Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition
Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes
Published on 1. September 2009
978-0-7735-8038-1 (ISBN)
Description
Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Donald E. Abelson
Do Think Tanks Matter?
Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, Second Edition
Book
09/2009
McGill-Queen's University Press
€147.07
Withdrawn from sale
Person
Donald E. Abelson, professor and chair, Department of Political Science, and director, Centre for American Studies, The University of Western Ontario, is the author of A Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy.
