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Do Think Tanks Matter? - Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, Third Edition (Hardcover)
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Do Think Tanks Matter? - Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, Third Edition (Hardcover)
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It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with
lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter?
Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have
evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an impact
continues to be ignored. Think tank directors often credit their
institutes with influencing major policy debates and government
legislation, and many journalists and scholars believe the
explosion of think tanks since the latter part of the twentieth
century is indicative of their growing importance in the
policy-making process. Abelson goes beyond assumptions,
highlighting both the visibility and relevance of public policy
institutes in what has become a contentious and polarized political
arena in the United States, and in Canada, where, despite recent
growth in numbers, they enjoy less prominence than their US
counterparts. By focusing on how think tanks engage in issue
articulation, policy formation, and implementation, Abelson argues
that they have helped to shape the political dialogue and the
policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but in different
ways and at different stages of the policy cycle. This expanded and
revised third edition includes additional institutional profiles of
key think tanks, an updated chapter on presidents and think tanks,
a new chapter on the efforts of a group of public policy institutes
to shape the discourse around the possible construction of the
controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and dozens of new graphs and
tables that track the public visibility and perceived policy
relevance or impact of top-tier think tanks.
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