Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks

Edited by Julien Landry, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

Contents:

1 An introduction to critical studies of think tanks 1
Julien Landry

PART I THINK TANKS AND THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLICY EXPERTISE
2 How advocacy tanks wrote the latest chapter in the history
of political intellectuals 21
Guillaume Lamy
3 From private advice to public policy? The evolution of
consultancy think tanks 37
Matthias Kipping

PART II BROKERING ACCESS, MARKETING KNOWLEDGE
4 Democracy, civil society and the strategies pursued by
think tanks in Mexico 58
Alejandra Salas-Porras
5 In the backstage of influence and ‘policy marketing.’
Collusive transactions and action-oriented knowledge at
Epode European Network 79
Thomas Alam
6 An uphill battle: think tanks, Donald Trump and the war of ideas 97
Donald E. Abelson

PART III DISCOURSE, POWER, INFLUENCE
7 Interplays of economic and knowledge power. Neoliberal
think tank networks and the return and universalization of
entrepreneurship 117
Dieter Plehwe
8 Think tanks and the turnaround of the right in Brazil 137
Juliana Hauck and Ciro Resende
9 Think tanks as governance entrepreneurs: institutionalizing
human rights in ASEAN 157
Erin Zimmerman

PART IV SPHERES OF TRUTH AND SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE
10 Politics by the same means? Think tanks, polarization and
the road to post-truth in the United States and Canada 177
Julien Landry
11 Widening the gap: US think tanks and the manufactured
chasm between scientific expertise and common sense on
climate change 196
Alexander Ruser
12 Towards an epistemic evaluation of think tank ecosystems:
the case of epistemic justice 215
Andréanne Veillette, François Claveau and Amandine
Catala

Index