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Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.[2][3][4] While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations.[5][6][7] It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.[3][2][5][8][9]

This article is about the American public policy think tank. For its research library, see Hoover Institution Library and Archives.

Abbreviation

Hoover

June 1919 (1919-06)

Public policy research in economics, history, and national security.

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

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Hoover War Collection

The institution began in 1919 as a library founded by Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover prior to his presidency in order to house his archives gathered during the Great War.[10] The well-known Hoover Tower was built to house the archives, then known as the Hoover War Collection (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives), and contained material related to World War I, World War II, and other global events. The collection was renamed and transformed into a research institution ("think tank") during the mid-20th century. Its mission, as described by Herbert Hoover in 1959, is "to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life."[11]


It has staffed numerous jobs in Washington for Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.[12] It has provided work for people who previously had important government jobs. Notable Hoover fellows and alumni include Nobel Prize laureates Henry Kissinger, Milton Friedman, and Gary Becker; economist Thomas Sowell; scholars Niall Ferguson and Richard Epstein; former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich; and former Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis. In 2020, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the institution's director. It divides its fellows into separate research teams to work on various subjects, including Economic Policy, History, Education, and Law.[13] It publishes research by its own university press, the Hoover Institution Press.[14]


In 2021, Hoover was ranked as the 10th most influential think tank in the world by Academic Influence.[15] It was ranked 22nd on the "Top Think Tanks in United States" and 1st on the "Top Think Tanks to Look Out For" lists of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program that same year.[16]

philosopher and Nobel laureate in economics[25] (deceased)

Friedrich Hayek

former President of the United States[25] (deceased)

Ronald Reagan

Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate in literature[25] (deceased)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[46] (deceased)

Margaret Thatcher

List of Stanford University Centers and Institutes

Duignan, Peter. "The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Part I. Origin and Growth." Library History 17.1 (2001): 3-20.

Dwyer, Joseph D., ed. Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe: A Survey of Holdings at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Hoover Press, 1980) .

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Kiester, Sally Valente. "New Influence for Stanford's Hoover Institution." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 13.7 (1981): 46-50. , on role in Reagan administration

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Palm, Charles G., and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Press, 1980) .

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Paul, Gary Norman. "The Development of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Library, 1919–1944". PhD dissertation U. of California, Berkeley. Dissertation Abstracts International 1974 35(3): 1682–1683a, 274 pp.

Reed, Dale, and Michael Jakobson. "Trotsky Papers at the Hoover Institution: One Chapter of an Archival Mystery Story." American Historical Review 92.2 (1987): 363-375.

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Scott, Erik R. Defining Moments: The First One Hundred Years of the Hoover Institution (2019)

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Official website

the Hoover Institution Library and Archives official website

hoover.org/hila

the Hoover Institution Press's official website

hooverpress.org

a Hoover Institution online journal

definingideas.org

(provided by RePEc)

EDIRC listing

at Curlie

Hoover Institution

the Hoover Institution's blog of research and opinion on current policy matters

advancingafreesociety.org

at YouTube

Video of Hoover Institution events and Uncommon Knowledge

at FORA.tv

Video of Hoover Institution events

hosted at the Internet Archive

Hoover Institution FBI files