Think tanks in America / Thomas Medvetz.

By: Medvetz, ThomasMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]Description: xiv, 324 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226517292; 0226517292Subject(s): Government consultants -- United States | Research institutes -- United States | Policy sciences -- United States | Political planning -- United States | Government consultants | Policy sciences | Political planning | Research institutes | United States | Verenigde Staten | Thinktank | USA | Förenta staterna -- politik och förvaltningDDC classification: 320.60973 LOC classification: JK468.C7 | .M43 2012Other classification: 89.63
Contents:
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.
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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.

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