The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) was a non-profit American think tank[3] whose goals were to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control.

Topics it addressed include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, education, and environmental regulation.

The organization later had offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C. Media attention focused on the NCPA (for example, U.S. News & World Report,[16] Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel,[17] Orange County Register[18]) for recommending pension reform legislation including automatic enrollment into companies' 401(k) plans.

The NCPA was a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, an organization created by the now-defunct non-profit group Consumer Alert that described itself as "an alliance of some two dozen non-profit public policy groups concerned about the implications of the Kyoto Protocol for consumers," and which generally rejected the scientific basis for anthropogenic global warming.

[22] The press release it issued in July 2017 announcing its dissolution attributed the Board's decision to cease operations immediately as necessitated by three years of financial difficulty.