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Medvetz, Thomas.

Think tanks in America / Thomas Medvetz. - xiv, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: gaining ground: the rise of the policy expert -- Indistinction: rethinking the think tank -- Experts in the making: on the birth of technoscientific reason -- The crystallization of the space of think tanks -- The rules of policy research -- From deprivation to dependency: expert discourse and the American welfare debate -- Conclusion: anti-intellectualism, public intellectualism, and public sociology revisited.

ISBN: 9780226517292 0226517292

Standard No.: 7697818

LCCN: 2012014464

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB274395 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016135141 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Government consultants--United States.
Research institutes--United States.
Policy sciences--United States.
Political planning--United States.
Government consultants.
Policy sciences.
Political planning.
Research institutes.
Thinktank.
Förenta staterna--politik och förvaltning.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
USA.

LC Class. No.: JK468.C7 / .M43 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 320.60973