Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society is a British think tank working on issues related to democracy and social policy.
Civitas research was drawn on heavily by Vote Leave in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
[5] It is opposed to green regulations, to legislation designed to reduce climate change, and to greater reliance on renewable energy.
The first Core Knowledge book, What Your Year 1 Child Needs to Know, aroused controversy over its message to minorities when released in 2011.
[17] A 2005 report by Civitas finding Britain's police forces to be among the least effective in the developed world "provoked outrage... among chief constables and criminologists.
The Government dismissed his report as “a manifesto for locking the British economy into excessive reliance on imported gas”.