Should researchers get to pick who wins and who loses?
This is article is challenge statement. It is meant to elicit a reaction. Please, do join the discussion. Evidence Action recently announced that it has decided to...
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Fayyaz Yaseen, Director Accountability Lab in Pakistan
Fayyaz Yaseen is an On Think Tanks Fellow and Director of Accountability Lab in Pakistan. In this interview he discusses the origin of the think tank, the challenges it...
Are think tanks the new lobbyists?
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on this blog that former U.S. Republican Senator Jim DeMint had founded a conservative think tank in South Carolina and invested $300,000 in it, showing...
What to do when governments’ political repression also erodes intellectual capacity
Something I have found particularly interesting in the study of think tanks is that the often-mentioned causal relationship between civil liberties and the number of think...
Intellectual independence: how to protect and strengthen it?
Here are some ideas related to a piece of work I did on a recent trip to China. A key concern for many think tanks is how to protect and strengthen their intellectual...
Think tanks transparency and Twitter accounts
A few weeks ago Goran Buldioski published a post on transparency and I commented on an article by George Monbiot on think tanks' transparency. Monbiot's article sparked some debate on...
A good example of think tank transparency
Grupo FARO from Ecuador has published details about its funding for 2010 on its website. You can also click through to the full auditors report. The table they have published online,...
On some of Goran’s musings
I'd like to return the favour and comment on some of Goran's musings. Let me start by contributing to his post on the accountability of policy research organisations or think tanks. Goran...
Brains for hire: the think tank
An article on Think Tanks from The Guardian: Brains for hire: the thinktank Britain's thinktank industry is the envy of the world. The US has institutions so large that they are like...