Think tanks beyond the nation-state: policy analysis for global policy and transnational administration

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Diane Stone
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Policy

Mennonite Chaco Mission, Iglesia Evangélica Unida (IEU), and Argentina's Nation-State

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360
Author(s):  
Elmer S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Native People ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Multiple Agents ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The Relationship

Research reports on Christian missions to foreign lands have tended to focus on the relationship between missionary and native people, giving little attention to the interplay of nation-state agencies. Furthermore, the reports portray a one-way process in which the missionary gives and natives receive, although the intervention actually entails multiple agents influencing one another. This study documents the dynamic interaction among a Mennonite Mission, Argentine national and state indigenous policies, and Toba aborigines throughout the latter twentieth century. It illustrates the active role played by the Toba in reformulating both the missionary message and nation-state policy.

Policy analysis in think tanks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna ◽  
Marcela I. Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The chapter provides an overview of how policy analysis takes place in Mexican Think Tanks. It focuses on two of the few organisations of this kind that currently exist in the country: the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (CIDAC, or Centre for Research for Development) and the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY, or Centre of Studies Espinosa Yglesias). The chapter is divided into four sections. The first discusses the main features of think tanks, with a particular focus on the Mexican ones. The second presents the origins and general objectives of CIDAC and CEEY, and describes how these two organizations conduct policy analysis. The third compares both cases, paying particular attention to how they define their topics of interest, how they gather relevant information, what kind of policy products they generate, what kind of communication channels they use, and how they assess the impact that their analyses may have had. The chapter closes with some conclusions and general remarks about the future challenges of policy analysis in Mexican think tanks.

Think tanks and policy analysis in Turkey

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Göktuğ Morçöl ◽  
Özer Köseoğlu ◽  
Mehmet Zahid Sobacı ◽  
Ömer Faruk Köktaş
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Think Tanks

Political parties and think tanks: policy analysis oriented toward office-seeking

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Argibay ◽  
Rafaël Cos ◽  
Anne-Cécile Douillet
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Marked Effect ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Internal Production

This chapter examines the role played by political parties and think tanks in the development of policy analysis in France. It shows how party-based policy analysis is interwoven with inter and intra-party competition related to the objective of seeking office. Indeed, even though policy seeking activities do not look central in the functioning of French political parties, developments in party rationales, like those in the profile of governing parties’ elites, are favourable to intensifying interest in policy issues. Political parties’ professionalization nonetheless appears to have a marked effect on their internal production of public policy expertise: party membership is marginalised while the electoral issues and internal competition have a structuring impact. Lastly, analysis of public policy expertise production shows that it is mainly done in the vicinity of party organisations, due to the significant recourse to experts outside of parties and the role of think tanks.

Diversity of information sources: An evaluation of global think tanks knowledge construct

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Mahmood Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Ayub Jan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
The World ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn the realm of policy making, place and prestige of think tanks is acknowledged for their contribution in policy analysis and recommendations. Governments around the world consider the reports and recommendations of leading global think tanks when developing their policies. However, in spite of there being a comprehensive list of typologies and functions of think tanks, much less is known about these ‘machineries of knowledge’ and what enables them ‘to know what they know, and the key sources of variation among them’. Drawing on the theory of epistemic knowledge, this study aims to provide insights about how knowledge is produced inside these machineries of knowledge by looking at source citations’ pattern of reports produced by the top 50 global think tanks. For this purpose, a total of 365 research reports on one country, i.e. Pakistan, published between 2007 and 2016 were retrieved. A total of 17,801 references were extracted and analyzed. The study finds that there is great variation across think tanks in the use of diverse information sources and the use also varies considerably over time even for the same organization.

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