Think tanks in America
By: Thomas Medvetz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226517292; 9780226517308
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Policy sciences; Research institutes; Government consultants; Political planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: gaining ground: the rise of the policy expert; title: Indistinction: rethinking the think tank; title: Experts in the making: on the birth of technoscientific reason; title: The crystallization of the space of think tanks; title: The rules of policy research; title: From deprivation to dependency: expert discourse and the American welfare debate; title: Conclusion: anti-intellectualism, public intellectualism, and public; title: Sociology revisited.