Abstract
This study determines the influence of the main Spanish think tanks in the national and international media during the period from 2004 to 2018. We use quantitative analysis on the published contents (from Factiva®) of the main Spanish think tanks between 1st January 2004 and 31st December 2018 in national and international media. The results suggest that the impact of think tanks has increased since the crisis period and has remained constant thereafter, thereby confirming the relevant role of think tanks in public opinion. Moreover, during the process of economic policy design, there has been a significant increase in the hegemony of a few think tanks’ influence in media debates.
Highlights
Think tanks, known as factory of ideas, (Abelson, 2009), are political actors who, based on research and analysis, aim to influence and advise the political elite and society in general (Mac Gann & Weaver, 2000; Misztal, 2012; Stone, 2004)
think tank’ (TT) became relevant in the 1970s in the United States when they decided to support political parties with a conservative ideology to control academic debates and the media that were influenced by other trends at that time (Saura, 2015)
(P4) Recovery stage: this period includes the years between 2013 and 2015 and some critical incidents such as the consolidation of the financial rescue process, with the conversion of practically all the savings banks into banks and their absorption in the Spanish banking system through the intervention of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB). It includes the subscription of the MoU, under the supervision of the troika formed by the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the beginning of the recovery of the Spanish economy taking place at this stage
Summary
Known as factory of ideas, (Abelson, 2009), are political actors who, based on research and analysis, aim to influence and advise the political elite and society in general (Mac Gann & Weaver, 2000; Misztal, 2012; Stone, 2004). Their role is to transform political debates (McGann, 2007), which is why they stand out as essential actors in the political environment (Barani & Sciortino, 2011), and their importance has been growing steadily in recent decades (Pautz, 2010). The role of TTs as political figures is based on ‘the formulation and promotion of ideas as a dominant paradigm’ (Montobbio, 2013, p. 18), since they are prominent interlocutors, and mediators of ideas and introducers of debates in the public agenda (McGann, Viden, & Rafferty, 2014)
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