- Progressive Domestic Think-Tanks See Drop (August 1, 2003)
...from across the political spectrum, from conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and Family Research Council, centrist think tanks like NBER and th... - Thinkers Launch Anti-Empire Drive (October 27, 2003)
...former president Ronald Reagan and now a senior officer at the libertarian Cato Institute, Scott McConnell, chief editor of The American Conservative magazine a... - Oiling Up the Draft Machine? (November 3, 2003)
...actics," says Charles Peña, director of defense studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. "There the British needed a ratio of 10 soldiers per 1,000 population to... - Empire Undressed (November 13, 2004)
...Eland was previously director of defense policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and as such, has observed imperialistic interventions b... - Lessons From Pre-9/11 Warnings (May 17, 2002)
...ery compartmentalized," says Charles PeÒa, a senior defense analyst at the Cato Institute here. "People literally don't talk to each other." Besides turf battles, o... - Terrorism Law Nabs Common Criminals (September 14, 2003)
...he Cold War. Tim Lynch, director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said it isn't far fetched to believe that the g... - Gulf War Cost 158,000 Lives, Researcher's Job (January 5, 2003)
...raqi casualties," said Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign-policy expert at the Cato Institute. "But... the administration is serious about keeping them low... . Its str... - Anti-War Students Rock the Vote (August 4, 2003)
...ironic," laughs Hartl. "We're using culture to show that Karl Rove and the Cato Institute are dorks and losers." Hartl, who voted for Ralph Nader in 1996 and 20... - Dizzying Dive to Red Ink Poses Stark Choices for Washington (September 14, 2003)
...ither overall spending or tax cutting is changing course. The conservative Cato Institute noted tartly last month that Mr. Bush had never vetoed a spending bill, ha... - Al-Qaeda's Thumbs Up for Bush (June 24, 2004)
...n these foreign lands was supplied by defense specialist Ivan Eland of the Cato Institute. Listing incidents that could be proven to have a direct correlation to US... - Castle Rock Foundation
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- Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, "The Hot New Americans Get Hotter," Washington Post, November 26, 2002, p. A27.
- Mike Huben, "The CATO Institute," in "Critiques Of Libertarianism."
- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. "Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future"
- Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, "No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda"
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Cato Institute
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Cato Institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) with strong libertarian leanings, headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is named after Cato's Letters, a series of early 18th century British essays exponding the libertarian principles of John Locke, which the Cato Institute's founders say helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. Cato's Letters in turn were named after the Roman politician Cato the Younger.
Founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane and Charles G. Koch, its stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace" by seeking greater involvement of the "lay public in questions of public policy and the role of government."
Members of the Cato Institute are frequently cited as non-partisan experts on many news programs. Some have criticized this, pointing to the specific ideological views of the Institute and the corporations and conservative foundations that fund it. A cynical but factual view is that the major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists that are conveniently free of reference to funders and directors such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries.
In November 2002, shortly after Cato was named the "Best Advocacy Website" by the Web Marketing Association, the Alexa ratings service issued a report saying that it was "the most popular think tank site over the past three months," receiving a total of 188,901 unique visitors during the previous month of September. [1]
Funding
Between 1985 and 2001, the Institute received $15,633,540 in 108 separate grants from only nine different foundations:
Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have both served on the board of directors of Cato, which has numerous ties to the Republican Party. However, Cato has sometimes differed with Republican Party positions on specific issues, such as the 2003 decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq. Cato has also criticized the 1998 settlement that many U.S. states signed with the tobacco industry.[2]
Contact Information
http://www.cato.org/1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20001-5403
Phone (202) 842-0200
Fax (202) 842-3490
External links