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Hoover scholars produce an impressive body of books, provocative essays, and in-depth articles that explore ideas with the potential to transform society. But unless those ideas are widespread, the opportunity to have an impact is lost. Consequently, the Institution disseminates its products through varied formats and means.
Updated quarterly, seeks to inform the American foreign policy community about current trends in China's leadership politics and in its foreign and domestic policies.
June 28, 2010
China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012—Part 3: Military Leaders
The PRC’s civilian-military relationship has always been a central concern among China watchers. Although the political leadership’s control over the military has not been challenged in the last two decades, several factors—a possibly ineffective civilian collective leadership, growing social tensions and public protests, and China’s great power aspirations amid a rapidly changing global environment—may all enhance the military’s influence and power in the years to come. The upcoming political succession in 2012 is expected to involve a large-scale turnover in both the civilian and military leadership. Based on in-depth analysis of the PRC’s 57 currently highest-ranking military officers, this essay aims to address the following important questions: Who are the most likely candidates to become the military’s top leadership at the 18th Party Congress? What are the group characteristics of these rising stars in the Chinese military? What can an analysis of the professional backgrounds and political networks of China’s top officers reveal about the new dynamics between civilian and military elites and the possible challenges that lie ahead?
June 28, 2010
The 18th Central Committee Politburo: A Quixotic, Foolhardy, Rashly Speculative, but Nonetheless Ruthlessly Reasoned Projection
The 18th Party Congress, expected to convene in the fall of 2012, will see a turnover of leadership generations on a scale equaling that at the 16th Party Congress in 2002. Predicting changes in China’s top leadership has always been notoriously hazardous to the reputations of those who undertake it. Nevertheless, incremental institutionalization of leadership processes over the past two decades may offer a surer foundation for such predictions. This article projects what the 18th Central Committee leadership may look like based on the logic of institutionalization.
June 28, 2010
Institutional Reforms in Xian’an
Like many agricultural areas of the interior, Xian’an district in Hubei Province faced enormous problems from growing numbers of bureaucratic offices, increasing numbers of cadres, escalating debt, and financial malfeasance. Beginning in 2000, a new Party secretary, Song Yaping, began drastic measures to reduce the size of the cadre force and restructure local government. With strong political backing and a forceful personality, Song appears to have been largely successful, though his reforms remain controversial. The bigger question is whether the model adopted in Xian’an can be spread to other areas, and the answer to that appears to be negative.
Hoover's task forces and working groups produce contemporary material on subjects ranging from global economic issues to national security and from energy policy to education.
March 15, 2010
How Should We Regulate Derivatives’ Markets?
Focus on rewriting rules, supporting market efficiencies
March 15, 2010
Property Rights and African Poverty
Good and bad news about the continent’s economic future
Hoover's award-winning quarterly presents an overview of the research by Hoover scholars.
July 2, 2010
Debt Roulette
The Obama budget represents the biggest gamble in our entire fiscal history. By Michael J. Boskin.
July 2, 2010
You’re Hired! Eventually . . .
A rising economy is the only thing that will help the long-term jobless. By Gary S. Becker.
This bimonthly publication provides new and serious thinking on matters of public policy.
August 1, 2010
The Goldstone Report and International Law
The march of politics under the banner of law
This quarterly journal presents the facts as best they can be determined on issues related to K-12 education reform in the United States.
Hoover's press department provides general publication and editorial service to the Institution and also publishes and markets books under the Hoover Press imprint.
An online resource containing books published by the Hoover Press on a variety of topics. Books are available in PDF format.
October 31, 2010
Inside America's Health Care: Access to Excellence
This forthcoming book examines health care reform in the United States and plans for nationalized health coverage. With health care reform a targeted priority for the Obama administration, large problems loom. Government expenditures for health care are unsustainable and increasing, and health insurance is unaffordable for millions of people. Furthermore, according to the severely flawed “World Health Report of 2000,” the American health care system is a failure and inferior to what is available in the rest of the developed world. Atlas points out why the vast majority of Americans are positive about their own medical care and present clear alternatives to a government take-over of America’s health care.
Essays and short articles, published by the Hoover Institution, that present Hoover fellows' research on contemporary policy issues and summaries of the collections in the Hoover Library and Archives.