The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based conservative

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. According to the organization, the MacIver Institute promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government.MacIver Institut
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organizational web page, accessed March 11, 2011. It is a member of the

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Personnel and funding

One of the MacIver Institute's primary donors is the

Bradley Foundation The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, commonly known as the Bradley Foundation, is an American charitable foundation based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that has been one of the most influential funders of the conservative movement. The foundation ...

. As of November 2014, the Bradley Foundation had given the MacIver Institute $890,000 since the MacIver Institute's 2008 launch.

Activities

In 2011, the MacIver Institute and

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purchased more than $500,000 worth of television ads in Wisconsin supporting Scott Walker's budget proposals. In 2014, a Wisconsin appeals court sided with the MacIver Institute, ruling that Democratic State Senator

Jon Erpenbach Jon B. Erpenbach (born January 28, 1961) is an American politician currently serving as chairman of the Wisconsin Parole Commission in the administration of Governor Tony Evers. He previously served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrati ...

must turn over 2,600 emails sent to him during the political battle over Scott Walker's

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