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Saturday, November 7, 2009
 
 
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Social and Cultural Studies
 

AEI's research is informed by the understanding that freedom and prosperity depend on healthy social institutions. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on social and cultural studies.

 
In the Spotlight

"Those hesitant about replacing turnarounds with closures should simply remember that a failed business doesn't indict capitalism and an unseated incumbent doesn't indict democracy. Though temporarily painful, both are essential mechanisms for maintaining long-term systemwide quality, responsiveness, and innovation."

-- Andrew Smarick, article in Education Next, October 27, 2009 

 

 


Publications


 
 
 
 
Slipping Growth
 
With few born and far too many dying, Russia is caught in a demographic straitjacket.
 
This Could Take Awhile
 
In previous generations we had to devise solutions to deal with the dangers of tobacco and cars, and today we must learn how to combat the causes of obesity.
 
AEI People and Programs, October 30, 2009
 
This issue covers the health care debate, the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index, the swine flu and more.
 
 
The Science on Women and Science (forthcoming)
 
This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.  
 
The Politically Correct University Problems, Scope, and Reforms
 
Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.  
 
Citizenship in America and Europe Beyond the Nation-State?
 
Scholars from both sides of the Atlantic consider how concepts of citizenship affect debates over immigration and assimilation, tolerance and minority rights, and national cohesion and civic culture.  
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
Former Speaker of the House and AEI scholar Newt Gingrich will discuss how, in addition to the political, economic, and military factors that...
 
 
P. J. Hill, the George F. Bennett Professor of Economics at Wheaton College, will discuss the theology of human nature, humanity's relationship...
 
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has grown fivefold--a rate unprecedented in American history. Is there an alternative to incarceration?
 
 
This event will discuss the Obama administration's education policy and the future of education.