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Think tanks

A think tank is an organization that claims to serve as a center for research and/ or analysis of important public issues. In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self-serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue-propagandists pose as academics ... [into which] money gushes like blood from opened arteries to support meaningless advertising's suffocation of genuine debate". [1]

Of course, some think tanks are more legitimate than that. Private funding does not necessarily make a researcher a shill, and some think-tanks produce worthwhile public policy research. In general, however, research from think tanks is ideologically driven in accordance with the interests of its funders.

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The Thinker
statue by Rodin, photo by David Metraux
The Thinker

Wed. December 03, 2008

think tanks:
Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, who has worked for six secretaries of state, said Obama's team must focus more ...

... America's reputation," said Anthony Cordesman, a former State and Defense department official now at the Center For Strategic And International Studies. ...

Guy Ben-Ari, fellow at the Center For Strategic And International Studies, which has recommended institutionalizing some of Young's recent acquisition ...

... starts around the middle of 2009, some programs could begin to "slide off the table," said Thompson, who is with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute. ...

... next administration," Sharon Squassoni, a senior associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, told GSN. ...

... a Defense Department policy official under President George HW Bush, Sokolski is now executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. ...

Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute For The Analysis Of Global Security. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center For Security Policy. ...

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy. They are founding members of the Set America Free Coalition (www.SetAmericaFree.org).

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FORRES mechanics have set up a "think tank" to look at the proposed Bogton Road development and how it will affect the local football club - and the ...
... the political fence and from the pool of advisers-in-waiting in the Washington thinktanks, the big universities and the law firms and banks of New York. ...
Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott said Wednesday that the next United States administration will support the concept of giving Taiwan more ...
This week, think tankers welcome December with some hearty tax code analysis, an entree of means-testing federal education aid, a side of Japan's military ...

... stake it owns in cable Infrastructure to promote competition between different internet technologies, according to a report by an economic think tank. ...
Tragedies like the death of baby P are doomed to be repeated unless action is taken to ensure that the children of today do not grow up to become the kind ...
The government think tank also said the consumer inflation could be below 5 percent next year. The agency called to tap domestic demand potential and ...
... the greenback's sharp appreciation versus other major currencies over the past months, a researcher from a top government think tank said on Tuesday. ...
The think-tank said Malaysia, a net crude oil exporter, needs to shed its over-dependent on oil and gas revenue, which makes up more than 40 percent of ...
The Manhattan Institute is a think tank that's "mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual ...
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading Washington, DC-based think tank, which focuses on issues affecting African Americans, ...
Flournoy is on leave as president of the Center for a New American Security, a new national security think tank that has emerged as a key source of ...
He has developed a way of talking about security and foreign policy that is now the lingua franca in government and think-tank circles. ...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - African scientists with ground-breaking research proposals will get training opportunities, financial and technical support to ...
A think tank called the Public Health Advocacy Institute, housed at Northeastern University's School of Law, sent a list of nearly 50 obesity-related legal ...
Pessimism about a precipitous slowdown is dissipated by the government's top think thank, as the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) reported Tuesday ...
It's a think tank addressing tomorrow's information security concerns, a brainy conglomerate set against the brawny landscape that is the city of ...
... revive the local economy rather than using a strategy that won't work, Chen Po-chih (陳博志), chairman of Taiwan thinktank, said in a recent interview. ...
by JJ Hensley - Dec. 2, 2008 12:00 AM Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has repeatedly dismissed criticism of his office and its policies as the work of ...
... nation's most disadvantaged children, to tackle a cycle of deprivation which has its roots in poor parenting, according to a report from two thinktanks. ...
AMSTERDAM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The Dutch government's macro-economic think tank CPB denied on Monday a newspaper report indicating it expects Dutch purchasing ...
... the terrorist groups who perpetrate such criminal and barbaric acts," he said in a speech to the Royal United Services Institute, a defence thinktank. ...
The global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria does not have enough money and global thinktanks are questioning the future of Unaids. ...
Carlos Pascual, director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution think tank, said Obama's comments were an implicit rebuke to Bush and set the tone ...
By Maryrose Fison | 15:52:45 | 01 December 2008 A report by think tank Policy Exchange highlights how advisers can play a role in facilitating philanthropy ...
Browne, a former journalist for the BBC, Times and the Observer, has contributed a wide range of papers on immigration for centre-right thinktanks as well ...
President Ma Ying-jeou welcomed Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and Richard Bush, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan ...
Most of the laptop bags that catch my eye are just as stylish as they are practical, but think tank Photo creates their bags to serve a different purpose, ...
... first time in nearly 10 years, will fire a gradual recovery when they start spending again next year, an influential think tank predicted on Tuesday. ...
The World Bank has predicted China's growth rate will fall by 1.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent next year. State thinktanks also expect falls in China's GDP ...
"I like to think of the town hall meting as a think tank," said Cline. "It's a great place to come and share ideas about what you want the public education ...
A business think tank is calling for strong measures to ensure New Zealand houses are healthier to live in. The Business Council for Sustainable Development ...
The bright spot on the financial horizon is that - in theory at least - after a period of disinfection a new, sanitised world awaits us. ...
There are about 3500 prisoners in Ireland. If we used prison at the same rate as they do in America, we would have 35000. If we incarcerated with the same ...
Eastern European economies should brace themselves for a slowdown in growth after their business model has been exposed as weak, think-tank Vienna Institute ...
ALBANY, NY - Former New York Gov. George Pataki is joining a Cold War foundation to push national policy to end America's dependence on oil producers ...
1 issue facing Wisconsin, no topic has dominated the answers the way the economy does now, according to the institute, a conservative-oriented think tank. ...
Training company Partnerships in Management, based at the Media Centre, Northumberland Street, is pulling together a group of business managers to examine ...
Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group thinktank, said Ethiopia may choose to seal the border with troops and air power. ...
He made the remarks at the Islamic Azad University system's first specialist forum, which was also attended by members of the think tank Support Committee, ...

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Alan Guttmacher Institute
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
American Institute for Research
American Legislative Exchange Council
American Savings Education Council
American Tax Policy Institute
Americans Back in Charge Foundation
ANSER
Asia Pacific Policy Center
The Aspen Institute
The Atlantic Council of the U.S.
Battelle Memorial Institute
Biophysical Society
British American Security Information Council
Brookings Institution
The Capital Research Center
Carnegie Endowment for Intl. Peace
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Cato Institute
Center for Defense Information
Center for Democracy
The Center for Equal Opportunity
Center for Immigration Studies
Center for Intl. Environmental Law
Center for Intl. Policy
Center for Intl. Private Enterprise
Center for National Policy
Center for Policy Alternatives
Center for Public Integrity
Center for Public Justice
Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments
Center for Strategic & Intl. Studies
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
Center on Policy Attitudes & the Program on Intl. Policy Attitudes
Chemical & Biological Arms Control Inst.
The CNA Corp.
Committee for Economic Development
Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Congressional Institute Inc.
Consumer Energy Council of America Research Foundation
Council for Excellence in Government
Council on Competitiveness
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Hemispheric Affairs. (COHA)
Economic Policy Institute
Economic Strategy Institute
The Eisenhower Institute
Employee Benefit Research Institute
Employment Policies Institute
Environmental & Energy Study Institute
Environmental Law Institute
Ethics & Public Policy Center
The European Institute
Fair Government Foundation
Forum for International Policy
The Foundation Center
Foundation for Future Leadership
Foundation for Public Affairs
The Freedom Alliance
The Fund for Peace
George C. Marshall Institute
George Meany Center for Labor Studies/The National Labor College
German Marshall Fund of the United States
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute
IIT Research Institute
Initiative & Referendum Inst.
Institute for Alternative Futures
Institute for Defense Analyses
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Institute for Health Policy Solutions
Institute for Intl. Economics
Institute for Justice
Institute for Policy Studies
(IRET) Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
Institute of Gas Technology
Institute of Medicine
Internet Policy Inst.
Intl. Foundation for Election Systems
Intl. Law Institute
The Intl. Management & Development Institute
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Johns Hopkins Univ. Foreign Policy Institute (SAIS)
Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
The Justice Policy Inst.
The Leadership Institute
The Lexington Institute
The Lindesmith Center/Drug Policy Foundation
Logistics Management Institute
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
The Middle East Institute
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Public Administration
National Center for Policy & Research for Women and Families
National Center for Policy Analysis
The National Center for Public Policy Research
National Center on Education & the Economy
National Democratic Institute for Intl. Affairs
National Environmental Policy Institute
National Health Policy Forum
National Institute for Public Policy
National Policy Assn.
National Research Council
National Security Archive (GWU)
New America Foundation
New Directions for Policy
Northeast-Midewest Institute
The Philanthropy Roundtable
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Population Referance Bureau
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Progress & Freedom Foundation
Progressive Policy Institute
Public Service Research Foundation
RAND
Resources for the Future
SRI Intl. [Stanford Research Institute]
Tax Foundation
Urban Institute
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Woodrow Wilson Intl. Center for Scholars
World Resources Institute
Worldwatch Institute

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