Think tank traditions : policy research and the politics of ideas / edited by Diane Stone and Andrew Denham.

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Other Authors: Stone, Diane, 1964-, Denham, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Think tanks, policy advice and governance / Diane Stone
  • pt. 1. The international dimension. Institutes of international affairs: their roles in foreign policy-making, opinion mobilization and unofficial diplomacy / Inderjeet Parmar
  • Think tanks beyond nation-states / Diane Stone
  • European Union think tanks: generating ideas, analysis and debate / Heidi Ullrich
  • pt. 2. European think tank traditions. Think tanks in Germany / Martin Thunert
  • Italy: think tanks and the political system / Sonia Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli
  • French think tanks in comparative perspective / Catherine Fieschi and John Gaffney
  • Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe / Mark Sandle
  • pt. 3. Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition. The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes / Ming-Chen Shai with Diane Stone
  • Think tanks in Japan: a new alternative / Makiko Ueno
  • Think tanks and Malaysian development / Su-ming Khoo
  • Think tanks in developing countries: lessons from Argentina / Miguel Braun, Antonio Cicioni and Nicolas J. Ducote
  • pt. 4. The Anglo-American tradition. The business of ideas: the think tank industry in the USA / Donald E. Abelson
  • A 'hollowed-out' tradition? British think tanks in the twenty-first century / Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett
  • Australian think tanks / Ian Marsh and Diane Stone
  • Three decades of Canadian think tanks: evolving institutions, conditions and strategies / Evert A. Lindquist
  • Afterword: soft power, global agendas / William Wallce
  • Appendix: think tanks and their web sites / Diane Stone.