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Do Think Tanks Matter?

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Do Think Tanks Matter?

By Donald E. Abelson

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It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an impact continues to be 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 since the latter part of the t...Show more

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9780773553248

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Published year

2018

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