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Author:: Michael S. Greve
Publication Date:: 05-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Liberals who have long sought progressive constitutional interpretation now call for judicial restraint, hoping to protect liberal precedents by warning that conservative judges seek to restore a traditional understanding of the Constitution.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Frederick M. Hess
Publication Date:: 05-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Assessing many educational practices through scientific principles can be useful, but reformers must ensure that the push for scientific inquiry does not stifle reforms, such as promoting flexibility, competition, and accountability, that do not lend themselves as readily to rigorous scientific evaluation.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Michael Rubin
Publication Date:: 05-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Although the mistakes of the past two years in relations between the United States and Turkey cannot be undone, Washington and Ankara stand to lose a great deal if relations continue to deteriorate. If differences can be overcome, however, this partnership could help to resolve important regional issues such as the status of Kirkuk and Iraqi constitutional debates, and to ensure Iraqi stability and Turkish security.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: United States, Iraq, and Turkey

Author:: Danielle Pletka
Publication Date:: 05-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Only economic liberalization and political freedom can quell the frustration that breeds Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: Middle East

Author:: James R. Lilley
Publication Date:: 04-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Nationalistic competition between Japan and China could undermine progress on economic and security concerns in east Asia. U.S. diplomacy has an important role in preventing that.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: Japan, China, and Asia

Author:: Peter J. Wallison
Publication Date:: 04-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Curtailing the ability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to hold mortgages and mortgage-backed securities will lower the risks these two government-sponsored enterprises pose to taxpayers and the economy yet will not undermine whatever support they give to the residential housing market.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel
Publication Date:: 04-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Indignation over the perceived insult rendered by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers in suggesting the possibility of innate differences between men and women has exposed the lack of intellectual debate that prevails in modern academia.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Alex J. Pollock
Publication Date:: 04-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Personal retirement accounts with a structure using inflation-indexed Treasury bonds would deliver the benefits of personal accounts without the risks or costs often cited by critics of such accounts and could transform Social Security.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Allan H. Meltzer
Publication Date:: 03-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Paul Wolfowitz can provide effective leadership for the World Bank by expanding monitored performance grants to poor countries and by rewarding staff members who develop programs that genuinely improve the quality of life for the poor.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Daniel Shaviro
Publication Date:: 03-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: David F. Bradford (1939-2005), professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, was an AEI adjunct scholar and occasional visiting scholar, and the author of several AEI studies of tax policy issues, which are listed with other important works of his at the end of this essay.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

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