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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?
The Democratic candidate owes America some answers
Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Summer 2008 Meeting
In an overview of the Hoover Institution at this year’s Board of Overseers summer meeting, John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director, spoke of Hoover’s accomplishments and plans for growth.
Honesty for Hire
A few countries have found a way to stop graft and foster political stability: hire foreigners to collect their revenue. By Kris James Mitchener and Noel Maurer.
The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"
Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.
Exploring Contemporary Chinese History: Hoover Holds Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China
The fifth annual Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China, entitled “Crossing the 1949 Divide: The Hoover Archives and Contemporary Chinese History,” was held during July 31 and August 4, 2017. Co-organized and cosponsored with the Seminar of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, this year the workshop featured seven speakers from the United States, Germany, Austria, and Taiwan who explored Hoover’s unique modern China collections and evaluated how these historical treasures help reshape our understanding of contemporary China and post-1949 Taiwan. Workshop attendees presented their research to over three hundred audience from the Hoover/Stanford community as well as to researchers and mass media in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Bright Side of British Colonialism
Teaching The Federalist
What happens when South Korean students take a close look at American democracy. By Peter Berkowitz.
DIRE STRAITS: Whither Japan?
Following World War II, Japan reinvented itself both politically, as it adopted the institutions of democratic government, and economically, as it became a dominant producer and exporter of consumer goods. These reforms were so successful that, ten years ago, experts were predicting that Japan would overtake the United States as an economic superpower. Instead, Japan experienced a decade of recession and economic stagnation that continues still. What happened? Is this a sign of serious structural problems in Japan's political and economic institutions? In other words, is it time for Japan to reinvent itself once again? If so, how should the United States alter its relationship with a new Japan?
What Would Alexander Hamilton Do?
What Would Hamilton Do?
Revisiting the founding father to whom a national debt, properly funded, represented “a national blessing.” By Michael W. McConnell.
Keynes a la Mode
Why Do Nations Fail?
The Court that Couldn't Say "Stop!"
At a crucial moment, the Roberts court blinked, setting back both the Constitution and any dreams of limited federal power. By John Yoo.
Franklin Delano Obama
Honor in the Task
How can we shore up the American work ethic? By honoring good work. By Russell Muirhead.
The Unpredictability Of Deregulation: The Case Of Airlines
Some unlikely policy lessons from Jimmy Carter and Teddy Kennedy.
Native American Heritage: It’s Not What You Think
The ideas defining a free Native American society.
What Pinochet Did for Chile
The late strongman ruled harshly but left behind the most successful country in Latin America. By Robert A. Packenham and William Ratliff.
Labour’s Labor Problem
Why Tony Blair’s Labour Party has kept the labor movement at arm’s length. By Gerald A. Dorfman.
The Revolutionary Republic
In 1911, China rejected feudalism to enter the modern era. A new Hoover exhibit on a century of change. By Hsiao-ting Lin and Lisa Nguyen.