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Lexington Institute was founded by Merrick Carey in 1998.

According to its web site, the goal of the Lexington Institute is "to inform, educate, and shape the public debate of national priorities in those areas that are of surpassing importance to the future success of democracy, such as national security, education reform, tax reform, immigration and federal policy concerning science and technology. By promoting America's ability to project power around the globe we not only defend the homeland of democracy, but also sustain the international stability in which other free-market democracies can thrive.

"The Lexington Institute believes in limiting the role of the federal government to those functions explicitly stated or implicitly defined by the Constitution. The Institute therefore actively opposes the unnecessary intrusion of the federal government into the commerce and culture of the nation, and strives to find nongovernmental, market-based solutions to public-policy challenges. We believe a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity," it states.

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Leadership

James Andrew Courter, Chairman
Merrick Carey, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Loren B. Thompson, Chief Operating Officer
Don Soifer, Executive Vice President
Philip Peters, Vice President
Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President
Robert Holland, Senior Fellow
Kerry Finnegan, Program Director
Dr. Andrew Rhein, Research Analyst

Others

Clifford Sobel was is a trustee of the Lexington Institute [1]
Bonner Cohen was in 1998 a Visiting Fellow [2] and from January 1999 [3] to 2003 [4] a Senior Fellow of the Lexington Institute
Paul F. Steidler was from 1998 [5] to 2000 [6] Senior Fellow of the Lexington Institute
Robert Severns was involved in the start-up of the Lexington Institute and received posthumously the 'Lexington 2003 Leadership Award'. [7]
Russell G. Redenbaugh, director since 1999 [8]
Daniel Strickberger, director since 1999
Adrienne J. Murphy joined the Lexington Institute in October 1998 as Program Coordinator, became the Director of Operations in August 1999, and she was Vice President from August 2000 to summer 2001. [9]
Nancy J. Limauro joined the Lexington Institute in September 1999 as a Program Coordinator until the end of 2000. [10]

Relation with the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Many people involved in the Lexington Institute were before active at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI).

Name	(former) function at AdTI
James Andrew Courter	former chairman of the 'Committee for the Common Defense' (an AdTI defense program) and in 1998 consultant at AdTI
Merrick Carey	Former President AdTI
Dr. Loren B. Thompson	Senior Fellow
Philip Peters	staff (1998)
Clifford Sobel	director (1996)
Paul F. Steidler	director of the AdTI's Education Reform Project
Robert Severns	member of the first board in 1989

Gregory Fossedal (chairman of AdTI) wrote about Merrick Carey (who founded the Lexington Institute in 1998)

"... a bright and well-organized fellow who helped give me my start in politics in 1982, as I later gave him a start in the think tank business in 1993." [11]

Contact details

1600 Wilson Boulevard

Suite 900

Arlington, VA 22209

Phone: 703-522-5828

Fax: 703-522-5837

URL: http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org

Other Related SourceWatch Resources

External links

Electronic Warfare Working Group, Statement of Congressman Joseph R. Pitts, Lexington Institute Forum on Electronic Warfare, October 5, 2001.
MediaTransparency.org: 2001, $105,000 for "The Security Implications of Directed Energy Weapons", funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Lexington Institute on Schema Root

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Merrick Carey (also known as Mac Carey) is Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Lexington Institute, "a public policy foundation he founded in 1998 and is based in Arlington, Virginia. The Institute runs research, press efforts and policy forums to advance democratic capitalism and a strong national defense. Its annual revenues are currently $2.5m per year.

"Carey was Press Secretary to Representative Jack Kemp (1982-1984). From 1985 to 1987, Carey was Chief of Staff to Representative James Andrew Courter, a member of the House Armed Services and Iran-Contra Committees, and in 1989 he served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. From 1990-1993, Carey was Executive Vice President of the international economic advisory firm Johnson Smick International.

"Mr. Carey also served for 7 years as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Naval Reserve. He joined in 1989 as a Petty Officer 3rd Class, was commissioned as an Ensign in 1990 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1994. His duties included 7 months as an Intelligence Watch Officer at U. S. Navy Headquarters, Europe, from September 1990-April 1991 as a mobilized reservist for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and as an Air Intelligence Officer for 5 weeks in 1996 preparing missions and flying with VP-11 in support of Operation Decisive Edge over Bosnia.

"Mr. Carey has a B. A. in History and Political Science from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey."

Mr. Carey wrote in 1994 as the president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution a letter to David P. Nicoli at Philip Morris asking $60.000 for a 2 months pro-tobacco campaign. [1]

Merrick Carey wrote as president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) the chapter 'Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Ideology Before the Facts' in the paper "Candidates for Corrections Day: The Ten Worst Regulations of the Federal Government" [2], published on June 1, 1996 by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

Mr. Carey remained president of AdTI until early 1998. According to AdTI's 990 forms his salary in 1996 as a president was $95,400 and in 1998 his salary as a former president was $172,000. See also: AdTI-Funding.

Some other articles he wrote as president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution:

Modularity Times Three. Sea Power, April 1997
"Our Shrinking Army", Washington Times, June 30, 1997
The Submarine "Message". The Submarine Review, October 1997
Arm Tridents for Conventional Warfare, Defense News, November 24-30, 1997
Trident Conversion Wins Defense Panel's Support, Sea Power, February 1998

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The Lexington Institute is a small public-policy think tank headquartered in Arlington, Virginia that focuses on national security, education reform, energy policy and logistics.^[2] It is organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which means it is a tax-exempt, non-profit foundation that may not lobby.^[3] The institute does not receive money from the federal government. Its main sources of funding are corporations, foundations, and individuals.

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History and philosophy

The Lexington Institute was founded in 1998 by former Congressman James Courter (R-NJ), former congressional aide Merrick Carey, former Georgetown University professor Loren Thompson, and policy analyst Donald Soifer. As of September 2015 they are respectively the chairman, chief executive officer, chief operating officer and executive vice president of the institute.^[4]

The institute's political philosophy, as reflected in its publications, is center-right, emphasizing a strong national defense, education reform, and market-driven solutions to energy and logistic needs. Although the organization's mission statement does not describe it as "conservative" or "libertarian,"^[5] it tends to oppose big government, tax increases and federal intervention in the daily lives of citizens.

The institute's employees – there are fewer than ten, supplemented by outside experts and interns – are frequently quoted in national media. One survey of think tank visibility rated the institute as number-two in the nation relative to its budget size.^[6] Loren Thompson is a longstanding contributor to Forbes.com, and other staffers such as Daniel Goure and Don Soifer are cited regularly in national media.^[7]

Defense policy

The Lexington Institute has been called the "defense industry's pay-to-play ad agency", reflecting that it receives funding from military contractors and issues stream of reports, usually favorable, about the performance and status of key weapons programs.^[8] However, institute staffers are frequently critical of particular weapons or policies, assailing among other things the Navy's next-generation destroyer, the Army's future troop carrier, a proposed joint replacement for the Humvee light tactical vehicle and most of the acquisition reform measures proposed during the Obama Administration.^[citation ^needed] Media citations frequently note that Lexington staffers have ties to military contractors. Thompson stated, "I'm not going to work on a project unless somebody, somewhere, is willing to pay. This is a business. My bottom line is that if what I write and say is true, it doesn't really matter what my motives are."^[8]

Daniel Goure and Thompson are two Lexington defense analysts. Goure was formerly associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Thompson was deputy director of Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and taught there for two decades, during which time he received a Ph.D. from the university. Thompson argued in favor of continued C-17 production in 2009 and against this production in 2010.^[9] He also taught briefly at Harvard. Thompson has said that the United States is likely to engage in war against Vietnam again and so needs the EFV to storm their beaches.^[10]He has also called for a shift in American defense spending towards items such as the Littoral Combat Ship and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II that can be exported to allies.^[11] Thompson has said that "The United States cannot continue to spend, especially on defense, the way it has been over the past decade.”^[12]Despite being funding by defense contractors, Goure has argued that the use of these contractors is a sign of an army in decline.^[13]

Education policy

In 2015, the institute launched the Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) fellowships, the first national fellowship for personalized learning. The inaugural cohort of fellows included ten school district superintendents and assistant superintendents from around the country, participating in a six-month fellowship program. In November 2015, the institute announced 30 semifinalists for the second cohort of fellows.^[14]

In February 2014, the Institute published a report, "Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century."^[15]

In February 2014, an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch by Lexington analysts Doug Mesecar and Don Soifer called for broader implementation of performance-based funding models for public education.^[16]

Lexington's research on successful strategies for structured English immersion programs was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2009 Horne v. Flores opinion.^[17]

Bob Holland and Don Soifer, policy analysts with the Lexington Institute, have argued that multiculturalism has fostered a decline in the teaching of US History and the rise of Islamic extremism.^[18][19]

As a result of his writings, Soifer's 2012 reappointment to the board of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board was delayed,^[20] but Soifer was reconfirmed to serve a second four-year term on the board on December 4, 2012, by a 7-2 vote of the DC Council. ^[21]

An April 2013 education paper, "Why Blended Learning Can't Stand Still", analyzed best practices at several of the nation's highest performing blended learning public charter and traditional schools.^[22]

As one Education Week writer described their findings, "Constant, real-time data monitoring streamlines the formerly arduous task of analyzing student results, giving teachers more time to plan and individualize lessons to accelerate and enhance learning."^[23]

Soifer has also published articles arguing that Virginia needs more charter schools, state takeovers of failing schools, and other ways to foster innovation.^[24]

Politics

The Institute also covers purely political topics. For example, Thompson wrote that most of the candidates in the Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012 are "unsuited to high office".^[25]

Energy

The institute published a 2014 white paper, “Keeping the Lights On: How Electricity Policy Must Keep Up With Technology.”^[26]

Lexington operates the policy website, EnergyTrends.org, that focuses on energy use and renewable energy in the United States.^[27]

A 2013 Lexington report, "Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electric Grid," argued for strategies to minimize the impact of disruptions to the power grid.^[28]

Members

Jim Courter, Chairman
Merrick Carey, CEO
Loren B. Thompson, Chief Operating Officer
Don Soifer, Executive Vice President
Dan Goure, Vice President
Dr. Rebecca Grant, was formally a senior fellow

References

External links

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The Lexington Institute of Arlington, VA is a Libertarian, free market think tank, founded in 1988 by Merrick Carey with help from Robert L. Severns of the Alexis De Tocqueville Institution. Its annual revenue is roughly $2.5 million, having received funding from corporate sponsors.

On 9 June 2008 the Press-Register reported that almost all funding for the Lexington Institute came from the defense contractors whose products it frequently wrote in favor of.

The Lexington Institute was the 21st most cited by the media think tank in 2008, two slots below its ranking in 2007. They were the second most cost-effective think tank in media citations per dollar invested.

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