“The Economist explains the role of think tanks as filling “the gap between academia and policy making.” I made a list for tweet scan to get a sense of that gap. It ain’t no gap – it’s a chasm, no an abyss.
The role of professional academic researchers move with the dedicated pace of a peer review and thus, very slowly. Journalists produce daily descriptions of events and are fast but not dispositive.
The job of a think tank is to make some sense of the day-to-day world over the course of a year or more and develop policies that make each day better than the one before. The good ones make the academic rigor of research as accessible a news story. The list below is not exhaustive and developed as a test using their twitter feed. Which of the following are most accessible?” Or, take a look at On Think Tanks.
Rex L. Curry
Acton Institute
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord John Acton (1834-1902). Acton seeks ways to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is human flourishing.
American Enterprise Institute
Aspen Institute
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Bipartisan Policy Center
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cato Institute
Libertarian and non-interventionist
Webmentions
[…] The solution to the offshore economy problem is “beneficial ownership” legislation by those who recognize the snake has started to eat its tail using the fangs of anonymous shell companies with poisons affecting national security by promoting tax evasion and evading compliance. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) defines the problem (here) and presents the details via an Atlantic Council in an excellent (first hour) webcast on how the offshore corrupts the onshore (here). The Dealing with the Offshore Economy is available (here) Added discussion on the subject is (here) among all of the Think Tank People (here). […]