Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and U. S. Foreign PolicyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 14 авг. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 392 Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on terror. In the process of uncovering how some of the nation's most prominent think tanks have established themselves as key players in the political arena, he challenges traditional approaches to assessing policy influence and suggests alternative models. |
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... important and controversial foreign policies: the development and possible deployment of a national missile defense system and the ongoing initiatives of the Bush administration to wage war against terrorists and the states that harbour ...
... important and controversial foreign policies: the development and possible deployment of a national missile defense system and the ongoing initiatives of the Bush administration to wage war against terrorists and the states that harbour ...
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... importance of distinguishing between power and influence, it is equally important to draw a distinction between different types of influence. In so doing, we can better evaluate the contributions that think tanks make and where in the ...
... importance of distinguishing between power and influence, it is equally important to draw a distinction between different types of influence. In so doing, we can better evaluate the contributions that think tanks make and where in the ...
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... important contributions to various domestic and foreign policy issues. However, in other instances, think tanks have barely left a mark on an administration's policies, a failure often admitted by those institutions that have tried to ...
... important contributions to various domestic and foreign policy issues. However, in other instances, think tanks have barely left a mark on an administration's policies, a failure often admitted by those institutions that have tried to ...
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... important, except in the impact it has on other lives.” Over the course of researching and writing this book, I have thought a lot about Robinson's poignant observation and how often we take for granted the people who have had ...
... important, except in the impact it has on other lives.” Over the course of researching and writing this book, I have thought a lot about Robinson's poignant observation and how often we take for granted the people who have had ...
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... important policy issues. Understanding how and why these institutions have emerged in significant numbers in the United States is relatively straightforward. The more difficult task is to determine the extent to which they have ...
... important policy issues. Understanding how and why these institutions have emerged in significant numbers in the United States is relatively straightforward. The more difficult task is to determine the extent to which they have ...
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Policy Experts and Presidential Campaigns | 23 |
The Origin and Evolution of American Think Tanks | 43 |
Competing Visions and Conceptual Approaches | 97 |
Think Tanks and the Marketplace of Ideas | 110 |
Think Tanks and the Study of Foreign PolicyMaking | 127 |
In Search of Policy Influence | 147 |
7 Is Anybody Listening? Assessing the Influence of Think Tanks | 163 |
The Debate over National Missile Defense | 182 |
911 the Bush Doctrine and the War of Ideas | 201 |
Think Tanks Foreign Policy and the Public Interest | 225 |
APPENDICES | 233 |
Notes | 303 |
Works Cited | 337 |
Index | 359 |
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Стр. 110 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Стр. 110 - If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society ; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.
Стр. 110 - Among the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides...
Стр. 137 - I, the bureaucratic politics model sees no unitary actor but rather many actors as players, who focus not on a single strategic issue but on many diverse intra-national problems as well, in terms of no consistent set of strategic objectives but rather according to various conceptions of national, organizational, and personal goals, making government decisions not by rational choice but by the pulling and hauling that is politics.
Стр. 63 - To promote, carry on, conduct, and foster scientific research, education, training and publication in the broad fields of economics, government administration, and the political and social sciences generally, involving the study, determination, interpretation and publication of economic, political and social facts and principles...
Стр. 214 - American hegemony is the only reliable defense against a breakdown of peace and international order. The appropriate goal of American foreign policy, therefore, is to preserve that hegemony as far into the future is possible."39 History strongly suggests that this optimism is an illusion.
Стр. 68 - The purpose of this institution is to promote peace. Its records stand as a challenge to those who promote war.
Стр. 75 - Corporation was chartered in 1948 as a nonprofit institution to "further and promote scientific, educational, and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare and security of the United States of America.
Стр. 191 - We need a new framework that allows us to build missile defenses to counter the different threats of today's world. To do so, we must move beyond the constraints of the 30-year-old ABM Treaty. This treaty does not recognize the present or point us to the future. It enshrines the past.
Стр. 324 - Berman, The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy: The Ideology of Philanthropy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), pp.