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Think Tanks in America (Paperback)
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Think Tanks in America (Paperback)
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Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of
American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy
makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and
figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think
tanks? Who funds them? What kind of "research" do they produce?
Where does their authority come from? And how influential have they
become? In Think Tanks in America, Thomas Medvetz argues that the
curious ambiguity of the think tank is not an accidential feature
of its existence, but the very key to its impact. By combining
elements of more established sources of public
knowledge-universities, government agencies, businesses, and the
media-think tanks exert tremendous influence on the way citizens
and lawmakers perceive the world and construct policy, unbound by
the more clearly defined institutions they draw on and mimic. In
the process, they have transformed the government of this country,
the press, and the political role of intellectuals. Timely,
succinct, and instructive, this provocative book will force us to
rethink our understanding of the drivers of political debate in the
United States and beyond.
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