Program areas at Competitive Enterprise Institute
Communications and outreachcei's communications and outreach department assists the cei policy centers with their efforts to disseminate research findings and analysis to various audiences including policymakers, news media, allied organizations, and the general public. It also helps the policy centers build coalitions of like minded scholars, activists, and other stakeholders to advance the organization's mission of promoting the institutions of liberty and removing government-created barriers to economic freedom, innovation, and prosperity.
Center for litigation - the central mission of cei's center for law & litigation is to encourage government bodies to comply with the law that governs them. Cei does this through representation of parties in public interest litigation, submission of amicus briefs, policy analysis and advocacy, government records requests, and research support extended to cei's policy colleagues. Issues that the center has focused on in the recent past include corporate average fuel economy standards, consumer appliance energy efficiency standards, the universal service fee, mutual funds fees, and civil forfeiture reform.
Center for economic freedomcei's center for economic freedom addresses many of the industries and activities where long-established, and often paternalistic, regulatory policies tend to stymie the creation and evolution of new products and services, technologies, business practices, and work arrangements. Key issue areas include banking and securities regulation, consumer finance, labor law and employment policy, consumer product regulation, and trade policy. These issue areas requires our experts to have a firm understanding of existing regulation, regulation's monetary and social costs, and an appreciation of the way technology and innovation present new challenges and prospects for reform.
Center for energy and environmentcei's center for energy and environment makes the positive case for abundant energy and promotes environmental policies based on economic freedom, property rights, and limited government. The center works to combat the belief that prosperity threatens the environment, that the answer to every environmental challenge is more regulation and that risks can be abolished by limiting human ingenuity.
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