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Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Established1987 (1987)
Type501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
38-2701547
HeadquartersMidland, Michigan, U.S.
President
Joseph G. Lehman
Chairman
Rodney M. Lockwood Jr.[1]
BudgetRevenue: ~$11,500,000
Expenses: ~$11,500,000
(FYE December 2022)[2]
Websitemackinac.org

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy (/ˈmækɪnɔː/) is a think tank headquartered in Midland, Michigan.[3][4][5][6] Through research and programs, the Mackinac Center supports lower taxes, reduced regulatory authority for state agencies, right-to-work laws, school choice, and property rights.[7][6] It has been variously described as free market,[8][9] conservative,[10][11] fiscally conservative,[12][13] and nonpartisan.[14] It prefers the description "free market" over "conservative" because it does not emphasize social issues.[10][6]

Joseph Overton (1960–2003), a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center, stated the political strategy that later became known as the Overton window. Overton said that politically unpopular, unacceptable policies must be changed into politically acceptable policies before they can be enacted into law.[15][16]

The Mackinac Center is said to be the largest state-based free market think tank.[17][18] It was ranked among the top 5 percent of think tanks in the United States by the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report.[19][20] The Center sponsors MichiganVotes.org, an online legislative voting record database which provides a non-partisan summary of every bill and vote in the Michigan legislature.[21]

  1. ^ "Lockwood Named New Chairman of Mackinac Center Board of Directors". Mackinac Center.
  2. ^ Roberts, Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Brandon (May 9, 2013). "Mackinac Center - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ King, Jon (July 18, 2024). "Mackinac Center asks for name to be pulled from Project 2025". Michigan Advance. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  4. ^ "Mackinac Center for Public Policy". State Policy Network. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  5. ^ "Think Tanks". Northwood University McNair Center for the Advancement of Free-Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Is the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Liberal? Libertarian? Conservative?". Mackinac Center. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  7. ^ "After firestorm, Michigan right-to-work law has had little spark". Detroit Free Press. September 1, 2013. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  8. ^ Heinlein, Gary; Livengood, Chad (March 4, 2015). "Worker Says Ending Film Incentives Will Cost Mich. Jobs". The Detroit News. Retrieved March 6, 2015. But House Republicans, backed by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and free-market Mackinac Center for Public Policy...
  9. ^ Glenza, Jessica; Adolphe, Juweek (January 23, 2019). "Free-market groups and the tobacco industry – full database". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved December 11, 2024. More than 100 free-market thinktanks have argued against tobacco control policies or accepted donations from the tobacco industry, research by the Guardian shows
  10. ^ a b DeParle, Jason (November 17, 2006). "Right-of-Center Guru Goes Wide With the Gospel of Small Government". The New York Times. the largest of the right's state-level policy institutes.... When the Mackinac Center was founded in 1987, there were just three other conservative state-level policy institutes.
  11. ^ Oosting, Jonathan (March 30, 2014). "How Michigan's revenue sharing 'raid' cost communities billions for local services". mlive. Retrieved December 28, 2024. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank that advocates for smaller government...
  12. ^ Oosting, Jonathan (April 13, 2015). "Working poor may see modest tax break under Michigan roads Proposal 1". mlive. Retrieved December 26, 2024. the fiscally-conservative Mackinac Center
  13. ^ Svoboda, Sandra (November 17, 2010). "Re-Detroit". Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved December 26, 2024. the fiscally conservative Mackinac Center for Public Policy
  14. ^ Pierre, Robert E. (July 28, 2002). "Detroit Still Skeptical About School Vouchers And Who Really Profits". The Washington Post.
  15. ^ "A Brief Explanation of the Overton Window". Mackinac Center. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  16. ^ Astor, Maggie (February 26, 2019). "How the Politically Unthinkable Can Become Mainstream". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  17. ^ "Right-of-Center Guru Goes Wide With the Gospel of Small Government". The New York Times. November 17, 2006.
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference bigmac was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Beacom, Ron (March 26, 2019). "Mackinac Center for Public Policy continues to prosper in Midland". Midland Daily News. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  20. ^ McGann, James (January 1, 2019). "2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". TTCSP Global Go to Think Tank Index Reports (16).
  21. ^ STAFF, HP. "Legislative Roll Call". The Herald Palladium. Retrieved October 23, 2019.

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