PRI’s Candidate Briefing Program
The Pacific Research Institute offers the Candidate Briefing Program to educate candidates about market-based solutions to restore the once-Golden State as a place of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity for all.
Candidates would have the opportunity to learn from PRI’s more than 40 years of experience analyzing the state’s major issues, interacting directly with our fellows and scholars about market-based policy reforms to address California’s numerous policy challenges, including:
- Health Care
- Education
- The Environment
- Business and Economics
- Medical Economics and Innovation
- California Reform
To request a candidate briefing, please complete this form.
Useful Resources
Here are some of PRI’s recent books, studies, publications, and events that future candidates should review to learn more about market-based solutions to the state’s many problems.
California Reform
Saving California: Solutions to the State’s Biggest Policy Problems
Book edited by Steven Greenhut
Watch panel discussions on health care, homelessness, charter schools, economic recovery and water
2021 California Ideas in Action conference
Panel discussions on entrepreneurship, the Governor’s executive authority, school choice, and homelessness
2020 California Ideas in Action conference
Poverty and Homelessness
No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity
Book by Kerry Jackson, Christopher Rufo, Joseph Tartakovsky and Wayne WinegardenUnaffordable: How Government Made California’s Housing Shortage a Crisis and How Free Market Ideas Can Restore Affordability and Supply
Brief by Kerry JacksonGood Intentions: How California’s Anti-Poverty Programs Aren’t Delivering and How the Private Sector Can Lift More People Out of Poverty
Brief by Kerry JacksonLiving in Fear in California: How Well-Meaning Policy Mistakes are Undermining Safe Communities and What Can Be Done to Restore Public Safety
Book by Kerry JacksonEnvironment
Winning the Water Wars: California Can Meet its Water Needs by Promoting Abundance Rather Than Managing Scarcity
Book by Steven GreenhutCEQA: How to Mend it Since You Can’t End It
Brief by The Hon. Daniel KolkeyLegislating Energy Poverty
Study by Wayne WinegardenLegislating Energy Prosperity
Study by Wayne WinegardenCalifornia’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?
Brief by Kerry JacksonCostly Subsidies for the Rich
Study by Wayne WinegardenEducation
Business and Economics
Health Care
False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All
Book by Sally C. Pipes
