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About the Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, whose predecessor was founded in 1918 by Robert Brookings, was probably the first public policy institute in the USA. Currently a right-wing, neoliberal (http://www.SourceWatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Neoliberal ), anti-regulation organisation, it has politcally veered between the centre and right during its lifetime.

Initially centrist, the Institution took its first step rightwards during the depression, in response to the New Deal. In the 1960s, it was linked to the conservative wing of the Democratic Party, backing Keysian economics. From the mid-70s it cemented a close relationship with the Republican party. Since the 1990s it has taken steps further towards the right in parallel with the increasing influence of right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.

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Cooperation & Affiliation

* American Enterprise Institute, US (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; joint conferences, publications, research)
* Wharton Business School, US (Brookings-Wharton Papers on Economic Activity; joint research, conferences, publications)


Related Articles

* Brookings Institution Project on Homeland Security


References

* Sam Husseini, Brookings - The Establishment's Think Tank (http://www.fair.org/extra/9811/brookings.html ), Extra!, FAIR, November/December 1998