{{Short description|Free market think tank}} {{Infobox organization | name = Indiana Policy Review Foundation | logo = File:Logo Indiana Policy Review Foundation.png | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name = T. Craig Ladwig | established = 1989 | founder = Charles S. Quilhot and Byron S. Lamm | origins = | region_served = [[Indiana]] | focus = Expanding [[free market|free-market]] principles in Indiana | subsidiaries = | revenue = $95,865<ref name="Ratings">{{cite web | url=http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/351/351758480/351758480_201612_990.pdf | title=Indiana Policy Review Foundation | date=26 June 2017 | website=Foundation Center | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}</ref> | revenue_year = 2016 | expenses = $89,189<ref name="Ratings" /> | expenses_year = 2016 | endowment = | num_volunteers = | owner = | location = [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], U.S. | slogan = | website = {{URL|http://www.inpolicy.org}} | type = Nonprofit [[501(c) organization#501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] | tax_id = | footnotes = }}
The '''Indiana Policy Review Foundation''' '''(IPR)''' is an Indiana [[libertarian|fusion conservative and libertarian]], [[free market]] [[think tank]]. According to its web site, the IPR's mission is to "marshal the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues at the state and municipal level." The IPR publishes the ''Indiana Policy Review''. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, it is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
IPR is a member of the [[State Policy Network]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spn.org/directory/organizations.asp |title=Directory SPN Members |publisher=[[State Policy Network]] |access-date=March 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318011132/http://www.spn.org/directory/organizations.asp |archivedate=March 18, 2015 }}</ref> an umbrella organization of conservative and libertarian think tanks operating at the state level.
== History == IPR was co-founded by its board chairman, Charles S. Quilhot, editor, T. Craig Ladwig, Stephen E. Williams and Byron S. Lamm, in 1989.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/35-1758480 | title=Indiana Policy Review Foundation, Inc. | last= | first= | date= | website=GuideStar | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}</ref> U.S. vice president and former Indiana governor [[Mike Pence]] was its president from 1991 to 1994,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/arena/bio/rep_mike_pence.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625173304/http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/rep_mike_pence.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 25, 2010 | title=Arena Profile: Rep. Mike Pence | last= | first= | date= | website=Politico | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/mike-pence-fast-facts | title=Mike Pence Fast Facts | last= | first= | date=8 May 2018 | website=CNN | access-date=27 June 2018 }}</ref>
In a speech to [[The Heritage Foundation]] in 2008, then Representative [[Mike Pence]] said, "I was part of what we called the seed corn Heritage Foundation was spreading around the country in the state think tank movement. We actually called our little foundation in Indiana the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, very much as a homage to ''[[Policy Review]]'' magazine of Heritage, and we modeled on the state level what Heritage had done before."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW3CeAuZ5Y | title=Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) Discusses Conservative Principles | last= | first= | date=17 November 2008 | website=YouTube | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}</ref>
== Policy positions == The institute supports policy positions rooted in individual liberty, personal responsibility, [[property rights (economics)|private property rights]], [[free-market]] principles, and [[limited government]]. It explicitly does not address social issues often identified with modern conservatism.
== Organization and activities == The Indiana Policy Review Foundation publishes the ''Indiana Policy Review'', a quarterly journal to promote IPR's mission "to marshal the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues at the state and municipal levels."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pageturnpro.com/Indiana-Policy-Review-Foundation/74057-Fall-2016/default.html#page/1 | title=Decentralizing Education: Student-Based Budgeting | last= | first= | date=2016 | website=Indiana Policy Review | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}</ref>
IPR's staff and scholars supply columns to newspapers throughout the state. Staff and scholars also conduct research on a range of public policy issues and offer analysis and proposals through reports and publications to public servants, citizens, and the media.
'''Adjunct scholars''' {{colbegin}} * [[Joshua Claybourn]]
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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.inpolicy.org}}
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