On Think Tanks Annual Report 2016: Evolving Think Tanks

By Erika Perez-Leon

The On Think Tanks 2016 Annual Report looks back at our work over the past year. It also provides insight into the state of the sector. The report also includes a section...

Unraveling Think Tanks’ Business Models

By Ashari Cahyo Edi, Leandro Echt

Why study think tanks’ business models? Rarely discussed yet critically foundational, a business model is an essential part of an organisation’s sustainability. It is the heart of any...

Communicating Sensitive Issues: The Challenges Facing Think Tanks

By Ermy Ardhyanti, Francesca Uccelli, Mykola Stepanov, Radka Vicenova

This document is the result of a collaboration amongst four think tanks from four countries: the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA) from Slovakia;...

Learning Together: Self-Assessments for Think Tanks

By Adriana Arellano, Irina Guruli, Leandro Echt, Petra Reszketo, Renata Dalaqua

Performance is affected by multidimensional elements, starting with governance and reaching all the way to human resources, financial sustainability, impact and...

A different look at Transparify’s 2016 results

By Erika Perez-Leon

These graphs reflect the results from Transparify's 2016 report. Transparify rates the extent to which think tanks publicly disclose where their funding comes...

Women in Think Tanks

By Meghan Froehner

This publication presents On Think Tanks Series on Women in Think Tanks. It offers the views of women working in think tanks across the world, the challenges they face and solutions to...

Think Tanks and Universities

By Shannon Sutton

This digital publication presents the Series Think Tanks and Universities edited by Shannon Sutton, from the Think Tank Initiative. In it, authors from Latin America, Africa and Asia write...

Peer Reviews for Think Tanks

By Andrea Ordoñez

This digital publication presents the Series Peer Reviews for Think Tanks  edited by Andrea Ordoñez. In it, authors from across Latin America describe an innovative approach to provide...

On Think Tanks and Elections

By Leandro Echt

This digital publication presents the Series On Think Tanks and Elections edited by Leandro Echt. In it, authors from across Latin America describe an innovative approach to inform the...

Methodology Brief: Qualitative Survey Analysis

By Courtney Tolmie

Methodology Brief presented for the 1st international conference on research methods to study think tanks.

Methodology Brief: Case studies, Qualitative Methods and Diachronic Perspectives

By Marcos Gonzalez Hernando

In advance of the first International Online Conference: Insights into Think Tanks (August – October 2015), Marcos Gonzalez Hernando, shares a Methodology Brief on Case...

Methodology Brief: Social Network Analysis

By Jordan Tchilingirian

In advance of the first International Online Conference: Insights into Think Tanks (August – October 2015), Jordan Soukias Tchilingirian, shares a Methodology Brief on Social Network Analysis