Think tank
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Notes
- ^ see The American Heritage Dictionary. "Think Tank." 2000. and Merriam Webster's Dictionary. "Think Tank."
- ^ • Diane Stone ‘Think Tanks and Policy Analysis’, in Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller. & Mara S. Sidney (eds.) Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Politics, New York, Marcel Dekker Inc. 2006: 149-157
- ^ NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks 2002: Introduction
- ^ Think tanks - SourceWatch
- ^ News: Discovery's Creation (Seattle Weekly)
- ^ Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive - New York Times
- ^ Access : : Nature
- ^ http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/9.6-Ong%26Glantz-JunkScience.pdf
- ^ How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" | Center for Media and Democracy
- ^ About us - Asef think tank http://www.iranasef.org/about.asp
- ^ About CEPS. Centre for European Policy Studies (2008-02-29). Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ The Age, April 17, 2007: ["New think tank to help swing ideas from right to left" http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/new-think-tank-to-help-swing-ideas-from-right-to-left/2007/04/05/1175366408429.html]
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See also
- Abilene paradox
- Brain Trust
- Collective behavior
- Collective consciousness
- Collective Effervescence
- Collective intelligence
- Futurists
- Group behaviour
- Group polarization
- Group-serving bias
- Groupthink
- List of think tanks
- List of think tanks in the United Kingdom
- Overton window
- Peer pressure
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Additional reading
- Abelson, Donald E. Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
- Boucher, Stephen, et al, Europe and its think tanks; a promise to be fulfilled. An analysis of think tanks specialised in European policy issues in the enlarged European Union, Studies and Research No 35, October, Paris, Notre Europe, 2004
- Cockett, Richard, Thinking the unthinkable: think tanks and the economic counter revolution; 1931 - 1983, London: Fontana, 1995
- Dickson, Paul. "Think Tanks". New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. 397 pages.
- Goodman, John C. "What is a Think Tank?" National Center for Policy Analysis, 2005.[1]
- Fan, Maureen. "Capital Brain Trust Puts Stamp on the World", Washington Post (16 May 2005): B01.[2]
- Patrick Dixon. Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change - issues covered by Think Tanks and methodology for reviewing trends, impact on policy 2003): Profile Books
- Hellebust, Lynn and Kristen Hellebust, editors. Think Tank Directory: A Guide to Independent Nonprofit Public Policy Research Organizations. Topeka, Kansas: Government Research Service, 2006 (2nd edition).
- Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Ladi, Stella. Globalisation, Policy Transfer And Policy Research Institutes, Edward Elgar, 2005.
- McGann, James. The International Survey of Think Tanks. Philadelphia: FPRI, 1999.
- McGann, James. Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalyst for Ideas and Action. Co-edited with Kent B.Weaver. Transaction Publishers, 2000.
- McGann, James. Comparative Think Tanks, Politics and Public Policy. Edward Elgar, 2005.
- McGann, James. Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the U.S: Academics, Advisors and Advocates. London: Routledge, 2007.
- McGann, James. Think Tanks: Catalysts for Democratization and Market Reform. Forthcoming.
- McGann, James. Global Trends and Transitions: 2007 Survey of Think Tanks. Philadelphia: FPRI, 2008.
- McGann, James. The Global Go To Think Tanks. Philadelphia: FPRI 2008.
- Smith, James. A. The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite, New York: The Free Press, 1991.
- Stone, Diane. Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process, London: Frank Cass, 1996
- Stone, Diane. ‘Garbage Cans, Recycling Bins or Think Tanks? Three Myths about Policy Institutes’, Public Administration, 85(2) 2007: 259-278
- Stone, Diane, and Andrew Denham, eds. Think Tank Traditions: Policy Research and the Politics of Ideas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
- Struyk, Raymond J. Managing Think Tanks: Practical Guidance for Maturing Organizations, Budapest, Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative Washington DC., Urban Institute 2002
- UNDP – United Nations Development Program. Thinking the Unthinkable, Bratislava, UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, 2003
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External links
- Think Tank Explosion: Growth of the Independent Think Tank Industry in the United States - Short white paper charting the dramatic increase in the number of independent U.S. think tanks since the end of World War II.
- The Economist Magazine and NPR's Marketplace report: "Under the Influence: Think Tanks and The Money That Fuels Them"
- NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks
- Think Tank Directory: Directory of German think tanks (in German) and Think Tank Directory Europe with a list of European institutes with a specialisation in EU issues (in English)
- World Press Review Directory of Think-Tanks and NGOs
- PBS' Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg: "Thinking About Think Tanks" - interview with Christopher DeMuth, President of AEI, October 13, 2005
- (French) French Observatory of Think Tanks, Analysis and articles on Européans and French TT.
- Policy Experts - The Insider Guide to Policy Experts and Organizations - It is envisioned as the essential guide to the best and the brightest thinkers and policy organizations in the United States and around the world.
- Foreign Policy Research Institute, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programdirectory of over 5000 think tanks and research on the role and impact of think tanks in developed, developing and transitional countries.
- ODI Research and Policy in Development - Overseas Development Institute programme to improve the use of research and evidence in development policy and practice.
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