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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

Sat. September 04, 2010

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... to a Labor Day weekend report on state-level jobs and wages issued Friday by Connecticut Voices for children, a New Haven-based policy thinktank. ...
Bragdon said 50 percent came from competitive foundation grants awarded by a national network of free-market think tanks. The rest, he said, ...
"It was like being in a big artistic think tank. I really got a huge thrill looking around and seeing what other people were doing, especially my girl April ...
... foundations and political action committees, poured $250 million or so into charities, think-tanks and political campaigns between 1998 and 2008. ...

3, GNA - The Council for Afrika International, a UK-based think-tank on Friday linked the unrest in Mozambique over rising cost of living to outmoded models ...
When Peter Orszag announced that he was leaving the Obama White House to join a think tank, we had a feeling it wasn't the last we'd heard from him. ...
An aerial view of Kenya pipeline company oil depot in industrial area, Nairobi. The government will have to rope in the private sector to be able to build ...
"It was like being in a big artistic think tank. I really got a huge thrill looking around and seeing what other people were doing, especially my girl April ...
US Think Tanks, specifically, the Kennan Institute and Center For Strategic And International Studies (CSIS), explore various aspects of labor Migration in ...
Islamabad: At the 5th round of the Chaopraya Dialogue - Track II talks at Bangkok held between leading opinion makers from India and Pakistan from 28-30 ...
According to a leaked report from a German think tank, this could be the year that witnesses the arrival of peak oil: that is, a global maximum in petroleum ...
Editor's note: Lauren Damme is a policy analyst for the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation, a think tank ...
Their donations to museums and think tanks give the impression they are part of the cultural elite, a seminal segment of the charitable establishment that ...
The Libertarian think tank's study looked at 11 parameters including costs per mile, congestion, pavement condition, deficient bridges and fatalities. ...
Northern Ireland needs to look beyond the Troubles and address its "crippling level of social breakdown", according to an independent think tank. ...
Northern Ireland needs to look beyond the Troubles and address its "crippling level of social breakdown", according to an independent think tank. ...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has attacked the Institute of Fiscal Studies' Budget analysis, claiming it fails to take into account other Government ...
A fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs has criticised the Equality and Human Rights Commission for pushing the Treasury to show it has considered the ...
The think tank involved over 60 people from Primary and Community Health services across Australia and developed recommendations for the incoming Federal ...
Petr Cibulka Jr. and Economists Pavel Kohout and Jan Schiesser announced the formation of a new think tank at an Aug. 31 press conference. ...
Jim Talent is going to work for a conservative think tank group in Missouri. The Show-Me Institute says it has hired Brenda Talent as its executive director ...
HARRISBURG - A Harrisburg think tank urges state lawmakers not to go along with calls by the natural gas industry ...
Lobbyists, foundations and think tanks backed by Koch Industries are at the heart of climate-change denial, said to be of particular concern to the brothers ...
The Kochs would go on to establish and fund a vast network of overlapping think tanks, institutes, foundations, media outlets, and lobby groups that would ...
Shares of tech and military think tank SAIC (SAI) are up 46 cents, or 3%, at $15.79, after the company this afternoon beat fiscal Q2 profit ...
Two Canadian think tanks have offered radically different views on the state of the Canadian housing industry. ...
As right-wing Think Tanks continue to claim that California's clean energy legislation is hampering the state's economy, federal EPA Administrator Jared ...
To shape its plans, Essar is forming a centralised retail think-tank at a group level to strategise the conglomerate's future course of action. ...
... across a table with each other, and that has meant quiet times for the dozens of Middle East analysts and advocates in Washington's think tank world. ...
She joins columnist Julian Glover and Andrew Lilico, chief economist at the Policy Exchange thinktank, for a discussion of choice and the role it plays in ...
... cut the most jobs during the recession earned more than their peers, according to a study being released today by a liberal think tank in Washington. ...
With no significant "threats" seen in the coming months, analysts at First Metro Investment Corp and University of Asia and the Pacific ...
Quoting the Food, agriculture and natural resources Policy Analysis (FANRPAN), an agricultural-related think-tank, the paper said it is unfortunate that ...
STOCKHOLM, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Sweden's leading economic think tank raised its outlook for the Nordic country's output in 2010 to 4.3 percent and for 2011 to ...
The think tank Minnesota 2020 is very concerned about the rapid rise of property taxes in the state. They brought their message to Duluth on Tuesday. ...
The chairman of the pro-government think tank, the Bauhinia Foundation, says overseas investors should not be banned from buying property in Hong Kong. ...
A new study released Tuesday by the CD Howe Institute says an American-style housing crash is unlikely in Canada. (July 6, 2010) By Tony Wong Business ...
The Brookings institutions, a Washington-based think tank, announced Monday that Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn will join the ...
A member of a conservative think-tank says the jury is out on whether President Obama will work with Republicans if they take control of Congress this ...
Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that promotes ...




resources


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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