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Center for Representative Government

Mission

Taking its inspiration from James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government is dedicated to promoting limited, representative government. Today, government offers many new threats to individual freedom and the virtues needed for its preservation. Unfortunately, career politicians, an ever-expanding government and massive regulatory constraints dominate American political life. The Center and its scholars are working through books, conferences, forums, op-eds, speeches, congressional testimony, and TV and radio appearances to bring the ideals of individual liberty, civil society, limited government and citizen legislators back to the forefront of American political life.

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Publications from the Center for Representative Government

Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government The Fallacy Of Campaign Finance Reform The Marketplace Of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
Buck Wild: How
Republicans Broke the
Bank and Became the
Party of Big Government,
by Stephen Slivinski 		The Fallacy Of Campaign
Finance Reform
by John Samples 		The Marketplace Of Democracy:
Electoral Competition and
American Politics
edited by Michael P. McDonald
and John Samples 		How Progressives
Rewrote the Constitution
by Richard A. Epstein