{"id":2154,"date":"2011-03-04T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-01-26T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:04:08","slug":"think-tanks-and-policy-makers-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/think-tanks-and-policy-makers-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Think tanks and policy makers in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recent publication from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundacionsiena.org.ar\/\">\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Siena<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kas.de\/wf\/en\/\">Konrad Adenauer Stiftung\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kas.de\/wf\/doc\/kas_21991-1522-1-30.pdf?110223155100\">Think Tanks, Decision Makers and Political Actors<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Gerardo U\u00f1a, Carina Lupica Luciano Strazza offers new insights in the complex relationships that exist between research and policy in Argentina. The authors consider think tanks are bridges or nexus between the worlds of research and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Among their main conclusions they highlight the focus on agenda setting and the increasing involvement of think tanks on the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of policies.<\/p>\n<p>They also find that few have communication strategies to disseminate their research; and even fewer monitor and evaluate their influence.<\/p>\n<p>The authors use 4 categories of think tanks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Private research centres \u2013private, independent, think tanks that focus their attention on research projects but are organised in ways similar to consultancy firms.<\/li>\n<li>Academic centres \u2013based within universities and promote the debate of ideas and the formation of future economic and political leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy groups \u2013they focus their activities on the promotion os specific rights, monitoring government policies and channeling civil society demands.<\/li>\n<li>Political foundations \u2013organisations that actively in the political process and are linked to a leader, interest group or political party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And Identify 4 roles or functions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spaces for the dissemination of ideas<\/li>\n<li>Policy legitimators<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge networks<\/li>\n<li>Support for political action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For anyone interested in Argentinean think tanks, this study provides a thorough assessment of quite a few of them. I am not an expert in Argentinean politics so I\u2019ll let those who are comment on the accuracy of their analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent publication from\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Siena\u00a0and\u00a0Konrad Adenauer Stiftung\u00a0on\u00a0Think Tanks, Decision Makers and Political Actors\u00a0by\u00a0Gerardo U\u00f1a, Carina Lupica Luciano Strazza offers new insights in the complex relationships that exist between research and policy in Argentina. The authors consider think tanks are bridges or nexus between the worlds of research and politics. Among their main conclusions they highlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[334,384,194,725,192,181,437],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}