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"The primary concern when it comes
to funding think tanks is in funding rigorous research that strives
to
be neutral."
Also, think tanks on the left tend to specialize by issue area and
are therefore
unable to be as nimble in redeploying their resources
toward promoting top-of-mind ideas as priorities
shift in Congress and
the White House.
"They don't see that as their role. The cultural impact
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----Mainstream and
liberal foundations are pouring
more money into public policy
institutes, or think tanks, than conservative foundations, yet the
latter have been far more successful in actually influencing public
policy and mass media, according
to an article in the Spring 2005
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ssireview. As a result, progressive organizations
have difficulty
sustaining operating staff and functions.
Rich's first book, Think Tanks, Public
Policy, and the Politics of
Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2004) examined the nineties'
rise
of the "conservative attack machine," which did not come from
conservative groups as he had expected
, but grew out of conservative
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to policy making.
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"To make matters more difficult, progressive think
tanks
have a hard time getting general organizational support," Rich
writes. For now, he does not expect
the current crop of liberal and
mainline foundations to change their strategy in order to compete
head
on with their conservative counterparts.
As they have in recent years, the editors have again
revised
entries related to the evolving post-9/11 world, the fight against
terrorism and the Iraq
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Mainline and liberal foundations are preoccupied with generating
unbiased
and scientific research.
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Whether the issue is privatization, welfare, healthcare, or
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and market their ideas in more
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partner in the project.
"Almost ten years later, very
little has changed," observed Rich,
whose next book will delve further into the war of ideas in American
politics. Recently
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For them, think tanks and policy institutes should be
homes
to the disinterested expert," Rich writes.
In contrast, the conservative approach is: "When you finish
the
research, your job is only half done," said Rich in an interview with
the Review.thinker consequences
"They are
not necessarily
going to support progressive efforts in the war of ideas," he said.
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