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Critical perspectives on think tanks : power, politics and knowledge / edited by Julien Landry (School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in critical policy studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Policy sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 an Introduction to critical studies of think tanks / Julien Landry
- Part I: Think tanks and the transformation of policy expertise
- 2. How advocacy tanks wrote the latest Chapter in the history of political intellectuals / Guillaume Lamy
- 3. From private advice to public policy? The evolution of consultancy think tanks / Matthias Kipping
- Part II: Brokering access, marketing knowledge
- 4. Democracy, civil society and the strategies pursued by think tanks in Mexico / Alejandra Salas-Porras
- 5. In the backstage of influence and 'policy marketing.' collusive transactions and action-oriented knowledge at epode European network / Thomas Alam
- 6. An uphill battle: Think tanks, donald trump and the war of ideas / Donald E. Abelson
- Part III: Discourse, power, influence
- 7. Interplays of economic and knowledge power. Neoliberal think tank networks and the return and universalization of entrepreneurship / Dieter Plehwe
- 8. Think tanks and the turnaround of the right in brazil / Juliana Hauck and Ciro Resende
- 9. Think tanks as governance entrepreneurs: Institutionalizing human rights in asean / Erin Zimmerman
- Part IV: Spheres of truth and systems of knowledge
- 10. Politics by the same means? Think tanks, polarization and the road to post-truth in the United States and Canada / Julien Landry
- 11. Widening the gap: Us think tanks and the manufactured chasm between scientific expertise and common sense on climate change / Alexander Ruser
- 12. Towards an epistemic evaluation of think tank ecosystems: The case of epistemic justice / Andréanne Veillette, François Claveau and Amandine Catala
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781789909234
- 1789909236
- Publisher Number:
- 40030682343
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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