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...
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Should think tanks register as lobbyists?
This is an old post but still relevant to many think tanks: Lobby transparency spotlight falls on think-tanks. According to the anti fraud commissioner at the European Commission in...
How important are the source and the motivation to pursue an idea?
George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, argues that think tanks (many, not all) have become PR fronts for corporations and millionaires with pre-set positions and views....
Corruption free think tanks
The work of think tanks is never straight forward. Researchers do not exist in an institutional vacuum with no links to the real world. They must access information that is often kept behind...
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...