Author : Alejandra Salas-Porras,Georgina Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137567567
Think Tanks and Global Politics by Alejandra Salas-Porras,Georgina Murray Pdf
This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra-like colonised the globe? Who funds and controls these think tanks and for what purpose? How is policy making knowledge created? How are new policy ideas propagated and validated? How do think tanks become dominant sources of knowledge in public spheres including the media? Exploring the dynamics of think tank networks in specific regions and countries, this book considers the coalitions they generate to advance the social purpose they endorse and, in particular, the spaces they occupy in the structures and fields of power at the national, regional and global level.