Think Tanks in America Medvetz Thomas Paperback
Think Tanks in America Medvetz Thomas Paperback Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony…
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Think Tanks in America Medvetz Thomas Paperback
Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. Who funds them? But what are think tanks?
Where does their authority come from? What kind of "research" do they produce? And how influential have they become?
In Think Tanks in America, Thomas Medvetz argues that the unsettling ambiguity of the think tank is less an accidental feature of its existence than the very key to its impact. By combining elements of more established sources of public knowledge-universities, government agencies, businesses, and the media-think tanks exert a tremendous amount of influence on the way citizens and lawmakers perceive the world, unbound by the more clearly defined roles of those other institutions. In the