Jason Sorens
Jason Sorens, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at AIER. He is also Principal Investigator on the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas. Jason was formerly the director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College. He has researched and written more than 20 peer‐reviewed journal articles, a book for McGill‐Queens University Press titled Secessionism, and a biennially revised book for the Cato Institute, Freedom in the 50 States (with William Ruger).
His research is focused on housing policy and land-use regulation, U.S. state politics, fiscal federalism, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University at Buffalo and twice won awards for best teaching in his department. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Articles by Jason Sorens
Research Publications by Jason Sorens
Title: Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom
Authors: WP Ruger, J Sorens
Publication: And see Cato Institute’s website www. freedominthe50states. org, 4th ed., 2016
Title: Hearing: US Policy toward national self-determination movements
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: House committee on foreign affairs, 1-6, 2016
Title: The Case for ‘Virtue Libertarianism’ Over Libertinism
Authors: W Ruger, J Sorens
Publication: Reason, 2016
Title: The False Promise of Instant Runoff Voting
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Cato Institute, 2016
Title: Vertical fiscal gaps and economic performance: A theoretical review and an empirical meta-analysis
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Mercatus Working paper, 2016
