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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

Fri. November 20, 2009

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The policy think tank, Danquah Institute, has revealed that Ghana's economy shrunk by nearly US$2 billion this year. The first time this has happened in ...
The think tank -- where White House adviser Jared Bernstein spent years developing ideas found in the $787 billion economic stimulus plan he oversees ...
On Tuesday, the same day Palin announced passing the 1-million-Facebook-mark, the conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation crossed the 75000 mark for ...
A TOP think-tank sharply raised its forecasts for the global recovery yesterday, and gave a surprisingly upbeat assessment of SA's economy over the next two ...

Maritime piracy - Comoros has set up a think-tank to devise a reprisal strategy against maritime piracy, said Lieutenant Colonel Ismael Mogne Daho, ...
This New Jersey based think tank sent out a press release on the seventeenth of November 2009 that states that their studies, which implicate vaccines as ...
In a speech at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, Fisher suggested that banks divest their proprietary trading units that place the deposit and ...
The think tank -- where White House adviser Jared Bernstein spent years developing ideas found in the $787 billion economic stimulus plan he oversees ...
A think tank has been launched aimed at changing the face of Waltham Forest over the next 10 years. Vision 2020 was launched by Muslim ...
Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts-based progressive think tank, yesterday released a 42-page report titled Globalizing the culture wars: US ...
In the fifth Learning Executive think tank of the 2009 series, Tom Clancy, VP of education at EMC, and Ernie Kahane, the Director of Training strategy at ...
Each year the ITB Berlin Convention was able to build on its position as the leading think tank of the global tourism industry and in 2009 recorded its ...
The think tank is celebrating its 25th anniversary. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post) Asked what has allowed Colorado's free-market think tank, ...
The think-tank also urged the Bank of England to develop a strategy for unwinding its massive monetary stimulus measures and warned that ultra-low interest ...
The fifth International Turkish-African Congress, which brings together government officials, diplomats, representatives of Think Tanks, civil society ...
Canon's innovative think tank System makes it easier for consumers to print more wisely. The think tank System is standard in many of Canon's all-in-one and ...
By Jim Stratton, Sentinel Staff Writer Florida's tax system is among the worst in the nation in terms of pushing the financial burden onto low and ...
In the wake of the tragic killing of 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas, a number of Britain-based Think Tanks, newspapers, ...
After a trio of think-tanks put forward their thoughts on decentralisation, Robert Hill asks how bold the next government will be. ...
A report by Welsh think-tank the Bevan Foundation, called Paying the Price of Being Poor, says that more needs to be done to help disadvantaged families in ...
... tax system ranks among the ten-worst in the nation for low and middle-income residents, according to a new study from a Washington, DC-based think tank. ...
Commenters range from lobbies, think tanks, schools, phone companies, citizens, and the likes of the Waukesha County Department of Emergency Preparedness. ...
At the beginning of August the think tank Oxford Economics (OE) predicted t hat residential property..... A new report by global Construction Perspectives ...
A new study by the nonpartisan think tank, the Pew Center on the States, places Wisconsin in a fiscal situation very nearly as dire as that of California, ...
From Liberty Suites: Just a quick reminder that the LGBT think tank Session is tuesday 5:00pm at the Stonewall Library. Please see below for more ...
think tank Directors also credit their own institutes with substantial influence. Abelson took a hard look at the true influence of Think Tanks in the US ...
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has failed to meet population growth projections set about a decade ago by a regional economic think-tank, ...
This week's TTR brings some surprising data about faith-based programs, some unpleasant facts about economic mobility and how to improve it, ...
A private SECTOR think tank yesterday pressed the Trade department to move faster on a free trade pact with the European Union (EU), citing research which ...
The influential centre-left pressure group Compass has reopened the question of whether Gordon Brown should lead Labour into the general election. ...
London (AP) -- A British think tank says the country's prisons could be breeding a new generation of terrorists. A report by the Quilliam Foundation says ...
children don't arrive with an instruction manual and so the left-wing London-based think tank Demos has released a report that it hopes will help parents ...
State and local governments in the US may be forced to cut 900000 jobs next year without additional help from the federal government, ...
SPRINGFIELD -- When it comes to money, Illinois is among the worst-off states in the country, a national think tank reported Wednesday. ...
But the right-wing think tank that published conservative author Dave Gaubatz's call for a backlash against the "Muslim community" has now scrubbed the line ...
The Department of Health has taken the opportunity to blow its own trumpet by publicising a US think tank's report that ranks the NHS as one of the best ...
OTTAWA â€Â" An additional 15800 troops are needed to properly secure Kandahar so that reconstruction efforts and training of the Afghan Army can continue, ...
parents who discipline their children are giving their offspring the best chance in life, according to a report by Demos, the progressive think-tank. ...
Speaking at the Bruegel think-tank
Seoul, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economy remains in the "recovery phase" as exports, consumption and other indicators are rebounding fast, ...




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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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