Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs

26 Aug 2004 12:22

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This is a place-holder; it needs a better name, which I hope will come from thinking things through.

See also: Intellectuals

Recommended:
• John B. Judis, The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust
• Michael Lind, Up from Conservativism [Especially the chapter on what he calls "the triangular trade"]
• Theda Skocpol, "The Narrowing of Civic Life", The American Prospect, June 2004, pp. 45--47

To read:
• Donald E. Abelson, Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes
• Kenneth T. Andrews and Bob Edwards, "Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process", Annnual Review of Sociology 30 (2004): 479--506 [link]
• Lucy Bernholz, Creating Phlanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution [Author's book site]
• Philip H. Burch, Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power, and Policy
• Mary Ellen S. Capek and Molly Mead, Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality [Blurb]
• Paul Dickson, Think Tanks
• Mark Dowie, American Foundations: An Investigative History [Blurb]
• Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
• Virgina Gray and David Lowery, The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the United States
• Tim Lambert, "When Think Tanks Attack" [link and related]
• Thomas Medvetz, "Hybrid intellectuals: Toward a theory of think tanks and public policy experts in the United States" [PDF draft. Via Henry Farrell.]
• Andrew Rich, Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise [Blurb]
• Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism
• Theda Skocpol
  • Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
  • "Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy", Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004): 3--20
• Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda