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The Goldwater Institute is a Phoenix, Arizona-based public policy think-tank established in 1988. The president is Darcy A. Olsen. The Goldwater Institute advances public policies with emphasis on lower taxes, limited government spending, school choice, and a reduction in government management of the economy. It describes itself as "an independent, nonpartisan research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy in Arizona," and it is devoted to the principles championed by the late Senator Barry Goldwater such as "individual rights, economic freedom, and a government of strictly limited powers." Today the Goldwater Institute has a staff of 12 and a 2005 budget slightly over $1.4 million. In addition, the Goldwater Institute has a number of affiliated senior fellows who are not in residence, including Carrie Lukas, Dan Lips, Randy Barnett, Dr. James Gwartney, Alan Kors, and Gordon Tullock. Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ...
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Cultural conservatism is conservatism with respect to culture. ...
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Social conservatism generally refers to a political ideology or personal belief system that advocates the conservation or resurrection of what one, or ones community, considers to be traditional morality and social structure. ...
National conservatism is a political term used primarily in Europe to describe a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests than standard conservatism, while not being nationalist or a far-right approach. ...
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Libertarianism is a political philosophy that holds that individuals should be allowed complete freedom of action as long as they do not infringe on the freedom of others. ...
Fiscal conservatism (also known as economic liberalism) is a term used in the United States to refer to economic and political policy that advocates restraint of government taxation, government expenditures and deficits, and government debt. ...
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Social conservatism generally refers to a political ideology or personal belief system that advocates the conservation or resurrection of what one, or ones community, considers to be traditional morality and social structure. ...
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Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country State County Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government - Type Council-Manager - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area - City 515. ...
Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
Darcy Olsen (born 1973) is the president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute, a free-market, limited government think tank in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ...
Randy Barnett Randy E. Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is a lawyer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a legal theorist in the United States. ...
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient Alan Kors. ...
Gordon Tullock (born February 13, 1922 in Rockford, Illinois) is currently professor of law and economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. ...
Financial support The Institute's funding comes from private foundations and from hundreds of individual Arizonans. The Institute does not accept government funds. Its 2005 revenues were just under $1.5 million.
Issues On education reform, the Goldwater Institute has published articles critical of the AIMS standardized test, critical of the No Child Left Behind Act, in favor of school vouchers for higher education, and opposed to bilingual education. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...
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President Bush signing the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act at Hamilton H.S. in Hamilton, Ohio. ...
An education voucher, commonly called a school voucher, is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they were assigned. ...
Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through two different languages - in the United States, instruction occurs in English and a minority language, such as Spanish or Chinese, with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model. ...
On economic policy, the Goldwater Institute has published articles favoring supply-side economics, popularized by Arthur Laffer, tax cuts, and spending reductions. Supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created using incentives for people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as adjusting income tax and capital gains tax rates. ...
Arthur Betz Laffer, Sr. ...
On constitutional policy, the Goldwater Institute has been critical of Arizona's Clean Elections system and campaign finance reform in general and has criticized government abuse of eminent domain power. Clean Elections (sometimes called Clean Money or Voter-Owned Elections) is a system of government financing of political campaigns used in a small number of states and local political jurisdictions in the United States. ...
Political campaign Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box: Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. ...
Eminent domain (United States), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (Canada, South Africa) in common law legal systems is the inherent power of the state to seize a citizens private property, expropriate property, or rights in property, without the owner...
The Goldwater Institute opposes government bans on the use of tobacco in public establishments.
Litigation Center The Goldwater Institute created the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, directed by Clint Bolick, in June 2007. The Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation will engage in lawsuits against the government to ensure adherence to constitutional law and to protect individual rights, such as property rights, from potential government intrusion. The Goldwater Institute currently funds its litigation center entirely from donations and sues on behalf of Arizonans free of charge. Clint Bolick is the President and General Counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, a national nonprofit educational policy group advocating school choice programs across the country. ...
The Goldwater filed its first case on June 22, 2007 defending five charter schools from Arizona's department of education.[1]
Currently the Goldwater Institute has four lawsuits against government bodies in Arizona. The first, Charter School v. Horne is a suit against the Arizona Department of Education's social studies mandate.[2]. In the second lawsuit the Goldwater Institute is suing the city of Phoenix over a $100 million corporate subsidy which the Goldwater Institute claims is illegal under the Arizona constitution.[3]
The Goldwater Institutes's third lawsuit seeks to terminate the "Cultural Impact Fee" in Mesa, Arizona. The cultural impact fee is tax charged to new homes to fund local museums. The fourth case, Preston v. Hallman, sues the city of Tempe on behalf of a tattoo parlor owner whose permit to operate in Tempe was revoked based on stereotypes of people with tattoos.[4]
See also Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ...
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External links - The Goldwater Institute
- Playing Politics with brutal crime, Arizona Republic, July 27, 2006
Goldwater Institute in the Media - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPx3IRjQt2o
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annS8qTBrhM
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA7S6PWBieM
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrxjuPMX3OI
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