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… until the 1990s, policy research institutes had been accorded … considerably more profitable
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… a range of activities and organisations. A working definition might be that a think tank is a
policy research organisation or grouping, existing within government, higher education or the …

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tanks from a century-long tradition of investing in the production of objective policy research. …

… think tanks or policy research institutions to identify, develop, shape, and at times implement,
policy ideas. … In the first section of this study, a brief history of think tanks in the United States …

… fact that a think-tank carries out its activities because it was … financially autonomous from
government, political parties or … of policy-making processes, to the cultivation of political culture …

… “current conventional political science builds up expectations … of policy advice, researchers
have often used the traditional … specialized think tanks that concentrate on particular topics, …

… critical to the growth and survival of think tanks: a tradition of corporate, foundation, and
individual … Think tank managers hope that the ideas in their studies will be read and acted upon. …

… can differ substantially from one political culture to another. In … of think tanks and government
policy research units to build into … functions of think tanks: 1) generating ideas; 2) policy-…