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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

Tue. February 09, 2010

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The government plans to transfer jurisdiction of a think tank to the Unification Ministry for closer policy coordination after its controversial report ...
New Delhi: As many as 100 developing countries lack biosafety norms to test the risks posed by genetically modified (GM) crops to human health, ...
... to exploit," said Cindy Arnson of the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, a Washington think tank that studies national and world affairs. ...
Ferguson, who also has high-level links to the Tory Party, with a seat on the board of the Right-wing think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies, ...

The CDM Media team will host the CIO Think Tanks Session and has opened registration to qualified executives on www.cdmmedia.com/ciothinktank. ...
Mr Mawdsley, director of the think-tank, said there would be efficiencies if a body was brought back into government control, including, perhaps, ...
A life settlement think tank is defending the value of the life settlement securitization concept. The American Council of Life Insurers, ...
Speaking at the latest policy launch of the Centre for social justice this morning, the former Conservative Party leader and chairman of the think-tank ...
Norm Coleman has been hitting the trail to promote the new think tank he's heading up. The American Action Network hopes to take advantage of the recent ...
7--AUGUSTA -- A liberal-leaning think tank estimates 7000 to 10000 jobs would be lost in Maine if the Legislature approves Gov. John Baldacci's proposal to ...
Beijing -- A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic ...
Yesterday, during lulls in Puppy Bowl VI I caught some of the pre-Super Bowl festivities on CBS. And for the second straight straight year President Obama ...
Freshmen on academic probation can find help by taking advantage of a series of workshops being offered by the think tank from Feb. ...
ALSO: SBA-backed lending continues to rebound; think tank organizes TV debates; Compuware will rate Web sites of Super Bowl advertisers; Ann Arbor Spark ...
The threat of cyber warfare is on a par with that of nuclear warfare in the 1950s, according to a study published by the International Institute for ...
THE State's top economic think-tank has suffered a blow to its reputation after admitting that mistakes were made in its controversial ...
The aviation industry, along with shipping, benefits from a zero-rated VAT on fuel. 'A lot of expenditure is not consistent with a low-carbon economy,' says ...
The think tank also projected that the country's market for software will expand by 470 billion won as a result of the introduction of the device. ...
China will return to double-digit growth this year, according to a state-run think tank, which sees economic expansion in 2010 hitting 10pc. ...
The think tank also projected that the country's market for software contents will expand by 470 billion won as a result of the introduction of the device. ...
This is how alto saxophonist Will Campbell's debut as leader, think tank, runs the gauntlet in the tough and crowded musical world where post-bop alto ...
Beijing, Feb 7 (Reuters) - An official think tank has forecast China's gross domestic product (GDP) will expand around 10 percent in 2010, ...
The main themes of the submissions made and discussions conducted during the Think Tanks Forum of the Islamic Countries, held between Jan. ...
Would Richard Adams kindly comment upon whether he believes that the following promises of candidate Obama were "thinktank source material" or, rather, ...
The organisation is another right-wing think-tank to have benefited from funding given by ExxonMobil in recent years. A large British contingent was present ...
The pint-sized Bengal wicketkeeper became the unlikeliest of debutants for India in a while, with the team thinktank left with no choice but to punt the ...
A New York investment bank and a Washington think tank chose silicon Valley to kick off their campaign for "The Next American economy" last week. ...
New Delhi: Even as India shows signs of softening its stand on Taliban, London-based thinktank and one of world's leading authorities on political-military ...
... the sand and not addressed the tough underlying problems," Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Center for European Reform think tank in London, said. ...
Minnesota 2020 is a think tank started by Matt Entenza, a former state representative who is now running for governor. Both on Wednesday and friday morning, ...
Asked whether AAN's leaders see gaps left by other conservative Think Tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, Holtz-Eakin ...
"It's a leaderless movement," says former House majority leader Dick Armey, a Texas Republican who heads FreedomWorks, a conservative think tank working ...
In its latest Manitoba economic profile and forecast, the Calgary-based think-tank's senior economist predicts Manitoba will post economic growth of only ...
By Jim Coyle Queen's Park F ending off the nearest thing this city has to a local saint to win a Legislature seat Thursday night was probably the easy part ...
"It's a leaderless movement," says former House majority leader Dick Armey, a Texas Republican who heads FreedomWorks, a conservative think tank working ...
Shanghai: China's GDP growth is expected to reach 11.5 percent in the first quarter while the pace of the consumer price index's rise could accelerate to ...
The think tank, to be called the American Action Network, will comprise both a 501(c)3 research arm and a 501(c)4 advocacy arm. The CAP was founded in 2003 ...
A leading Irish think tank has published recommendations outlining how the country's municipal waste could be managed in a more cost effective and less ...
A US based think-tank published a report expressing concern over Ecuador's ties to the FARC and the Andean nation's allegedly increasing reputation as ...
Reiterating what he said there in 2007, Casey returned to the Brookings Institution, one of the country's oldest Think Tanks, Jan. ...




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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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