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Product Description: Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists...read more
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9780226517292 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 6, 2012, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists.

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Product Description: It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In "Do Think Tanks Matter?" Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored...read more
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9780773536074 | 2 rev exp edition (McGill Queens Univ Pr, September 1, 2009), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers.
9780773523166 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Do Think Tanks Matter?

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9780773536081 | 2 rev exp edition (Queens Univ School of Policy, September 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers.
9780773523173 | Carleton Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Do Think Tanks Matter?

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Product Description: The buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall. The Smithsonian's unique buildings illustrate the changing styles and sensibilities of America as an evolving nation...read more
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9781588342614 | Original edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, March 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall.

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By Donna Wood (editor)
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9780787684181 | 20 edition (Gale Group, October 31, 2006), cover price $685.00
9780787669065 | 19th edition (Gale Group, July 8, 2005), cover price $655.00

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Product Description: Think tanks are nonprofit policy research organizations that provide analysis and expertise to influence policymakers. From the 1970s their number exploded in the U.S. and their proliferation represented a hope that lawmaking might become better informed and more effective as a result of these expert contributions...read more
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9780521830294 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 5, 2004, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Think tanks are nonprofit policy research organizations that provide analysis and expertise to influence policymakers.

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9780521673945 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 23, 2005, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Think tanks are nonprofit policy research organizations that provide analysis and expertise to influence policymakers.

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Product Description: A powerful expos of the right-wing's efforts to shape the news. In recent years, right-wing foundations and think tanks with deep pockets and aggressive agendas have reshaped the national debate on the fundamental issues that affect all of us...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781565845770 | New Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A powerful expos of the right-wing's efforts to shape the news.

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9780738804323 | Xlibris Corp, November 1, 1999, cover price $32.99

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9780738804330 | Xlibris Corp, November 1, 1999, cover price $22.99

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Product Description: Think tanks are proliferating. Although they are outside of government, many of these policy research institutes are perceived to influence political thinking and public policy. This book develops ideas about policy networks, epistemic communities and policy learning in relation to think tanks...read more
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9780714647166 | Frank Cass & Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Think tanks are proliferating.

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9780714642635 | Frank Cass & Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Think tanks are proliferating.

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Product Description: This is the first history to be written of the early development of the U.S. Regional Primate Research Center Program. In this groundbreaking work, author Richard Dukelow shows that "the history is built around the characters of the men involved in the development of the program, rather than around each Primate Center...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761800996 | Univ Pr of Amer, October 1, 1995, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: This is the first history to be written of the early development of the U.

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Product Description: This is a comprehensive study of independent public policy research organizations in America. It offers a comparative analysis of the history, evolving character, and strategy and structure of think tanks.
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9780819197504 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 1995, cover price $76.99 | About this edition: McGann presents the largest and most comprehensive study of independent public policy research organizations in America conducted to date.

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9780819197511 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 1995, cover price $30.50 | About this edition: This is a comprehensive study of independent public policy research organizations in America.

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Product Description: Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.
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9780801849572 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.

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Product Description: Gulliver thought the professors were out of their senses when he visited the Grand Academy of Lagado on the Isle of Balnibarbi. He was bemused by their many improbable schemes--extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, constructing houses from the rood down, and training pigs to plow with their snouts...read more
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9780029295519 | Free Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Gulliver thought the professors were out of their senses when he visited the Grand Academy of Lagado on the Isle of Balnibarbi.

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9780029295557 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, November 8, 1993), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Gulliver thought the professors were out of their senses when he visited the Grand Academy of Lagado on the Isle of Balnibarbi.

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Product Description: This collection of essays describes innovative research mechanisms which universities are using to expand their research support in difficult economic times. Funding pressures have already affected the direction of research in engineering, business, social and behavioral, and natural sciences...read more
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9780444891730 | North-Holland, September 1, 1992, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays describes innovative research mechanisms which universities are using to expand their research support in difficult economic times.

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Product Description: Do legislators select policy analyses objectively? How much influence do these organizations have? Do these organizations enhance the policy process? This book addresses these key questions while giving a historical overview of the genesis, activities and orientations of fourteen policy analysis organizations...read more
By Carol H. Weiss (editor)
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9780803943599 | Sage Pubns, January 1, 1992, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Do legislators select policy analyses objectively?

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9780803943605 | Sage Pubns, December 1, 1991, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Do legislators select policy analyses objectively?

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Product Description: Drawing on a detailed examination and comparison of practices, policies, and the opinions and attitudes of faculty at four major research universities (U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Pennsylvania State), Matkin provides models that can be applied in other institutions and a program for making effective plans for university technology transfer efforts...read more
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9780028972633 | Amer Council on Education, November 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Drawing on a detailed examination and comparison of practices, policies, and the opinions and attitudes of faculty at four major research universities (U.

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9781573564717 | Oryx Pr, October 30, 1990, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Drawing on a detailed examination and comparison of practices, policies, and the opinions and attitudes of faculty at four major research universities (U.

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9780887300462 | Ballinger Pub Co, February 1, 1987, cover price $34.95

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9780520046641 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $27.50

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9780520047358 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $13.95

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