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- Book Title
- Think Tanks in America
- ISBN
- 9780226143668
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Think Tanks in America
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Subject
- Political Process / General, Public Policy / General, Consulting, General, American Government / General
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022614366X
ISBN-13
9780226143668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038267422
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Think Tanks in America
Subject
Political Process / General, Public Policy / General, Consulting, General, American Government / General
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Think tanks have become hugely important actors in the Washington policy process, but have also become increasingly political in recent years. Thomas Medvetz's well-researched book will teach you almost everything you ever wanted to know about these ever-changing institutions., Over the past half century, few developments in the US political system have influenced the content of actual legislation more than the rise of think tanks. But until now, information and analysis of this phenomenon have been mostly anecdotal and known only within the Washington Beltway. Thomas Medvetz provides a much needed and thoughtful analysis of the history and relevance of these important institutions. Think Tanks in America is an invaluable resource., "Thomas Medvetz does us a huge service by analyzing the development of policy expertise, its shifting institutional locations, and the impact of both on academic social science and public affairs. This is an important book on an important issue."-Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics , Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched--Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America . Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better--so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased., "Thomas Medvetz does us a huge service by analyzing the development of policy expertise, its shifting institutional locations, and the impact of both on academic social science and public affairs. This is an important book on an important issue."--Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics, "Thomas Medvetz does us a huge service by analyzing the development of policy expertise, its shifting institutional locations, and the impact of both on academic social science and public affairs. This is an important book on an important issue."-Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
320.60973
Table Of Content
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue: Gaining Ground: The Rise of the Policy Expert Chapter 1. Indistinction: Rethinking the Think Tank Chapter 2. Experts in the Making: On the Birth of Technoscientific Reason Chapter 3. The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks Chapter 4. The Rules of Policy Research Chapter 5. From Deprivation to Dependency: Expert Discourse and the American Welfare Debate Chapter 6. Conclusion: Anti-intellectualism, Public Intellectualism, and Public Sociology Revisited Appendix A: Note on Data Sources Appendix B: Supplementary Graphs and Tables Notes References Index
Synopsis
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. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of "research" do they produce? Where does their authority come from? 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 process, they transform the government of this country, the press, and the political role of intellectuals. Timely, succinct, and instructive, this provocative book will force us to rethink our understanding of the drivers of political debate in the United States., Some commentators on the Left have been raising alarms about the lethal combination of money, power, and education that they claim the right wing has used to develop ideological infrastructures to produce its own narrative--and thereby to control debate in the public sphere. Something like $3 billion has been spent over 30 years to build a network of conservative public intellectuals, think tanks, and media outlets. Names like the Heritage Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, are just a sampling of the organizations linked to this movement. Tom Medvetz here deals with think tanks on both the right and the left. He tracks the rise of a different style of think-tank production starting in the 1960s, when many of them started to become "advocacy tanks," more oriented to the mass media, alert to the need for rapid response production of short synthetic materials as opposed to scholarly research. Even the venerables, like the Brookings Institution and Council on Foreign Relations, moved toward the faster, shorter, more media-oriented production. How did this process evolve, and what are we to make of the world of think tanks now in our midst? Medvetz gives us a timely book, brilliantly succinct and extremely instructive about the cultural landscape of knowledge and policy production in America. , 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. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of "research" do they produce? Where does their authority come from? 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 process, they transform the government of this country, the press, and the political role of intellectuals. Timely, succinct, and instructive, this provocative book will force us to rethink our understanding of the drivers of political debate in the United States.
LC Classification Number
JK468.C7M43 2014
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