Swedish Advocacy Think Tanks as News Sources and Agenda- Setters

When Are Agenda Setters Valuable?

Why do industries donate money to legislative campaigns when roll-call votes suggest that donors gain nothing in return? I argue that corporate donors may shape policy outcomes by influencing powerful agenda setters in the early stages of lawmaking. On the basis of a new dataset of more than 45,000 individual state-legislator sessions (19882012), I document how agenda control is deemed valuable...

Postgraduate Design Courses as Research Think Tanks for Cultural Institutions

In the interest of reinforcing the relationship between academic research and professional practice, certain postgraduate design courses can serve as research think tanks for cultural institutions or projects which may not have access to inhouse research departments, either for organic reasons or as a result of limited resources. This approach, which we have been implementing since 2006 within ...

Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Health Care Policy (1960s-Present)

Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks

The conservative movement and especially its think tanks play a critical role in denying the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), especially by manufacturing uncertainty over climate science. Books denying AGW are a crucial means of attacking climate science and scientists, and we examine the links between conservative think tanks (CTTs) and 108 climate change denial ...

Intrapreneurial Culture through Think Tanks in Higher Education Institutions

To bridge the gap between invention and innovation, prenovation has to be focused. One of the elements of prenovation is emphasizing and creating policies for institutions. This research paper highlights the importance of having an intrapreneurial culture in higher education institutions. The purpose of this paper is to review literature related to intrapreneurial culture and find out the posit...