I am currently finishing a book entitled "The Big Government Myth".

I am looking for an experienced and hard-working research assistant who is able handle rigorous academic-level research. Work will be focused on finding stories, quotes, numbers etc. to fill in key gaps in the book.

Someone who is either libertarian-leaning or agnostic on politics may be better suited for the work as it is argumentative.

The thesis is as follows:

The United States federal government is subject to a set of compounding, congenital institutional flaws that consistently lead to unhelpful even harmful long-tern policies. Significant, widely acknowledged failures already include welfare, public housing, and Amtrak. The set of failures looks poised to expand to Social Security and Medicare, 22% and 14% of the 2012 budget. The long-term fiscal outlook for both ensures a net negative return for future generations. Far beyond its traditional roles of national defense, foreign affairs and the federal judiciary, the federal government cannot improve society. The belief that it can is a political myth.