Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy

✍ Scribed by Donald E. Abelson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A Capitol Idea reveals the extent to which think tanks in the United States have become active and vocal participants in the foreign policy-making process. In this timely exploration, Donald Abelson re-evaluates the role of these complex organizations and looks at how political influence is achieved on Capitol Hill and in the White House.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction
1 Lights, Camera, Action: Policy Experts and Presidential Campaigns
2 From Generation to Generation: The Origin and Evolution of American Think Tanks
3 Theorizing about Think Tanks: Competing Visions and Conceptual Approaches
4 Open for Business: Think Tanks and the Marketplace of Ideas
5 Something Is Missing: Think Tanks and the Study of Foreign Policy-Making
6 Finding Their Way: In Search of Policy Influence
7 Is Anybody Listening? Assessing the Influence of Think Tanks
8 Think Tanks at Work: The Debate over National Missile Defense
9 A Hard-Fought Battle: 9/11, the Bush Doctrine, and the War of Ideas
Conclusion: Think Tanks, Foreign Policy, and the Public Interest
APPENDICES
1 Profiles and Budgets of Selected American Think Tanks
2 Government Positions Held by Staff at Selected Think Tanks
3 Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, and Congressional Testimony on Missile Defence and the War on Terror Provided by Selected Think Tanks
4 Print Media Coverage, Television Exposure, and Congressional Testimony, January 2001–January 2005
5 Selected Publications on Missile Defence and the War on Terror from American Think Tanks
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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