Do Think Tanks Matter?: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, Second Edition

by Donald Abelson and Donald E. Abelson

Book Overview

It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation and many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773536086
• ISBN13: 9780773536081
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"