LEADER 04353nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910815529903321 005 20240131153332.0 010 $a0-7735-6990-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773569904 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244883 035 $a(OCoLC)180773114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119946 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209255 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259380 035 $a(PQKB)11729308 035 $a(DE-B1597)657141 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773569904 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/t50bj9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243577 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244883 100 $a20150424d2002|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDo Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes$b[electronic resource] 210 $aMontra?l, QC, CAN$cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d20020101 210 $cMcGill-Queen's University Press 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2316-2 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tTables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAcronyms -- $tIntroduction -- $tSurveying the Think Tank Landscape in the United States and Canada -- $tThinking about Think Tanks: A Conceptual Framework -- $tIn the Arena: Opportunities, Constraints, and Incentives for Think Tanks in the United States and Canada -- $tCompeting in the Marketplace of Ideas: The Strategies of Think Tanks -- $tPublic Visibility and Policy Relevance: Assessing the Influence of Think Tanks -- $tOn the Road to the White House: Presidential Candidates and the Think Tanks That Advised Them -- $tPolicy Experts or Policy Instruments? Think Tanks and the Debate over Constitutional Reform in Canada -- $tConclusion: Policy Influence, Policy Relevance, and the Future of Think Tanks in Canada, the United States, and Beyond -- $tA Profile of Selected American Think Tanks -- $tA Profile of Selected Canadian Think Tanks -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDo Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored. Abelson studies the experiences of think tanks in the United States, where they have become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where their numbers have grown considerably in recent years but where, compared to their U.S. counterparts, they enjoy less prominence in policy-making. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation (that is, getting issues on the political agenda) and policy formation and implementation (actually affecting the outcome of policies already on the political agenda), he argues that think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle. 606 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS$2bisac 606 $aDecision-Making & Problem Solving$2bisac 606 $aPolicy sciences$zUnited States 606 $aResearch institutes$zCanada 606 $aResearch institutes 606 $aSocial Sciences - General$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 615 7$aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS 615 7$aDecision-Making & Problem Solving 615 0$aPolicy sciences 615 0$aResearch institutes 615 0$aResearch institutes 615 7$aSocial Sciences - General 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a320/.6/072073 700 $aAbelson$b Donald E$0556092 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815529903321 996 $aDo Think Tanks Matter$9986095 997 $aUNINA