Think tank traditions

Policy analysis across nations
Herausgeber: Denham, Andrew; Stone, Diane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By addressing these broad and increasingly important dimensions of think tank activity, this book should have considerable appeal among students of comparative politics, public policy and international affairs.

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As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064791
• ISBN-10: 0719064791
• Artikelnr.: 22037636

Autorenporträt

Diane Stone is Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick Andrew Denham is Reader in Government at the University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Think tanks, policy advice and governance - Diane Stone
Part I The international dimension 2. Institutes of International Affairs
in foreign policy making, opinion mobilisation and unofficial diplomacy -
Inderjeet Parmar 3. Think tanks beyond nation states - Diane Stone 4.
European Union think tanks: Generating ideas, analysis and debate - Heidi
Ullrich Part II European think tank traditions 5. Think tanks in Germany -
Martin Thunert 6. Italy: Think tanks and the political system - Sonia
Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli 7. French think tanks in comparative
perspective - Catherine Fieschi and John Gaffney 8. Think tanks, post
communism and democracy in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe - Mark Sandle
Part III. Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition 9.
The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes - Ming Chen Shai with
Diane Stone 10. Think tanks in Japan: A new alternative - Makiko Ueno 11.
Think tanks and Malaysian development - Su Ming Khoo 12. Think tanks in
developing countries: Lessons from Argentina - Miguel Braun, Antonio
Cicioni and Nicholas J. Durote Part IV. The Anglo-American tradition 13.
The business of ideas: A look at the think tank industry in the United
States - Don Abelson 14. A 'hollowed out' tradition? British think tanks in
the twenty-first century - Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett 15. Australian
think tanks - Ian Marsh and Diane Stone 16. Three decades of Canadian think
tanks: Evolving institutions, conditions and strategies - Evert A.
Lundqvist Afterword Soft power, global agendas - William Wallace