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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
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The Thinker

Fri. July 25, 2008

think tanks:
Moreover, the Heritage Foundation has always had an uneasy relationship with neoconservatism. (Russell Kirk delivered a famous speech at the Heritage ...

... Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute-called itself 'neoconservative,' a worldview that has harnessed the full force of the US military ...

In a teleconference organized by the Center For Strategic And International Studies, Malik Naveed Khan, the inspector general of police for NWFP, ...

... importance attached to it by the Pakistani people," according to the report released last week by the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI). ...

... ambiguity regarding Iran's nuclear buildup," said Laurent Murawiec, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan policy research organization Hudson Institute. ...

... Hail Mary pass to secure a legacy," said Michael Rubin, a former Iran analyst at the Pentagon who is now working at the American Enterprise Institute. ...

People For The American Way, one of the groups representing the city of Fredericksburg, did not respond to CBN News' request for comments. ...

Click play to hear more on this case from John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. The three-judge panel for the US 4th Circuit Court of ...

They had Milton Friedman's birthday party on Capitol Hill when he turned 90, and so this administration, even though places like the Cato Institute are ...

NK: Look, I don't have more faith in the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute. I generally believe that the people- LG: I think the NEA ...

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The stark high street figures came as a leading think-tank issued a warning that consumer spending over the whole of next year is set to fall - in what ...
On the other side of the issue is MEITI and Japan's energy think-tank who use a statistical model that indicates crude oil prices have a speculative premium ...
Todd Myers, of the free-market think tank Washington Policy Center, welcomed efforts to better account for economic costs and benefits. ...

Aldrin has won some backers, including a prominent Washington think tank and the backers of an alternate rocket design created by moonlighting NASA ...
The GFF, whose membership would cut across the entire nation, other than just a few intellectuals as in the case of other think tanks, would thrive on such ...
... official Shanghai Securities News reported, citing Li Yang, an economist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a central government think-tank. ...
... official Shanghai Securities News reported, citing Li Yang, an economist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a central government think-tank. ...
BPM think tank 2008 attendees will participate in at least three unique, highly interactive BPM Roundtables over the course of two days. ...
Then he takes over from Nick Boles as the second director of one of the country's leading thinktanks. And now he will be shaping Tory policy for Boris ...
THE Heidelberg community is one step closer to getting a Bendigo Community Bank in the wake of the National Australia Bank skipping town. ...
Economic think tanks are as unable as the government to come to a consensus on the implementation of income tax cuts. The government's agenda, based on ...
A former national journalist, Anthony is currently Director of leading think tank Policy Exchange and has written reports on issues ranging from the NHS to ...
Aquila Way, which runs Elizabeth House, was one of 12 charities shortlisted for the awards run by Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for social justice thinktank. ...
Better than First Class. In addition to tax breaks, the super-rich are getting discounts when the take private jets, according to a report by the Institute ...
A Vancouver think tank is urging immediate and controversial action to ease the labor shortage in the Alberta oil sands. The Fraser Institue says ...
Boris Johnson has appointed the director of a leading Tory think tank as his director of policy at City Hall. Anthony Browne of Policy Exchange, ...
The think-tank also forecasted inflation to remain above the target range of 1%-3% for the next 12 months, while unemployment is anticipated to increase ...
The respected think tank has been looking at an array of events and scenarios in the UK and considered how the situation may pan out in the short to medium ...
Britain's illegal immigrant problem will only be solved if the government allows non-citizens to purchase their legalised status, a thinktank believes. ...
Britain is heading for an economic "horror movie" and will struggle to avoid recession, a think tank claimed yesterday. Ernst & Young's ITEM Club forecast ...
The latest strategy paper from the Kokoda Foundation think-tank proposes that Australia buy two remote sensing satellites to remove the nation's reliance on ...
AUTHOR DOUG FINE wants to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint and live "off the grid." "Farewell, My Subaru" is his good-humored account of ...
The Irish government and all the opposition parties are agreed that whatever cuts are made in the state's current spending due to falling revenues and the ...
We all want high-quality public services. Up to a point, we are all ready to pay for them. We need to be convinced that the money we pay is going to the ...
The proposal came from the Government's own economic think-tank, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). It said a tax on all property could make ...
Any statesperson should aspire to a personal think tank. Prime Ministers can call on the Downing Street policy unit, while retirees Jimmy Carter, ...
The ruling, which could have repercussions for other charitable political thinktanks, follows allegations by right-of-centre bloggers, newspapers and the ...
A think-tank with close links to Gordon Brown was today found to have breached charity law by getting involved in party politics. ...
There is no evidence to suggest Gordon Brown used a charitable think-tank to "further his political aspirations," a Charity Commission inquiry has found. ...

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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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