The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based conservative think tank.
[4][5] According to the organization, the MacIver Institute promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government.
[6] One of the MacIver Institute's primary donors is the Bradley Foundation.
[1] In 2011, the MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity purchased more than $500,000 worth of television ads in Wisconsin supporting Scott Walker's budget proposals.
[8] In 2014, a Wisconsin appeals court sided with the MacIver Institute, ruling that Democratic State Senator Jon Erpenbach must turn over 2,600 emails sent to him during the political battle over Scott Walker's 2011 Wisconsin Act 10.