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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

Thu. March 11, 2010

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Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for greater interaction between the think-tanks and academia of Pakistan and China to further ...
A new report from a Washington think tank says Nevada ranks dead last in getting federal dollars for state programs. And, the Brookings Institution says, ...
L), today announced one of four program tracks for the upcoming IP think tank event on March 24-25, 2010, in San Francisco, California. ...
... are being ignored and policymakers must do more to ensure that patient safety is maintained, according to the Stockholm Network, a European think tank. ...

According to leading economic think tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), the UK economy grew by 0.3% in the ...
Forgot to post this week's think tank until now. So for those who didn't notice the update on the sidebar, here 'tis: (1) Three Economists try to figure out ...
That's according to a conservative think tank which says the Sembler Project is bad for the state. Members of the SC Policy Council met at the State House ...
... from Britpop heroes Blur--their last album was "think tank" in 2003--singer and bandleader Damon Albarn has hardly been absent from the music scene. ...
A report issued by two think tanks that call for the reduction in the number of Ohio school districts has drawn criticism ...
At the first meeting of a newly appointed Economic Council, an advisory think tank to the Polish cabinet, the need to trigger mechanisms to stabilise the ...
For each fuel, said the think tank, there would be less incentive to produce more than the volume guaranteed for use. "We will be looking for a long-term ...
This marked a stark contrast to the 1970s, when Republicans had emerged as the party of ideas after investing in think tanks like CATO and the American ...
In 2000, Lynn Scarlett left the Reason Foundation, a Libertarian think tank, to serve eight years in the Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of the ...
Lord Lawson of Blaby: No, like most thinktanks, not all but like most, we do not publish a list, because if donors wish to remain anonymous, for whatever ...
Whether they walked the red carpet (Nicole Richie and Joel Madden), partied with Elton John (Jeremy Piven) or sat home wiping up dog vomit during the ...
The Washington-based think tank, which tracks voting trends in the black community, also found that African American voters are following this year's ...
A University of Wisconsin professor who signed a personal contract with a conservative think tank last summer is now being accused of aiding ...
Researchers with the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, found that Illinois received $19.1 billion in 2008 in federal funds tied to census ...
Under legal changes proposed by the New Local Government Network thinktank, people convicted of renting out their social home would be upgraded from a civil ...
The Center For American Progress is a think-tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through thoughts and ideas, which will hopefully spur action. ...
But visiting fellow at the Bruegel think tank, Zsolt Darvas, says the fund is unnecessary. "I don't believe there is a threat to the eurozone," he told ...
In a speech at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think-tank, Papandreou said that a wider crisis would cause the Euro to weaken against the dollar in ...
BY DENNIS GADIL A New York-based economic think tank said the new administration must improve tax effort by two percentage points this year to avoid ...
We really need to take a critical look and ask even more critical questions about the Pundits and think tanks and especially news entities which are ...
The report, by the Million+ thinktank, claims that business, the economy and equal opportunities will all suffer if elite universities grab the bulk of ...
Moving huge quantities of electricity over vast distances could become easier over the next decade if utilities adopt a ...
The report on elementary schools, put out annually by the conservative think-tank, ranks Rainbow District School Board 4.8 out of 10. ...
Many of those involved in our fledgling think tank went on to bigger and better things with high paying jobs. Having acquired the domain name personally, ...
... a degree in history and then working at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a prestigious government-affiliated think tank, for his master's degree. ...
prime minister Kevin Rudd needs to improve Australia's stagnating relationship with Indonesia, an international policy think tank says. ...
Open Europe, a broadly EUrosceptic think tank based in London, has estimated what each EU country would be required to pay if Greece was unable to refinance ...
We are think-tank presidents -- one conservative, the other progressive. When our views converge, we know we've hit on an ...
We are think-tank presidents -- one conservative, the other progressive. When our views converge, we know we've hit on an ...
A civil liberties/privacy think tank, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission in ...
Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. But there is one place where nothing much changed after May 1979; a lost world where strikes are commonplace and ...
In what one think tank calls the biggest educational movement since the state adopted a charter-school law, a group of local foundations has teamed up on a ...
March 05 2010 - The UK's VAT exemption on items such as food should be scrapped to help rescue the public finances ...
Bright Automotive, a spinoff from the not-for-profit think tank and consulting firm Rocky Mountain Institute that's looking to build a ...
The think tank expects the Polish economy to grow by 2.5 per cent in 2010. WIIW also said there was light at the end of the tunnel for struggling Ukraine as ...
The think tank also mentions the data of the National Statistical Institute about the business climate of the Bulgarian economy showing that it has retained ...




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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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