Buckeye Institute

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The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions
501(c)(3)
Leadership: Dave Hansen
Political party Nonpartisan
Website The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions
Transparency Focus
Center for Transparent and Accountable Government


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The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions (BI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit free-market think tank based in Columbus, Ohio. They are non-partisan and concerned, as they say, with policy, not politics.

The Institute is devoted to individual liberty, economic freedom, personal responsibility and limited government in Ohio.

[edit] Core Values

The Buckeye Institute is committed to:

  • Policy Analysis
  • Solutions
  • Individuals
  • Long-term Change
  • Cooperation
  • Empirical Research
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Freedom

[edit] Transparency

The Buckeye institute is interested in transparency in government and stopping wasteful government spending. They recently released a Podcast with Americans for Prosperity discussing transparency and fiscal restraint.

The institute recently launched the Center for Transparent and Accountable Government, headed by former statehouse reporter Mike Maurer. The institute also provides a sunshine wiki that allows activists to post information online about access issues in Ohio government.[1]

[edit] Policy centers

[edit] Transparent and accountable government

League of Transparency Advocates
The Center for Transparent and Accountable Government "is dedicated to the central tenet that all sound policy must be based upon an accurate and honest understanding of the facts."

Recently the center has added the Ohio State Employee Payroll Database. It provides a searchable database of base pay rates for all state of Ohio employees.

[edit] Constitutional Law

BI's 1851 Center for Constitutional Law "will defend and expand the vision of Ohioans to commit the growth and prosperity of their state to the power of individual liberty, economic freedom and limited government." Clients whose cases the Center takes up are represented for free.

[edit] Economic freedom

The Center for Economic Freedom works to increase economic freedom in Ohio, including personal choice, voluntary exchange, and free markets. They are currently focused on reduced taxes for all Ohioans, reduced regulations on economic activity, and limiting the size of government.

[edit] Liberty in learning

The Center for Liberty in Learning strives to "improve the quality of education in Ohio through increased choice, efficiency, and competition." Current objectives include a statewide adoption of a universal K-12 education voucher, taking a child-centered policy for school funding, and educating citizens on teacher unions and collective bargaining.

[edit] Public integrity

The Center for Public Integrity has the mission of promoting "democracy and liberty in Ohio by directly holding the powerful in government accountable for their actions." They aim to do this by:

  • Providing the state with investigative reporting on government
  • Investing in promising stories at their earliest stages to give them a chance to spread in the news marketplace
  • Producing major investigative projects for television, radio, print and the Web
  • Promoting the best investigations - through tradition and new media means - to maximize their impact with policy makers, opinion leaders and the public

[edit] Independent workforce

The Center for an Independent Workforce was created to protect "the liberties of individual workers and reform the way Ohio government handles labor relations." They are working to end compulsory unionization in Ohio and eliminate public employee collective bargaining.

[edit] Projects

The Buckeye Institute released a report in May of 2009 entitled The Economic Impact of Federal Spending on State Economic Performance: An Ohio Perspective which was assembled by the econometrics firm Arduin, Laffer, and Moore. In conjunction with the study, the Institute's podcast service interviewed Donna Arduin, one of the econometrics experts who engaged in the report.

[edit] Buckeye Institute In The News

In regards to their report on the economic impact of federal spending, Congressman John Boehner (R-OH) cited the study referencing opposition to the federal stimulus plan. Their study was also cited in The Middletown Journal and by Columbus Business First

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ FOI FYI Blog, Ohio institute launches government transparency center, Aug. 12, 2008
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