Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution ( Hoover Institution one War, Revolution, and Peace ) is a library and a Think tank (since 1946) American near to the Republican party. Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, it is with the Université of Stanford (California).

History

In 1919, Herbert Hoover, teaching with the University of Stanford and future republican president of the the United States, created on the campus of Stanford a library devoted to the causes and consequences of the First World War and revolution Bolshevik of 1917.

Herbert Hoover equipped his library with 50.000 dollars and the Fondation Rockefeller financed its operation. The equipment served to finance the purchase of data bases of more than one million and half of documents concerning 1914-1918 and the come to power as the Communists in Russia. In 1941 a tower was born to lodge the Institution.

From 1946, Hoover Institution engages researchers to develop his funds. In 1957, the library is transformed into research center and takes to the name of Hoover Institution one War, Revolution and Peace (Hoover Institute on the war, the revolution and peace).

In 1960 and until 1994, W. Glenn Campbell, former director of the American Enterprise Institute takes the head of the institution to defend " validity of the system américain" and to fight on the ground of the ideas against the communist ideology. It collected thereafter the files of Friedrich von Hayek like those of the Société of the Mount-Pilgrim.

The Institution ensures a long time a formation of the elites of the Republican party and publishes many studies which will inspire the republican policies. Since 2001, the Institution publishes Policy Review , a semi-monthly of general policy. It preserves a great influence in the mediums Libertariens and Néoconservateurs.

Several of its current members are related to the administration Bush. George W. Bush visited besides the Hoover Institution in April 2006. 400 demonstrators then tried to block the access of them to denounce the presence of a think tank in a place of education.

Its current budget is of 25 million dollars approximately. Its current president is John Raisian.

Resources

The institution receives most of its resources by gifts of foundations, among which:
  • Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
  • ARCO Foundation
  • Dean Witter Foundation
  • Exxon Educational Foundation
    • Charitable
  • J.P. Morgan Trust
  • Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
  • Olin Foundation
  • Transamerica Foundation

Members

Honorary members

Senior fellows

  • Richard V. Allen
  • Timothy Garton Ash, historian and essay writer.
  • Robert Conquest, historian.
  • Niall Ferguson, historian.
  • Morris P. Fiorina, political economist.
  • Ken Jowitt, historian and essay writer.
  • Peter Paret, historian.
  • William J. Perry, former minister for defense.
  • Condoleezza Rice, academic and policy.
  • Thomas Sowell, economist and essay writer.
  • John B. Taylor
  • Milton Friedman, economist.

Members visitors

External bonds

  • Site of the Institute Hoover
  • missions of the Institute Hoover

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