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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

Sat. November 07, 2009

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San Diego's real estate market will be a bit better in 2010, a Washington think tank said. San Diego and Washington, DC, are the only two ...
"It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy ...
It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy ...
While he does that, a member of an independent think tank believes Obama should use the review as leverage to force Afghan President Karzai to clean up ...

Jon Boone reports from Kabul on the attack, while Paul Cornish, head of international security at the thinktank
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Now we are a global Military Power because some silly US think-tank
said Ken Ferree, a senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a DC think tank
Intel quickly received some vocal support from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank
If you don't count DC, according to Gary Gates of the Williams Institute, a think tank
The two measures were proposed by the Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank
4 (Xinhua) -- Emerging economies, including South Korea, are likely to face a financial bubble mainly due to the weakening US dollar, a local think tank
The Center For American Progress, a DC-based think tank
MARLTON, NJ--(Business Wire)-- The National Association of Recording Merchandisers officially announces the launch of its Digital think tank
“It's brutal,'' said Michael Krepon of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank
Sweden's economy and ETF have improved enough that a leading thinktank
Rival thinktanks
One in four of the 150000 gay and lesbian couples who were surveyed by a UCLA think tank
Digital agency PRWD has launched the first phase of a website for recently established think tank
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About Ethisphere Institute The research-based Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think tank
'It can only be described as a terrible mess,' said one of the panelists at today's think tank
That's the question Richard Lee from the Hall Institute, a New Jersey think tank
USAK House, which is the first think tank
This election-day TTR identifies new benefits from health care reform, warns of pernicious behavior from the credit card industry, argues for a stronger ...
The think tank
... provocations this year angered its ally China but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, an influential think-tank said tuesday. ...
... provocations this year angered its ally China but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, an influential think-tank said tuesday. ...
By fitsnews • on October 30, 2009 By Senators Glenn McConnell and Hugh Leatherman * We feel compelled to respond to the flawed research that the South ...
Rohan Samarajiva is Chairman and CEO of LIRNE Asia, a think-tank that has a mission to understand the laws, policies and regulations that enable people to ...
thinktank wasn'ta typical affiliate network event. It's exclusive, and all invited affiliates (there is an application process) are treated ...
Legendary US billionaire and philanthropist George Soros is to set up a think-tank to help develop new economic theories in the wake of the global financial ...
One of Canada's leading social policy think-tanks is closing its doors because lack of funding. The Canadian Policy Research Networks announced on its ...
The board heard bleak testimony from an economist and two think tanks about Michigan's economic tailspin, and suggestions for reversing it. ...
Pakistan yesterday embarked on a plan to create a think-tank comprising a select group of bright and young scholars for provision of innovative solutions to ...
The new Prime Source thinktank is a real-time, social media platform made up of eight discussion groups chaired by ten senior executives who are experts in ...
That's the message a think tank is trying to convey with the Purpose Prize, an award that commemorates the work of baby boomers over 60 who are working to ...
... it can not go it alone with its so-called Af-Pak policy," said Uday Bhaskar, director of the National Maritime Foundation, a New Delhi-based thinktank.
OTTAWA - One of Canada's leading social policy think-tanks is closing its doors because lack of funding. The well-respected Canadian Policy Research ...
The Center on Poverty and Urban Issues is part of the Roosevelt institution, a student branch of a national think tank. Each year, the Center's co-policy ...




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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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