Each line of criticism is powerful. And each continues to the current day to appear again and again in court challenges to broadcast regulation. It is more useful, however, to model broadcast regulation in terms of the creation and dissipation of rent.
Topic:: Economics, Government, and Human Rights
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Karlyn H. Bowman and Todd J. Weiner
Publication Date:: 11-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: More than a dozen corporate scandals have unfolded since December 2001. How have ordinary Americans reacted? One answer can be provided by the performance of the stock market. Another indicator is public opinion. As some of the key trials get underway, it's worth examining the polls to see how the scandals have affected perceptions of business. The results should provide some warning flags for Congress as that institution takes a closer look at the mutual fund industry.
Topic:: Economics, Government, and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: United States and America

Author:: Karlyn H. Bowman
Publication Date:: 08-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Democrats lead Republicans by a substantial margin nationally as the party best able to handle environmental issues, as the first table in this collection shows. The second table looks at the power of the issue on Election Day. In 2000, for example, 9 percent of voters nationwide told exit pollsters from the Los Angeles Times that the environment was one of the top two issues for them in casting their vote. These voters pulled the lever for Gore over Bush, by 76 to 12 percent. As in elections past, other issues were more important to larger numbers of voters. In the 2000 Los Angeles Times exit poll, almost four times as many voters (35 percent) checked morals/ethical values as the top issue for them on the exit poll ballot.
Topic:: Environment, Government, Science and Technology, and Treaties and Agreements
Political Geography:: Los Angeles

Author:: Karlyn H. Bowman
Publication Date:: 09-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Polls should not be used to make policy whether the issue is sending troops into battle or shoring up Social Security. They are too crude for that purpose. That said, policy makers need to be aware of what the public is thinking. That is what this collection is designed to do. We are very grateful for the cooperation the pollsters have given us in making this collection possible. The document is a work in progress. We began putting it together in late September 2001, and we have updated it weekly, adding new sections as new issues have arisen. With 14 national pollsters in the field on a regular basis, the polling environment has become very competitive. The different ways that pollsters approach a topic and the responses they receive are often useful in understanding what Americans are thinking.
Topic:: Security, Government, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States, Iraq, and Palestine

Author:: Lucien Leape, Richard Platt, Hugh Tilson, Janet Woodcock, Michael Cohen, Susan Ellenberg, and Eleanor Vogt
Publication Date:: 07-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The withdrawal of several medications from the market in recent months has coincided with the publication of a stream of articles on drug safety in prominent journals. These developments have caused policy makers, pharmaceutical firms, physicians, and the Food and Drug Administration to look especially closely at drug safety and to consider the following questions: With the increased pace of drug approvals, is sufficient attention being paid to drug safety? Are markets and regulators doing a good job of monitoring safety? Is there more to be done?
Topic:: Government
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: James Q. Wilson, James W. Ceaser, David Frum, Everett Carll Ladd, Alan Charles Kors, Christina Hoff Sommers, Virginia Postrel, and Joshua Muravchik
Publication Date:: 06-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The comedian Howie Mandel begins his speeches by clutching this little desk here and shouting: “Hey, if I'd known there was going to be a podium, I wouldn't have worn pants.” It's a well–worn joke, but I feel a certain proprietary claim to it. Howie Mandel is a fellow–Torontonian, and my father, in his first career as a dentist, fixed his teenage teeth.
Topic:: International Relations, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Harvey C. Mansfield, Robert S. Royal, Hadley Arkes, Charles Taylor, Charles Murray, Richard Epstein, Samuel P. Huntington, and Charles R. Kesler
Publication Date:: 06-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: For American conservatives, this is a strange period of anticlimax and indecision. Crime rates are down, welfare rolls are shrinking, the federal budget is in surplus, and there are fewer Democratic senators, congressmen, governors, and state legislators than in decades. Even more miraculously, the Soviet Union lies in history's dustbin. Yet despite these glad tidings, conservatives are not rejoicing or even gloating. Nor are they aggressively following up their successes, pressing liberalism on all fronts and striving for a decisive political breakthrough. Like General McClellan outside Richmond, conservatives are proud to have come so far — but, uncertain of the kind of victory they seek and feeling an infinite need for reinforcements, they are afraid to risk going much farther.
Topic:: International Relations, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: United States and Soviet Union

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