Ideas & Research

Richmond Violence Free Zone Initiative

April 14, 2010

By: Byron Johnson and William Wubbenhorst, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

This case study provides preliminary results of the Violence Free School Zone, a program designed to reduce youth violence, and its implementation at George Wythe High School in Richmond, Virginia.

A Heart and Mind for the Poor

March 23, 2010

By: Jane Silloway Smith, The Maxim Institute

The Maxim Institute discusses how learning from the past can help in better understanding what effective foreign aid looks like for the future.

Conservatives and Cities

March 9, 2010

By Howard Husock

What does effective urban policy look like? Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute provides examples of how conservative policies have allowed areas formerly tarnished with crime and poverty to prosper, including the 1996 welfare reform, 1990s Compstat policing in New York City, and public housing reform in Atlanta.

Mutual Obligation and the American Social Contract

January 29, 2010

By Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.

Order in the Courts

November 17, 2009

A Policy Report from the Courts and Sentencing Working Group, Centre for Social Justice (UK)

2009 Prosperity Index

October 27, 2009

The Legatum Institute

Parents and Teen Sex

October 21, 2009

By Peter Jon Mitchell, Research Analyst, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

U.S. Marriage Index

October 2, 2009

The Institute for American Values and the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting (NCAAMP)

Broken Boughs: The Role of Effective Family Interventions

October 1, 2009

By Daniel Lees and Alex Penk, Maxim Institute (New Zealand)

Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare That Works

September 16, 2009

A Policy Report by the Centre for Social Justice Economic Dependency Working Group (UK)

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