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This month, Prospect Magazine announced the winners of the its Think Tank of the Year Award. The Institute for Government won the top spot, with the Policy Exchange claiming the prize for the best...

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Another year, another ranking of think tanks (and surprise surprise,...

I’ll accept that James McGann’s effort to identify and rank all the think tanks in the world has some positive outcomes. First of all, it has people talking about think tanks -and some think tanks are...

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Goran’s recommendations on think tank rankings

Goran Buldioski offers another take on the rankings in his blog Goran’s musings and some very interesting recommendations that I republish below: As someone who works with think tanks, studies think...

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The ‘Top Think Tanks’ in the World commentary from AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

An interesting review of James McGann’s think tank’s list  from Africa is a Country: The ‘Top Think Tanks’ in the World The report also notes “… the rise of think tanks in Asia, Latin America, the...

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Evaluating a think tank from the AEA365 (but should we?)

Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) describes an approach to evaluating think tanks in the American Evaluation Association’s AEA365...

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The mighty influence of think tanks (in the US)

A KCPP discussion on the might of think tanks and the influence they have in US politics and the world. James McGann provides an explanation of this index (you’ll be the judge of that -criteria,...

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And the winner is: Brookings … but, once again, the loser: critical analysis

I have not been a fan of Jim McGann’s think tank index. There are no surprised there. I think that the energy that goes into this could be used more productively elsewhere; for instance gathering more...

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The Go to Think Tank Index: two critiques

This is a bit old news but i feel it is worth sharing reviews by other researchers on the think tank index produced by James McGann. Jan Trevisan, at the International Centre for Climate Governance has...

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This year, instead of ranking think tanks lets think about them more carefully

David Roodman and Julia Clark from the Center for Global Development have posted a very interesting reflection on the now unfortunately famous McGann think tank ranking. In Envelope, Please: Seeking a...

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European think tanks and the European Union

The Bureau of European Policy Advisers of the European Commission has recently published a report on the current relationship between European think tanks and the European Union, edited by Antonio...

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Think tank rankings and awards: rigged, futile, or useful

Prospect Magazine announced the winners of the 2014 Prospect Think Tank of the Year Award two weeks ago. I have written about my preference for this kind of award in the past, so it should not come as...

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Book Review: How Think Tanks Shape Social Development Policies, edited by...

[Editor’s note: This is the first post by a new contributor to On Think Tanks, Marcos Gonzalez Hernando, a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research focuses on the...

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