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- Governance
- National Academy of Public Administration (Washington, DC) - independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the
performance of governance systems - the network of public institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private companies that
share in the implementation of public policy
- National Association of Counties (NACo) (Washington, DC) -
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- The Law
- American Society for International Law (ASIL) (Washington, DC) - peak membership organization in the United States dedicated
to advancing the study and use of international law. It is organised through special interest group, amongst other one focussing
on International Criminal Law
- Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF) (New York, NY) - legal rights organization on the East Coast which
serves Asian Americans and elieves that the law should be used as a tool to achieve social and economic justice for Asian
Americans and all Americans
- Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) (New York, NY) - non-profit legal and educational organization which uses litigation to
advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those
with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights
attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (Washington, DC) - group of conservatives and libertarians founded on the
principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution,
and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be
- First Amendment Center (FAC) - works with schools and communities throughout the United States to promote strong public
support for First Amendment principles and ideas, to educate Americans about the history, meaning and significance of the
First Amendment's religious-liberty clauses, and to help Americans find common ground across religious differences using the
guiding principles of religious freedom
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG) (New York, NY) - dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and
economic system, uniting lawyers, law students, and legal workers as an effective political and social force in the service of the
people
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- Political "Think Tanks"
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) (Washington, DC) - dedicated to preserving and strengthening
the foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign
policy and national defense - through scholarly research, open debate, and publications
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- Lobby Groups
- Accuracy in Media (AIM) - pursues fairness, balance and accuracy
- Acton Institute - for the study of religion and liberty
- Advocates for Self-Government (Cartersville, GA) - Libertarian organisation, believes in self-government in both personal and
economic matters, and that government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence
- Alexis de Tocqueville Institution - civil liberty, political equality and economic freedom and opportunity
- Alliance for Democracy (Waltham, MA) - new Populist movement setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our
government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations
- Alliance for the Separation of School & State
- Americans for
Better Immigration (ABI) - non-profit, non-partisan
organization which lobbies Congress for reductions in immigration
numbers
- American Council on Science and Health - adds reason and balance to public health issues
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Freedom Center - limited government, individual liberty, free enterprise, and low taxation
- American Policy Center - property rights and back-to-basics education
- America's Future - promoting free enterprise and constitutional government
- Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) (Washington DC) - the nation's oldest independent liberal political organization,
dedicated to individual liberty and building economic and social justice at home and abroad by taking early, principled stands on
a broad range of domestic, foreign, economic, military, social and environmental issues
- Armenian National Committee of America - the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots political organization
- Association of American Physicans & Surgeons
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation - private property rights, limited government under law and the market order
- Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) (Washington DC) - founded to help defeat right wing initiatives and to develop a
pro-active, national initiative strategy for progressives by building a new funding, research, and training infrastructure to support
progressive ballot measures
- Brassroots - no compromise pro-gun organization
- Campaign for America's Future - group of prominent Americans concerned about the country and the planet who challenge the
big money corporate agenda by encouraging Americans to speak up and discuss and debate a new vision
- Capital Research Center - reviving traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism
- Cato Institute - limited government, free markets
- Center for Advancement of Public Policy (Washington, DC) - independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which fosters
equitable, democratic, and humane management in government, corporations, and other organizations, seeks the elimination of
prejudice, sexism, and discrimination in the workplace and in society, and promotes democratic government through research,
investigation and education
- Center of the American Experiment
- Center for the Community Interest (CCI) (New York, NY) - national Conservative organization that serves as a voice for the
community on crime and quality-of-life issues
- Center for Independent Studies
- Center for Law and Justice - religious liberty, the unborn child and family rights
- Center for Public Policy
- Center for Responsive Politics (Washington DC) - non-partisan, non-profit research group that tracks money in politics, and its
effect on elections and public policy, with the aim of creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more
responsive government
- Center for Voting and Democracy (Takoma Park, MD) - non-profit organization dedicated to fair elections which conducts
research, analysis, education and advocacy to build understanding of and support for more democratic voting systems, and
which promotes full representation as an alternative to winner-take-all elections and instant runoff voting as an alternative to
plurality elections and traditional runoff elections
- Century Foundation (New York City) - insists that the central answer to many of the questions that trouble Americans can be
found in progressive ideas, and that Americans can balance the vagaries of the market and the capriciousness of politics by
learning enough, knowing enough, and agreeing on enough to get our nation back on track
- Christian Coalition of America (CC) (Washington, DC) - works to give Christians a voice in government
- Citizen Works (Washington, DC) - nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to strengthen citizen participation in power by
helping to share information, build coalitions, and institute improved mechanisms for banding activists together
- Citistates Group
- Citizens Against Government Waste
- Citizens for a Legitimate Government
- Citizens for a Sound Economy - limited government and free enterprise
- Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights - a voice for the small owner
- Claremont Institute
- Clearly Conservative, America's System of Principles
- Coalition for the
Future American Worker (CFAW) (Washington, DC) - umbrella
organization of professional trade groups, population/environment
organizations, and immigration reform groups that represent
the interests of American workers and students in the formulation
of immigration policy
- Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
- Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
- Common Cause (Washington DC) - citizen's lobbying organization which promotes open, honest and accountable government
and represents the unified voice of the people against corruption in government and big money special interests
- Common Dreams (Portland, ME) - national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to
promote progressive visions for America's future
- Commonwealth Foundation
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Concerned Women for America (CWA)
- Congressional Institute Inc.
- Demos - Network for Ideas and Action aimed at strengthening our democracy and creating more broadly shared prosperity
- Discovery Institute - representative government, free market and individual liberty
- Eagle Forum - pro-family
- Education Policy Institute
- Educational Excellence Network
- Empower America
- EPI - monitoring the global agenda to create world government and religion
- Evergreen Freedom Foundation
- Family Research Council - defending family, faith & freedom
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (Washington, DC) - combines the scholarly resources of its member scientists and
informed citizens with knowledge of practical politics to bring the scientific perspective to public policy, via advocacy, briefings
with policy makers and the press, public education and outreach, collaboration with civil rights, human rights, and arms control
groups, and grassroots organizing
- Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
- Fraser Institute
- Free Market Medicine
- Freedom.org - serving the people who are keeping the world free
- Freemarket.net
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) (Washington, DC) - public interest lobby founded members of the Religious
Society of Friends, which seeks to bring the concerns, experiences and testimonies of Friends (called Quakers) to bear on
policy decisions in the nation's capital
- Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) (Fairfax, VA) - aims to advance the libertarian philosophy by providing an uncompromising
moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government
- Galen Institute
- Gun Owners of America
- Heartland Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Hoover Institution - ideas defining a free society
- Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society
- idealist.org (Action Without Borders)
- Independence Institute - conservative, libertarian think tank
- Independent Institute - limited government, free markets, individual freedom and responsibility
- Independent Progressive Politics Network
- Initiative & Referendum Institute (IRI) (Washington DC) - researches and develops clear analysis of the initiative process and its
use, informs and educates the public about the process and its effects, and defends the initiative process and the right of
citizens to reform their government
- Institute for Contemporary Studies
- Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC
- Institute of Public Affairs
- Institute for Justice
- Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (US)
- Institute for Policy Innovation - individual liberty, limited government, and free markets
- James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy - In Praise of Commercial Culture
- Laissez Faire
- League of Women Voters (LWV) (Washington DC) - encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government,
works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy
- Liberty Caucus
- LoudCitizen Conservative Activism Central - "We will lead grassroots citizens to be bold and politically shrewd (yet honest and
forthright) conservatives who see Democrats for what they are and will stand up, in public, to the lies and deeds these same
Leftists regularly perpetrate"
- Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs (LOGA)
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research - economic choice and individual responsibility
- Militia Watchdog - research on Far Right extremism in the United States
- Milken Institute
- Milton & Rose Friedman Foundation - educational choice
- NationalIssues.com - conservative
- National Center for Policy Analysis
- National Voting Rights Institute
- New Politics
- NumbersUSA (Arlington,
VA) - aims to reduce the overall numerical levels of annual
legal and illegal immigration, and to carry out the immigration-reduction
recommendations from two national commissions of the 1990s
- Objectivist Center - self-reliance, integrity, rationality, productive effort
- OMB Watch (Washington DC) - formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and
Budget which oversees regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, and testimony by
agencies, and the enormous impact of OMB's actions on agency operations and the pursuit of social justice
- Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy - individual freedom and personal responsibility
- People for the American Way - established to help strengthen national commitment to the spirit of community
- Pioneer Institute
- Political Economy Research Center
- Political Research Associates (PRA) - monitors and analyzes those organizations, leaders, ideas, and activities of the US
political right
- Politix Group (Washington, DC) - independently run private organization whose purpose is to increase knowledge and
understanding of the political process with the purpose of inspiring early involvement and activism at the local, state and federal
levels of government
- Preamble Center (Washington DC) - seeks to be as daring as the drafters of the Constitution were in their day by crafting a
workable vision for democracy which helps move the world closer to a truly democratic vision of economic and social justice
- Progress Report - daily news on tax reform, politics, and the environment
- Progressive Majority (Washington DC) - "one-stop hub for all things progressive", including national news and its implications,
information on progressive leaders, "techno-politics", and alerts on the issues and challenges
- Progressive Policy Institute - defining the Third Way
- Public Campaign (Washington DC) - dedicated to sweeping campaign finance reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of
special interest money in America's elections and the influence of big contributors in American politics
- Public Citizen (Washington, DC) - national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to
represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts
- SpeakOut.com (Dickerson, MD) - organisation whose mission is to make activism as easy as possible by connecting people
who want to be heard with their political and business leaders, in order to promote important dialogue and create a more
informed, better organized public
- RAND Corporation - helping to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis
- Reason Foundation
- Republican National Coalition for Life
- Rock the Vote (Los Angeles, CA) - dedicated to protecting freedom of speech, educating young people and motivating young
people to vote and speak out
- Senior Coalition
- Smith Center
- Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc.
- Sovereignty International - individual freedom, private property ownership, free markets and national sovereignty
- State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) - an alliance of state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the
public interest, uncovering threats to public health and well-being and fighting to end them, and using the time-tested tools of
investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation
- Tech Central Station.com
- Thoreau Institute
- Tools for Change (San Francisco, CA) - helps organizations and individuals to develop and implement innovative policies and
practices that advance cooperation, creativity, trust, democracy and accountability
- Town Hall - conservative news and information
- Traditional Values Coalition
- U.S. Institute of Peace
- U.S. Term Limits - Citizen Legislators, Not Career Politicians
- Voter March
- Web White & Blue - non-partisan consortium of 17 of the largest Internet sites and news organizations who have come together
to highlight the potential of the Internet to expand citizen participation in our democracy
- William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) (San Antonio, TX) - research, public policy, advocacy, and economic empowerment of
the 35 million Latinos in the United States
- Women's Campaign Fund (WCF) (Washington DC) - dedicated to electing pro-choice women running for office at all levels,
contributing to over 2000 campaigns for local, state and federal office, to preserve access to reproductive choice
- World Policy Institute - imeasures needed to manage world market economy, a workable system of collective security, and an
active transnational civil society
- World Federalist Movement (WFM)- international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We
call for an end to the rule of force through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world institutions
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- American Reform Party
- Association of State Green Parties
- Committee for a Unified Independent Party
- Constitution Party (formerly the US Taxpayers Party)
- Democratic National Committee (Washington DC) - plans the Democratic Party's quadrennial presidential nominating
convention; promotes the election of Party candidates with both technical and financial support; and works with national, state,
and local party organizations, elected officials, candidates, and constituencies to respond to the needs and views of the
Democratic electorate and the nation
- Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) - the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate
of the Socialist International, the DSA shares a vision of a humane international social order based on equitable distribution of
resources, meaningful work, gender and racial equality, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, and non-oppressive
relationships
- Libertarian Party - individual liberty, personal responsibility, free-markets, non-intervention
- The New Party (Brooklyn, NY) - progressive political organization taking root around the U.S., building a multi-racial, lively and
creative political organization that can, over time, break the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over
our political process
- Republican National Committee (Washington DC) - The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists
and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge. The national structure of the
party starts with the Republican National Committee
- Social Democrats
- Socialist Party
- Young Communist League
- Workers Party
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