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PROJECTS
About The National Research Initiative
The American Enterprise Institute launched the National Research Initiative (NRI) in 2002 to support, publish, and disseminate research by university-based academics and other intellectuals engaged in the exploration of pressing public policy issues.
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Robert Maranto (University of Arkansas), Richard E. Redding (Chapman University School of Law), and Frederick M. Hess (AEI’s resident scholar), along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, have completed their new book, The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms. The authors explore the idea of “diversity” and how the culture of political correctness influences American higher education. While universities are promoting diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, they still lack diversity of ideas, the authors argue. Along with empirical research on the role of conservative professors and students in the academy, the contributors of the book examine the effects of politically correct university on academic paths of students, particularly conservative and libertarian students, and provide suggestions for reforms. |
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Projects
| The National Research Initiative mobilizes America's academics to fight the battle of ideas. NRI's philosophy gives rise to a wide-ranging, aggressive portfolio of projects, ranging from agriculture to transportation. Our staff works hard to identify talented academics then equip them with the resources necessary to produce compelling and original public policy work. Some examples of NRI's work include: - Steven J. Davis (AEI and University of Chicago) is organizing a monograph series on social and economic well-being and inequality with Erik Hurst (University of Chicago), Mark Aguiar (University of Rochester), Orazio Attanasio (University College London), Eric Battistin (University of Chicago), Mario Padula (University of Salerno), David E. Weinstein (Columbia University) and Christian Broda (University of Chicago). The first monograph of the series, Prices, Poverty, and Inequality by Broda and Weinstein, was released in November, 2008. The series aims to broaden the discussion on economic well-being beyond income inequality and poverty indices to present a more detailed picture of social economic well-being.
- In a book entitled Including Marginal Damages: The Next Step in Market-Driven Air Pollution Regulation, Robert Mendelsohn (Yale University) and Nicholas Muller (Middlebury College) argue that establishing cap-and-trade policies on the damage caused by pollutants such as SO2 and particulate matter is the next step in efficient pollution control.
- Rick Geddes (Cornell University) is working on a monograph on private sector involvement in surface transportation issues. His work will show how market pricing and private-public partnerships can ameliorate many of our surface transportation shortcomings.
Click here for a complete list of NRI's projects | | |
 | | Lawrence M. Mead is a visiting scholar with NRI and widely acknowledged as one of the intellectual godfathers of welfare reform. As employment prospects for low-income individuals worsen in the midst of recession, Mead is studying how to reduce prisoner recidivism and rebuild low-income families through work. Using a "help but hassle" approach, welfare reform transformed the habits of millions of single mothers by creating an expectation for work which established employment as a condition to aid. Ultimately, welfare rolls decreased by over 60%. Mead believes the same principles used on a program for low-income men, who often find themselves enmeshed in child support or probation systems, can yield a similar transformation. While at AEI, Mead will:
• Convene leading experts on welfare reform and men's employment programs for conferences at AEI. On November 14, 2008 Mead held a conference, titled Why Did Welfare Caseloads Collapse? The Mystery of Diversion, which discussed the principles behind welfare reform and what motivated women to bypass welfare altogether to seek work. He will hold another event in May which will focus primarily on how to reform men's work programs.
• Conduct field research on men's work programs around the country. He has met with administrators from parole offices, child support agencies, corrections facilities, and reentry programs in Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, New Jersey, and Texas.
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