Joze Pucnik Institute

Joze Pucnik Institute
founded in the year	2006
City	Ljubljana
Country	Slovenia
Website	http://www.ijpucnik.si
address	Hribarjevo nabrežje 13, 1000, Ljubljana
Networks	Stockholm Network, European Ideas Network (EIN)
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	21.05.2015

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Hribarjevo nabrežje 13, 1000, Ljubljana

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Žiga Turk, former

• Dimitrij Kovačič

• Vera Ban

• Matej Avbelj, former

• Majda Pučnik Rudl

• Robert Strah, former

• Božo Predalič

• Andreja Valič Zver, President

• Iva Pučnik Ozimič

• Jernej Pavlin

• Nataša Šuštar, former

• Igor Marinšek, former

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Vasko Simoniti

• Matevž Tomšič

• Drago Jančar

• Božo Predalič

• Gorazd Pučnik

• Tamara Grieser Pečar

• Tone Jerovšek

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Petra Škrinjar Zagožen

• Drago Jancar, former

• Boštjan Kolarič

• Tone Kuntner, former

• Aleksander Zorn, former

• Milan Zver, former

• Borut Petek

• Mihael Brejc, former

• Gorazd Pucnik, former

• Matej Makarovic, former

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• European Integration
• Political Movements, Parties, Thought

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): Public debt crisis should not been overcome by higher taxes but reduced public expenditures