Think tank traditions
Subtitle: policy research and the politics of ideas
By: edited by Diane Stone and Andrew Denham.
Contributors: Stone, Diane, 1964-; Denham, Andrew.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Policy sciences -- Research.; Research institutes.; Government consultants.; Political planning.; Policy scientists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Think tanks, policy advice and governance / Diane Stone; title: pt. 1. The international dimension. Institutes of international affairs: their roles in foreign policy-making, opinion mobilization and unofficial diplomacy / Inderjeet Parmar; title: Think tanks beyond nation-states / Diane Stone; title: European Union think tanks: generating ideas, analysis and debate / Heidi Ullrich; title: pt. 2. European think tank traditions. Think tanks in Germany / Martin Thunert; title: Italy: think tanks and the political system / Sonia Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli; title: French think tanks in comparative perspective / Catherine Fieschi and John Gaffney; title: Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe / Mark Sandle; title: pt. 3. Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition. The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes / Ming-Chen Shai with Diane Stone; title: Think tanks in Japan: a new alternative / Makiko Ueno; title: Think tanks and Malaysian development / Su-ming Khoo; title: Think tanks in developing countries: lessons from Argentina / Miguel Braun, Antonio Cicioni and Nicolas J. Ducote; title: pt. 4. The Anglo-American tradition. The business of ideas: the think tank industry in the USA / Donald E. Abelson; title: A 'hollowed-out' tradtion? British think tanks in the twenty-first century / Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett; title: Australian think tanks / Ian Marsh and Diane Stone; title: Three decades of Canadian think tanks: evolving institutions, conditions and strategies / Evert A. Lindquist; title: Afterword: soft power, global agendas / William Wallce; title: Appendix: think tanks and their web sites / Diane Stone.