Think tank traditions: policy research and the politics of ideas

Abstract

1. Introduction Think tanks, policy advice and governance - Diane Stone Part I The international dimension 2. Institutes of International Affairs in foreign policy making, opinion mobilisation and unofficial diplomacy - Inderjeet Parmar 3. Think tanks beyond nation states - Diane Stone 4. European Union think tanks: Generating ideas, analysis and debate - Heidi Ullrich Part II European think tank traditions 5. Think tanks in Germany - Martin Thunert 6. Italy: Think tanks and the political system - Sonia Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli 7. French think tanks in comparative perspective - Catherine Fieschi and John Gaffney 8. Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe - Mark Sandle Part III. Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition 9. The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes - Ming Chen Shai with Diane Stone 10. Think tanks in Japan: A new alternative - Makiko Ueno 11. Think tanks and Malaysian development - Su Ming Khoo 12. Think tanks in developing countries: Lessons from Argentina - Miguel Braun, Antonio Cicioni and Nicholas J. Durote Part IV. The Anglo-American tradition 13. The business of ideas: A look at the think tank industry in the United States - Don Abelson 14. A 'hollowed out' tradition? British think tanks in the twenty-first century - Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett 15. Australian think tanks - Ian Marsh and Diane Stone 16. Three decades of Canadian think tanks: Evolving institutions, conditions and strategies - Evert A. Lundqvist Afterword Soft power, global agendas - William Wallace -- .