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.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-358) and index
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgments 18
- Acronyms 22
- Introduction 26
- 1 Lights, Camera, Action: Policy Experts and Presidential Campaigns 46
- 2 From Generation to Generation: The Origin and Evolution of American Think Tanks 66
- 3 Theorizing about Think Tanks: Competing Visions and Conceptual Approaches 120
- 4 Open for Business: Think Tanks and the Marketplace of Ideas 133
- 5 Something Is Missing: Think Tanks and the Study of Foreign Policy-Making 150
- 6 Finding Their Way: In Search of Policy Influence 170
- 7 Is Anybody Listening? Assessing the Influence of Think Tanks 186
- 8 Think Tanks at Work: The Debate over National Missile Defense 205
- 9 A Hard-Fought Battle: 9/11, the Bush Doctrine, and the War of Ideas 224
- Conclusion: Think Tanks, Foreign Policy, and the Public Interest 248
- APPENDICES 256
- 1 Profiles and Budgets of Selected American Think Tanks 258
- 2 Government Positions Held by Staff at Selected Think Tanks 262
- 3 Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, and Congressional Testimony on Missile Defence and the War on Terror Provided by Selected Think Tanks 282
- 4 Print Media Coverage, Television Exposure, and Congressional Testimony, January 2001–January 2005 296
- 5 Selected Publications on Missile Defence and the War on Terror from American Think Tanks 305
- Notes 326
- Works Cited 360
- Index 382
- A 382
- B 382
- C 383
- D 384
- E 385
- F 385
- G 385
- H 385
- I 386
- J 386
- K 386
- L 386
- M 387
- N 387
- O 387
- P 387
- Q 388
- R 388
- S 388
- T 389
- U 389
- V 390
- W 390
- Z 390
