How does a think tank policy come about? Lessons from China
In China think tanks are experiencing something of a Golden Age (at least if we consider the number of think tanks founded in the last few years and the support from the...
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In China think tanks are experiencing something of a Golden Age (at least if we consider the number of think tanks founded in the last few years and the support from the...
Think tanks across the world face a number of challenges. Among them, their traditional audiences, policymakers, are increasingly aware that they cannot deal in facts...
Two weeks ago, the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and Tsinghua University convened a workshop in Beijing that was designed to gather contemporary research on the development...
For all the talk of a Golden Age of think tanks in China (and for all the support they receive) think tanks (old and new) face a number of challenges. These are similar to...
According to many Chinese scholars at an event co-orgnised by the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in...
Despite the rapid global proliferation of think tanks, Western and particularly US institutes still attract the lion’s share of popular and academic attention. This workshop seeks to cast a...
Study tours had fallen out of fashion. The Knowledge Sector Initiative in Indonesia may be leading their revival. A recent visit by 16 Indonesian think tanks to China...
Two think tank rankings have been published recently: one for Chinese think tanks and one for US think tanks. Both have been developed by think tanks themselves and both...
This is the third post of a series on how context affects think tanks. The first post dealt with a number of challenges that a study into this relationship would face....
This is the second post of a series on how context affects think tanks. The first post dealt with a number of challenges that a study into this relationship would...
The Think Tank Initiative has been (and is) very interested in finding out what is the relationship between think tanks’ context and their performance and effectiveness. This is a...
Chinese think tanks are often described in the literature as 'windows' into other political communities. Any government would find it quite had to openly inquire about...