TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abelson,Donald E.
TI  - Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and U. S. Foreign Policy
SN  - 9780773575974
AV  - E744 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Research institutes-United States-History
KW  - Political planning-United States
KW  - United States-Foreign relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Lights, Camera, Action: Policy Experts and Presidential Campaigns -- 2 From Generation to Generation: The Origin and Evolution of American Think Tanks -- 3 Theorizing about Think Tanks: Competing Visions and Conceptual Approaches -- 4 Open for Business: Think Tanks and the Marketplace of Ideas -- 5 Something Is Missing: Think Tanks and the Study of Foreign Policy-Making -- 6 Finding Their Way: In Search of Policy Influence -- 7 Is Anybody Listening? Assessing the Influence of Think Tanks -- 8 Think Tanks at Work: The Debate over National Missile Defense -- 9 A Hard-Fought Battle: 9/11, the Bush Doctrine, and the War of Ideas -- Conclusion: Think Tanks, Foreign Policy, and the Public Interest -- APPENDICES -- 1 Profiles and Budgets of Selected American Think Tanks -- 2 Government Positions Held by Staff at Selected Think Tanks -- 3 Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, and Congressional Testimony on Missile Defence and the War on Terror Provided by Selected Think Tanks -- 4 Print Media Coverage, Television Exposure, and Congressional Testimony, January 2001-January 2005 -- 5 Selected Publications on Missile Defence and the War on Terror from American Think Tanks -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - A Capitol Idea reveals the extent to which think tanks in the United States have become active and vocal participants in the foreign policy-making process. In this timely exploration, Donald Abelson re-evaluates the role of these complex organizations and looks at how political influence is achieved on Capitol Hill and in the White House
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