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American Federalism Today
American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance  by Michael J. Boskin (ed.)
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
By David Davenport, Jeffrey Sikkenga

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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
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A Nation At Risk +40

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Americans Now Live Farther From Their Employers
By Steven J. Davis, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Mert Akan, Tom Bowen, Shelby Buckman, Luke Pardue, Liz Wilke

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How Election Rules Affect Who Wins
By Justin Grimmer, Eitan Hersh

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By Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Chicheng Ma, Yuchen Xu

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Economics Working Papers
2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs

Applications are now open for the 2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs with opportunities for early-career scholars. For more information on the Hoover Fellows program and National Fellows program, click the links below.

Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024

To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.

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Podcasts
What Polling Says About Trump, Harris And An Election “Doom Loop”

What matters most to independent voters, the odds of one or both chambers of Congress flipping, plus whether Pennsylvania is the “new Florida” as ground zero for deciding presidential outcomes.

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Good Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery

By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.

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Videos
Axis Of Aggressors: H.R. McMaster On Defending America’s Interests

An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.

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What Do Californians Owe The Homeless?

With its number of homeless people nearly doubling over the last year, the city of Norwalk, California, enacted a forty-five-day moratorium on the construction of homeless shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. When this forty-five-day moratorium expired last week, the city extended it by ten months despite legal threats from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta.

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Essays
The State of American Citizenship 2023

We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.

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Essays
Issues In Negotiations: Looking Toward An End To The War In Ukraine

America’s current policy goal with the Russian war on Ukraine might be articulated as helping to achieve the best possible position for Ukraine to end the fighting through a settlement. This essay considers the difficult and complicated issues that would be involved in such negotiations. Importantly, to be successful, diplomacy would have to achieve both an end to the war and the creation of a stable peace.

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Core Institutional Priorities
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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Is Permanent Peace For Israel Even Possible?
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Can Israel Win?
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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Islamism And Immigration In Germany And The European Context
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Western Democracies Face Not Only Hamas The Physical Organization But Also Hamas The Idea, Part Of A Broader Islamist Infrastructure
25th Anniversary of Hamas in Gaza
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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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A California Financial Columnist Asks Questions About Our Housing Mess. We Have Answers.
Mountain View/Sunnyvale, California
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California’s Relevance in 2024: Straw-Man Arguments, Party Rebuilds
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CF21 | Ed Glaeser

Edward Glaeser On Zoning, Land Use Regulation, And Urban Economics

Jon Hartley and Edward Glaeser discuss urban economics, zoning, land use, industrial policy, the recent crime rebound, and human capital’s role in growth.

Free Speech Unmuted

I Know It When I See It: Free Speech And Obscenity Laws

Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer discuss the various rules the Court applies in obscenity cases and the forthcoming Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton decision. 

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Venezuela: Stolen Election And The Struggle For Liberty

H.R. McMaster and Leopoldo López discuss ongoing protests in Venezuela, the Maduro regime’s tactics of repression, and prospects for the restoration of the Venezuelan constitution and the end of Maduro’s despotic rule.

OK Boomers

OK Boomers: Victor Davis Hanson, Pagers, Zelenskyy, And The Fellows “Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation”

Hot-wiring pagers and walkie-talkies to take out Hezbollah operatives: Was Israel’s tactic—like something from an Ian Fleming novel—a justifiable act of national security or a violation of international law?

Library & Archives
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A World-Class Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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Exhibitions | Now On View

The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.

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Research Services

Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.

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The Collections

Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.

Digital First Initiative

Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.

Engagement & Outreach

Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.

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This week marks one year since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, triggering the war in Gaza and the subsequent fighting in southern Lebanon. The greatest surprise a year later

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