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Michael J. New
Adjunct Scholar
Michael New received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama. He has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT data center and a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research interests include limitations on government, tax revolts, welfare reform and campaign finance reform.
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Cato Studies
"Dispelling the Myths: The Truth about TABOR and Referendum C," by Michael New and Stephen Slivinski, Briefing Paper no. 95, October 24, 2005.
"Proposition 13 and State Budget Limitations: Past Successes and Future Options," Briefing Paper no. 83, June 19, 2003.
"Campaign Finance Regulation: Lessons from Washington State," Briefing Paper no. 73, September 5, 2002.
"Welfare Reform That Works: Explaining the Welfare Caseload Decline, 1996-2000," Policy Analysis no. 435, May 7, 2002.
"Limiting Government through Direct Democracy: The Case of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations," Policy Analysis no. 420, December 13, 2001.
Opinion and Commentary
"The Return of Tabor," Washington Times, July 14, 2010
"Bad Proposition," National Review (Online), May 19, 2009
"Bailing out the States," Washington Times, January 14, 2009
"The Right Way to Bail out California," San Jose Mercury News, January 3, 2009
"TABOR Is Under Threat — Again!," National Review (Online), November 3, 2008
Events
"Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't," August 14, 2007 [Book Forum]
Multimedia
Constraining State Spending with TABOR (July 21, 2010) [Daily Podcast, 11:50]
Politics of State Spending Caps (September 7, 2007) [Daily Podcast, 04:58]
State Spending Limits (August 24, 2007) [Daily Podcast, 05:41]
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