00/00/2006

Monografía

/Donald E. Abelson. McGill-Queen's University Press

A Capitol Idea: think tanks and US foreign Policy

A Capitol Idea reveals the extent to which think tanks in the United States have become active and vocal participants in the foreign policy-making process. In this timely exploration, Donald Abelson re-evaluates the role of these complex organizations and looks at how political influence is achieved on Capitol Hill and in the White House. Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush’s controversial war on terror. In the process of uncovering how some of the nation’s most prominent think tanks have established themselves as key players in the political arena, he challenges traditional approaches to assessing policy influence and suggests alternative models.

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ISBN: 0773531157

00/00/2006

Monografía

/James G. McGann, Erik C. Johnson

Comparative Think Tanks, politics and public policy

Independent institutes conducting policy research, analysis and public dialogue, or ‘think tanks’ as they are more commonly known, are one of the leading catalysts for ideas and action in civil societies around the world. Examining the role of think tanks in the policy formulation process, this groundbreaking study provides the first systematically comparative and methodologically rigorous map of such organizations and the social, political, legal and economic conditions that shape their work.

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ISBN: 1843760223

00/00/2005

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/Jacques Kinau. Institute for Research

Start Your Own Tax-Exempt Think Tank: Effective Self-Defense Against Corporate and Political Donor Class Tax Predation

In Start Your Own Tax-Exempt Think Tank, serial entrepreneur and nonprofit think tank expert Jacques Kinau clearly lays out the benefits to be lawfully gained by establishing a "Think Tank" -- an organization that doesn't not have to produce any tangible product, but can nevertheless qualify for (to the lay reader) some astonishing financial benefits with respect to contemporary American tax laws. Kinau reveals how existing and planned tax law changes push more of America's total tax burden onto middle income taxpayers and wage earners, and how extremely profitable corporations dodge tax responsibilities the rest of us must endure through their creation of foundations. An informed and informative "how to" guide, Start Your Own Tax-Exempt Think Tank will enable anyone to establish a Tax Exempt Nonprofit Think Tank which can deliver to ordinary people the huge benefits typically the reserved province of high-rolling corporate executives. By following the instructions and resources provided by Kinau, anyone can incorporate their own tax exempt nonprofit think tank within in their own state in only a few weeks, and secure an IRS tax exemption within three months. If you are tired of being the cash cow for corporate America and their congressional allies, then give a serious reading to Start Your Own Tax-Exempt Think Tank.

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ISBN 0976443708

00/00/2004

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/ Inderjeet Parmar. Palgrave Macmillan

Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institure of International Affairs, 1939-1945

What is the role of elites in shaping foreign policy? Did unaccountable foreign policy elites shape the post-1945 world order? Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations were vital in America's shift from isolationism to globalism, and in Britain's shift from Empire to its current pro-American orientation and were also fundamental in engineering public backing for a new world order. Inderjeet Parmar presents new evidence to show how well-organized and well-connected elite think tanks helped to change the world.

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ISBN: 1403921032

00/00/2004

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/ Andrew Rich. Cambridge University Press

Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise

Think tanks are nonprofit policy research organizations that provide analysis and expertise to influence policymakers. From the 1970s their number exploded in the U.S. and their proliferation represented a hope that lawmaking might become better informed and more effective as a result of these expert contributions. Instead, as this book documents, the known ideologies of many, especially the newer, think tanks currently contribute to an environment in which they differ little from advocacy organizations, promoting points of view and preordained policy prescriptions. As a result, they fail to achieve desired influence and undermine their credibility.

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ISBN 052183029X

00/00/2004

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/ Diane Stone, Andrew Denham. Manchester University Press

Think Tank Traditions: policy analysis across nations

Think tank traditions is a follow up to the critically acclaimed monograph Think Tanks across Nations (Manchester University Press, 1998), edited by the same authors, which was widely acknowledged as a ground-breaking work in the comparative study of think tanks. The book looks at the historical role and contemporary significance of think tanks in the West, including Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as considering their activities in China, Eastern Europe and Argentina. In so doing, the book provides a broad-based and in-depth analysis of the role of think tanks in the processes of economic liberalization and democratization.

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ISBN: 0719064791

00/00/2002

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/ Raymond J. Struyk. Urban Institute

Managing Think tanks: a practical guide for maturing organizations

This book provides sophisticated advice tailored to the specific needs of think tank leaders in eight critical management areas: motivating and retaining staff; maintaining quality control; Developing new products and services and identifying new business opportunities; creating strong team leaders; Working successfully with the Board of Trustees or Board of Directors; structuring the research staff; Communicating results effectively; and determining an accurate overhead rate.

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/documents/APCITY/UNPAN007808.pdf

ISBN: 963 9419 43 5

00/00/2002

Monografía

/ Donald E. Abelson. McGill-Queens University Press; Montreal & Kingston

Do think tanks matter?: assessing the impact of public policy institutes

Everyone assumes that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers; this study traces the evolution of think tanks and examines how and under what conditions they can and have made an impact.

Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored.

Abelson studies the experiences of think tanks in the United States, where they have become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where their numbers have grown considerably in recent years but where, compared to their U.S. counterparts, they enjoy less prominence in policy-making. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation (that is, getting issues on the political agenda) and policy formation and implementation (actually affecting the outcome of policies already on the political agenda), he argues that think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle.

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ISBN: 0773523170

00/00/2002

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/James G. McGann and R. Kent Weaver. Transaction Publishers

Think Tanks & Civil Societies: catalysts for ideas and action

Government and individual policymakers throughout the developed and developing world face the common problem of bringing expert knowledge to bear in government decision making. Policymakers need understandable, reliable, accessible, and useful information about the societies they govern. They also need to know how current policies are working, as well as possible alternatives and their likely costs and consequences. This expanding need has fostered the growth of independent public policy research organizations, commonly known as think tanks. Think Tanks and Civil Societies analyzes the growth, scope, and constraints of think tanks, while providing institutional profiles of such organizations in every region of the world.

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ISBN: 0765809524

00/00/1998

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/ Andrew Denham, Mark Garnett

British Think Tanks and the Climate of Opinion

Investigating think tanks on both sides of the political divide, the author defines these groups in the context of British politics, explores their impact on the climate of opinion, and calculates how effective they have been in influencing government in general and key policy areas in particular. Think tanks have rarely come under the spotlight and the author offers a probing but balanced overview of a political phenomenon.; This book should prove to be valuable reading for students of political science, public administration and contemporary British history.

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ISBN: 1857284968

00/00/1997

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/Alex Carey. University of Illinois Press

Taking the risk out of democracy: corporate propaganda versus freedom and liberty

This compelling book examines the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses and its export to and adoption by other western democracies, chiefly the United Kingdom and Australia.

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ISBN 0-252-06616-2

00/00/1996

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/ Andrew Denham Denham. Dartmouth

Think-tanks of the New Right

This work considers the ideological and strategic characteristics of four New Right think tanks: the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Adam Smith Institute, the Centre for Policy Studies, and the Social Affairs Unit. It also examines the ideological orientation and modus operandi of each of them.

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ISBN: 1855218682

00/00/1996

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/Jean Stefaniac and Richard Delgado. Temple University Press

No mercy: how conservative think tanks and foundations changed America's social agenda

No Mercy reveals the rather shocking truth about how the New Right Conservatives have managed to gain the advantage in setting the country's political agenda through sheer ingenuity, determination, focused efforts and persuasive use of the media. The authors offer an alarming call to action urging the Political Left to adopt the same dedication and economy of effort that have proven so effective for the Right (e. g. English Only, Immigration Reform, Race and Eugenics, the abolition of Affirmative Action, Welfare Reform, Tort Reform, and the discrediting of Campus Multiculturalism). Stefancic and Delgado seek to inform Americans about how the juggernaut operatives (not to celebrate but to combat it) before it's too late. No Mercy is a national wake-up call that should be on every political science department's library shelf.

This is an analysis of the Right's rise to power. It shows that since since the 1960s, the Left has had little to do with setting the country's agenda and that conservative think tanks and foundations have been abetting a conservative revolution by funding a variety of issue-oriented studies.

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ISBN: 1566394694

00/00/1994

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/David M. Ricci. Yale University Press

The Transformation of American Politics: the New Washington and the Rise of Think Tanks

Washington think tanks such as the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation have become so large and influential in recent years that they now constitute virtually a new branch of the political system. In this engrossing and lively book, David M. Ricci brilliantly explores the parallel and convergent social, economic, and political trends within America that have transformed government in Washington and led to the development and prestige of these public policy research centers.

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ISBN: 0300061234     

00/00/1994

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/Richard Cockett. Fontana Press

Thinking the unthinkable: think-tanks and the economic counter-revolution, 1931-1983

There is another modern British history - an alternative tradition in our government, politics and economics. It is a history kept rather quiet, a tradition largely hidden from view - suspiciously well hidden, some would say. Thatcher seemed to hit Britain like a thunderbolt from the blue, but her ideas, her policies, her strategies and her vision had all been forged long before she ever arrived at Downing Street. They were first contrived by the anti-Keynesian economist, Friedrich Hayek, the man whose writings inspired Thatcher in all she did. He and his followers began, after World War II, the difficult and uphill task of countering the rise of socialistic collectivism. They were the economic liberals. Among their shock troops, their vanguard of revolutionaries, were Milton Friedman, Alan Walters, Keith Joseph, Ralph Harris, Alfred Sherman, John Biffen and Geoffrey Howe. Theirs was a long, gruelling fight, but in the mid-1970s, they found their ideal secret weapon. Within five years that weapon was running the country, and the rest is history, retold here in a new way. Richard Cockett is the author of "Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Manipulation of the Press", and "David Astor and the 'Observer'".

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ISBN: 0006375863

00/10/1993

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/James A. Smith. Free Press

Idea Brokers: Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite

According to Smith, formerly of the Twentieth Century Fund, the first attempt by experts to influence politics occurred in 1865 when a group of scholars meeting in Boston dubbed themselves the American Association for the Promotion of Social Science. The creation of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907 created the model of a research and advocacy organization. For the next sixty years, science, efficiency, and technology inspired the think tanks; liberalism became an almost unquestioned orthodoxy. This era came to an end with the emergence of conservative institutions in the 1970s, fundamentally changing the nature of think tankery. The conservatives, Smith argues, "took ideas and intellectual abstractions more seriously . . . than had the midcentury inheritors of pragmatism and liberalism." Indeed, the conservatives portrayed intellectual error as the root cause of modern problems. With this challenge to the prevailing orthodoxies, think tanks came into their own.

But what actual impact did they have? Smith sees the conservatives' long-term impact having less to do with convincing the public than in helping to shape a conservative policy elite. "Think tanks of the Right did not make a revolution; rather, they prepared the revolutionary cadres who ascended to power in 1980." Expertise has become the means to advancement for many of those actively engaged in policymaking; PhDs have longer and more varied public careers than do elected officials; and they have filled nearly every cabinet position in the Federal government.

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ISBN: 0029295556

00/00/1993

Monografía

Hollings, Robert L. Garland Science

Nonprofit Public Policy Research Organizations: a Sourcebook on Think Tanks in Government.

Traces the growth of political think tanks since the end of World War II, and their current influence, funding, and lobbying activities. Looks beyond Washington D.C. to organizations throughout the country and abroad, and predicts that think tanks will soon become important at the state level as po...

Referenciado en: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/ttanks.html

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