Think Tank Traditions Policy Analysis Across Nations

by Stone, Diane; Denham, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780719064791
• ISBN10: 0719064791
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Think tank traditions is a follow up to the critically acclaimed Think tanks across nations (Manchester 1998), which was widely acknowledged as a ground-breaking work in the comparative study of think tanks.

Author Biography

Diane Stone is a Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. For two years from 2004, she will be Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. Andrew Denham is Reader in Government at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of contributors	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: think tanks, policy advice and governance	p. 1
The international dimension
Institutes of international affairs: their roles in foreign policy-making, opinion mobilization and unofficial diplomacy	p. 19
Think tanks beyond nation-states	p. 34
European Union think tanks: generating ideas, analysis and debate	p. 51
European think tank traditions
Think tanks in Germany	p. 71
Italy: think tanks and the political system	p. 89
French think tanks in comparative perspective	p. 105
Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe	p. 121
Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition
The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes	p. 141
Think tanks in Japan: a new alternative	p. 163
Think tanks and Malaysian development	p. 179
Think tanks in developing countries: lessons from Argentina	p. 198
The Anglo-American tradition
The business of ideas: the think tank industry in the USA	p. 215
A 'hollowed-out' tradition? British think tanks in the twenty-first century	p. 232
Australian think tanks	p. 247
Three decades of Canadian think tanks: evolving institutions, conditions and strategies	p. 264
Afterword: soft power, global agendas	p. 281
Think tanks and their web sites	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 317
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