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A capitol idea : think tanks and US foreign policy / Donald E. Abelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abelson, Donald E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Research institutes--United States--History.
- Research institutes.
- Political planning--United States.
- Political planning.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (xxii, 367 p. : ill.) : digital file.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on terror. In the process of uncovering how some of the nation's most prominent think tanks have established themselves as key players in the political arena, he challenges traditional approaches to assessing policy influence and suggests alternative models.
- Contents:
- Lights, camera, action : policy experts and presidential campaigns
- From generation to generation : the origin and evolution of American think tanks
- Theorizing about think tanks : competing visions and conceptual approaches
- Open for business : think tanks and the marketplace of ideas
- Something is missing : think tanks and the study of foreign policy-making
- Finding their way : in search of policy influence
- Is anybody listening? : assessing the influence of think tanks
- Think tanks at work : the debate over national missile defense
- A hard-fought battle : 9/11, the Bush doctrine, and the war of ideas
- Conclusion : think tanks, foreign policy, and the public interest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612866449
- 9780773580398
- 0773580395
- 9781282866447
- 1282866443
- 9780773575974
- 0773575979
- OCLC:
- 923233722
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