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Founded in 1973, initial funding came from Joseph Coors, a political conservative and owner of the Coors brewing company in Golden, Colorado. Conservative activist Paul Weyrich was its first head and Edwin Feulner has been its President since 1974.
Until 2001, when it was acquired by the Hoover Institution, the Heritage Foundation published Policy Review, one of the world's leading conservative public policy journals.
The Heritage Foundation is known for the wide-ranging nature of its work. However, it is perhaps best known for the following two efforts:
First, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the Heritage Foundation was a key champion of the Reagan Doctrine, under which the US government channeled overt and covert (and often times illegal) support to embattled anti-Communist governments and/or resistance movements in such places as Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and generally supported global anti-communism.
Unlike traditional think tank advocacy, Heritage foreign policy analysts didn't restrict their support for the Reagan Doctrine to work from behind a Washington desk. During the 1980s and early 1990s, many were also deeply intertwined players in wars against legitimate regimes, visiting regularly with rebel forces in Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua to provide the rebel insurgents with valued political and military guidance.
Heritage's support for anti-Communist forces drew public praise from these resistance movements, and some conservative historians believe ultimately it was a contributing factor in Moscow's decision to withdraw from those theaters. In the view of some Reagan Doctrine opponents and others, however, Heritage's involvement in those conflicts vastly inflamed Third World hostilities, fueling even more unnecessary death and destruction.
The foundation also supported President Ronald Reagan's belief that the former Soviet Union was an " evil empire" and that its defeat, not its mere containment, should be America's foreign policy objective. Consistent with this thinking, Heritage also played a key role in building support for Reagan's plans to build an orbital ballistic missile shield (" Star Wars") for the United States.
Second, in partnership with the Wall Street Journal, the Heritage Foundation publishes the annual Index of Economic FreedomThe Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation. The index measures how well countries score on a list of 50 independent variables divided into 10 broad factors of economic freedom. The hi, which measures how free a country's citizens are in terms of property rights, control over their money, freedom from regulation, and so on. The factors used to calculate the Index score are corruption in governmentA government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. The government has been defined as the dominant decision-making arm (the policy el, barriers to international tradeInternational trade is defined as trade between two or more partners from different countries (an exporter and an importer). Early international trade consisted mostly of barter transactions. International trade is also a branch of economics. Traditionall, income taxIncome tax is a direct tax which is levied on the income of private individuals. Various income tax systems exist, ranging from a flat tax to an extensive progressive tax system. Tax levied on the income of companies is often called corporate income tax o and corporate tax rates, government expenditures, rule of lawThe rule of law implies that government authority may only be exercised in accordance with written laws, which were adopted through an established procedure. The principle is intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary rulings in individual cases. Genera and the ability to enforce contractA contract is any promise or set of promises made by one party to another for the breach of which the law provides a remedy. The promise or promises may be express (either written or oral) or may be implied from circumstances. Typically, the remedy for brs, regulatory burdens, banking restrictions, labor regulations, and black market activities. Deficiencies in any of these areas will result in a lower score on the Index.
Many Heritage Foundation personnel have held, or gone on to hold, influential roles in American business and government, including Richard V. Allen, L. Paul Bremer, Elaine Chao, Michael Johns and Edwin Meese. Other notables include: David Brock (right-wing journalist turned left-wing activist), Todd Gaziano (legal scholar), Stephen Glass (journalist on which the movie " Shattered Glass" is based), Eli Lehrer (law enforcement guru), Robert Moffitt (health care analyst), Nina Rees (education analyst and Bush administration staffer) and Larry Wortzel (foreign policy expert).
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