Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs
Last update: 26 Aug 2004 12:22
First version:
This is a place-holder; it needs a better name, which I hope will come from
thinking things through.
See also:
Intellectuals
Recommended:
- Daniel W. Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans and Plutocrats Are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
- John B. Judis, The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites,
Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust
- Gara LaMarche, "Democracy and the Donor Class", Democracy no. 34 (Fall 2014)
- Michael Lind, Up from Conservativism [Especially the
chapter on what he calls "the triangular trade"]
- Mark Schmitt, "Philanthropy is My Co-Pilot", The American
Prospect 29 April 2010 [online]
- Theda Skocpol, "The Narrowing of Civic Life", The
American Prospect, June 2004, pp. 45--47 [Online]
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
- 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
- Paul Dickson, Think Tanks
- Mark Dowie, American Foundations: An Investigative
History
- 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]
- James G. McGann, The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance
- Thomas Medvetz
- Sarah Reckhow, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
- Andrew Rich, Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise
- 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