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  • September 18, 2006
    Policy Analysis
    No. 578
    Iran’s Nuclear Program: America’s Policy Options
    … issue of Iran’s nuclear program, it is more likely that those negotiations will fail. If that happens, U.S. policymakers face a set of highly imperfect options. One option—and the most likely initial response—is to seek a …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • August 17, 2006
    Policy Analysis
    No. 575
    Toward Property Rights in Spectrum: The Difficult Policy Choices Ahead
    Executive Summary The vision laid out by economist Ronald Coase in his 1959 paper on spectrum remains the guiding light for spectrum policy reform. Property‐​like rights in electromagnetic spectrum and a secondary market for spectrum licenses are well recognized …
    By Dale Hatfield and Phil Weiser
  • March 17, 2005
    Policy Analysis
    No. 538
    Liberating the Roads: Reforming U.S. Highway Policy
    … to sunset in 1972 but instead continues to this day. In addition, federal regulations increase construction costs and stifle innovative policy experiments in the states. Before the federal government took on the role of financing highways in 20th century, that …
    By Gabriel Roth
  • March 1, 2005
    Policy Analysis
    No. 537
    Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2004
    As states continue to claw their way out of the worst state budget hole in years, this report presents the findings of the Cato Institute’s seventh biennial fiscal policy report card on the nation’s governors. The report card …
    By Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski
  • January 1, 2005
    Books
    Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East
    Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East
    About the Book Leon Hadar provides a sweeping re-examination of the conceptual bases of American policy and proposes a strategy of “constructive disengagement” from the region, a policy of benign neglect to promote the interests of the United States …
    By Leon T. Hadar
  • October 29, 2003
    Policy Analysis
    No. 495
    The Struggle for School Choice Policy after Zelman: Regulation vs. the Free Market
    … and funding structure of Catholic schools. Finally, the paper provides a series of dos and don’ts for school choice policymakers, organized under four principles. First, create broad‐​based demand. Second, create a wide‐​open playing field on which schools …
    By H. Lillian Omand
  • June 15, 2003
    Books
    Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
    Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
    … Palgrave, Macmillan. Press Release: Bad Neighbor Policy About the Author Ted Galen Carpenter is senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Dr. Carpenter served as Cato’s director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • January 1, 2003
    Books
    The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues
    The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues
    … Jr., have mobilized the hands‐​on knowledge of field experts to report on technological advances and develop theories about the policy implications. The Half‐​Life of Policy Rationales will be of interest to readers in public policy, technology, property rights …
    By Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein
  • December 17, 2002
    Policy Analysis
    No. 463
    Reforming the Federal Tax Policy Process
    … Those estimates are very important in policy discussions regarding the desirability of proposed tax changes. Therefore, it is crucial that policymakers receive the most accurate and complete assessment of the likely effects of tax proposals. Unfortunately, policymakers are currently provided …
    By David R. Burton
  • September 20, 2002
    Policy Analysis
    No. 454
    Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2002
    Against the backdrop of the worst state budget crunch in years, this report presents the findings of Cato Institute’s sixth biennial fiscal policy report card on the nation’s governors. The report card’s grading is based on 17 …
    By Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski
  • January 1, 2002
    Books
    Peace & Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic
    Peace & Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic
    … sense unique amid the obsolete bombast of aging cold warriors and do‐​gooders who have dominated what passes for foreign policy analysis in Washington for far too long. Carpenter’s analyses should be must reading for policymakers.”—Martin Sieff, Managing …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
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