Books published by AEI Press

This book analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the referendum and the initiative and how they fit the requirements of democratic ideals.

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with the Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.

What is the relationship between democratic government and a capitalist economic system?

The authors weigh the functions of this industry, its practices and policies, and the changing nature of the consumer finance marketplace to determine whether limiting such lending would serve the public interest.

This monograph assesses how the adverse health implications associated with regulatory costs can affect mortality risk by considering a broad group of federal regulations.

This book analyzes the elections that were widely expected to bring the left to power in France. Instead they gave the center-right coalition a slim lead in the popular vote and a decisive majority in the National Assembly.

This study examines how hospitals have evolved since 1975.

While many Americans live in conditions of prosperity, a second nationwhere illegitimacy, child and drug abuse, violence, criminality, and other social ills proliferateis growing within.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The author analyzes the change in male earnings inequality since the mid-1970s to see how much is attributable to changes in labor market opportunities

This pioneering study uses the latest available data to examine the internationalization of regulation and regulatory reform.

This book argues that current policy, even if invigorated by more aggressive military efforts, will not bring the United States victory over Saddam and his regime.

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

This book is a collection of essays on proposals to provide tax incentives to stimulate the growth of high-technology firms.

This book provides a point of view on the debate about health care delivery in the U.S., particularly in light of the debate surrounding the Patient Protection Act.

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade.

The author has been a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the US Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime, the Commission on Presidential Scholars, and the White House Commission on Crime. This study presents his analysis of character.

This book is designed to help bring about the desired transition to liberal democracy in South Africa, particularly as the deliberations about a permanent constitution get under way.

This volume considers whether the first major overhaul of U.S. communications policy in more than sixty years is accomplishing its purposes.

A college education has been the key to higher real wages and living standards. But as college enrollment has increased, so has the difficulty in paying for higher education.

This book examines capitalism and socialism and how religion and theology are incorporated into their definitions.

This monograph examines the political economy of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global centuries.

This book examines statistics on illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997.

The current approach toward U.S. securities regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission should be revamped by implementing a regime of competitive federalism.