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Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Glossary

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan, is the largest U.S. state-based free market think tank in the United States.^[1]

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Organizations based in Michigan
Think tanks established in 1987

Acton Institute

The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an American research and educational institution, or think tank, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, (with an office in Rome) whose stated mission is "to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles". Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Acton Institute are libertarian organizations based in the United States and political and economic think tanks in the United States.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bradley Smith (law professor)

Bradley Alan Smith (born 1958) is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.

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Burton W. Folsom Jr.

Burton W. Folsom Jr. (born 1947, in Nebraska) is an American historian and author who held the Charles F. Kline chair in history and management at Hillsdale College from 2003 until his retirement in December 2016.

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Candid (organization)

Candid is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies.

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Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator is a charity assessment organization that evaluates hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations based in the United States, operating as a free 501(c)(3) organization.

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Clifford Taylor

Clifford Woodworth "Cliff" Taylor (born November 9, 1942) is a former American judge who served on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1997 through 2009.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Dykema Gossett

Dykema Gossett PLLC, is an American full-service law firm.

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F. W. Woolworth Company

The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.

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Fiscal year

A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.

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Foundation for Economic Education

The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative, libertarian economic think tank. Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Foundation for Economic Education are libertarian organizations based in the United States and political and economic think tanks in the United States.

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Free market

In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.

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Gary L. Wolfram

Gary Lee Wolfram is an American economist.

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Haworth (company)

Haworth Inc. is a privately held, family-owned office furniture manufacturer headquartered in Holland, Michigan, United States.

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Holland, Michigan

Holland is a city in Ottawa and Allegan Counties in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Internal Revenue Code

The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States.

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James Gattuso

James Leslie Gattuso (December 1, 1957 – July 23, 2020) was a senior research fellow for the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in regulatory issues and telecommunications policy.

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John B. Taylor

John Brian Taylor (born December 8, 1946) is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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John Engler

John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American politician, lawyer, businessman, and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003.

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Joseph Overton

Joseph Paul Overton (4 January 1960 – 30 June 2003) was an American political scientist who served as the senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

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Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County.

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Lawrence Reed

Lawrence "Larry" W. Reed (born September 29, 1953), also known as Larry Reed, is president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), where he has served as the Humphreys Family Senior Fellow since May 2019.

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Mark J. Perry

Mark Joseph Perry (born 1966) is an American economist, a previous professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at University of Michigan–Flint, and scholar at The American Enterprise Institute.

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Metro Times

The Detroit Metro Times is a progressive alternative weekly located in Detroit, Michigan.

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Michigan Court of Appeals

The Michigan Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court of the state of Michigan.

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Michigan Education Association

The Michigan Education Association (MEA), headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan, is a labor union representing more than 157,000 teachers, faculty and education support staff throughout the state.

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Michigan Supreme Court

The Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Midland Daily News

The Midland Daily News is a daily newspaper which serves Midland County, Michigan.

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Midland, Michigan

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Michigan, in the United States.

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Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.

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Mobile app

A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.

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National Center for Charitable Statistics

The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is a clearing house for information about the nonprofit sector of the U.S. economy.

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National Taxpayers Union

The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is a fiscally conservative taxpayer advocacy organization and taxpayers union in the United States, founded in 1977 by James Dale Davidson.

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Northwood University

Northwood University (NU) is a private university focused on business education with its main campus in Midland, Michigan.

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Overton window

The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.

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Paul McCracken (economist)

Paul Winston McCracken (December 29, 1915 – August 3, 2012) was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.

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Paul V. Gadola

Paul Victor Gadola (July 21, 1929 – December 26, 2014) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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Peter Boettke

Peter Joseph Boettke (born January 3, 1960) is an American economist of the Austrian School.

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Richard D. McLellan

Richard D. McLellan is a lawyer at McLellan Law Offices PLLC.

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Richard Ebeling

Richard M. Ebeling (born January 30, 1950) is an American libertarian author who was the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008.

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Richard Vedder

Richard K. Vedder (born November 5, 1940) is an American economist, historian, author, and columnist.

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Right-to-work law

In the context of labor law in the United States, the term right-to-work laws refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between employers and labor unions.

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Robert P. Murphy

Robert Patrick Murphy (born May 23, 1976) is an American economist.

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Robert Sirico

Robert Alan Sirico (born June 23, 1951) is an American Catholic priest and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Robert Teeter

Robert M. Teeter (February 5, 1939 – May 13, 2004) was an American Republican pollster and political campaign strategist.

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School choice

School choice is a term for education options that allow students and families to select alternatives to public schools.

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State Policy Network

The State Policy Network (SPN) is a nonprofit organization that serves as a network for conservative and libertarian think tanks focusing on state-level policy in the United States. Mackinac Center for Public Policy and state Policy Network are political and economic think tanks in the United States.

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The Detroit News

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

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The Herald-Palladium

The Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties.

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The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership. Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Heritage Foundation are political and economic think tanks in the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Think tank

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Urban Institute

The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that conducts economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions". Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Urban Institute are political and economic think tanks in the United States.

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VoteSpotter

VoteSpotter was a mobile app developed by Michigan-based free market think tank Mackinac Center for Public Policy to track votes by elected officials in the United States.

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501(c)(3) organization

A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. Mackinac Center for Public Policy and 501(c)(3) organization are 501(c)(3) organizations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy

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Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Glossary

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Organizations based in Michigan

Think tanks established in 1987

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