Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and ActionR. Weaver Routledge, 29 sept. 2017 - 617 pages 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 their growth, scope, and constraints, while providing institutional profiles of such organizations in every region of the world.Beginning with North America, contributors analyze think tank development past and future, consider their relationship to the general political culture, and provide detailed looks at such examples as the Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Research on Public Policy. A historical and subregional overview of think tanks throughout Europe notes the emphasis on European Union issues and points to a dramatic rise in the number and influence of free market institutes across the continent. Think tanks in Germany, Spain, and France are profiled with respect to national politics and cultures. Advanced industrial nations of northern Asia are compared and contrasted, revealing a greater need for independent policy voices. Moving to countries undergoing economic transition, contributors deal with challenges posed in Russia and the former Soviet bloc and their think tanks' search for influence, independence, and sustainability. Other chapters deal with the developing countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, finding that the number, quality, and independence of think tanks is largely determined by the degree of democracy in individual nations. |
Table des matières
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2 Think Tanks in North America | 37 |
3 The Heritage Foundation | 67 |
4 Institute for Research on Public Policy | 87 |
5 Think Tanks in Western Europe | 103 |
6 French Public Policy Research Institutes and Their Political Impact as Another Illustration of the French Exception | 139 |
The KonradAdenauerStiftung | 169 |
Searching for Relevance | 187 |
A Case Study | 367 |
17 Dynamics of Think Tank Development in Southeast Asia Australia New Zealand and Papua New Guinea | 383 |
18 Think Tanks in Singapore | 411 |
An Overview | 423 |
A Leading Think Tank in Asia | 455 |
21 Think Tanks in SubSaharan Africa | 465 |
22 An Analysis of Francophone Economic Research Centers in Cote dIvoire Burkina Faso and Senegal | 491 |
23 Think Tanks in Nigeria | 509 |
Toward Building Capacity for More Democratic Societies | 221 |
10 The Korean Institute of International Studies | 243 |
The Uncertain Future for Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe | 251 |
Reflections on the Politics of Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe | 273 |
13 Think Tanks in the Former Soviet Union | 293 |
14 The Economic Research Center | 319 |
Civil Society Think Tanks in the Middle East and North Africa | 337 |
24 Think Tanks in Latin America | 529 |
25 Instituto APOYO | 551 |
The Case of Instituto Brasileirode Economia as an Illustration | 567 |
About the Authors | 585 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action James G. McGann,R. Kent Weaver Aucun aperçu disponible - 2002 |
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