Reform

Reform
founded in the year	2002
City	London
Country	United Kingdom
Website	http://www.reform.uk/
address	45 Great Peter Street,, London SW1P 3LT
founder	Nick Herbert, Andrew Haldenby
Networks	Stockholm Network, Think Tank
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	19.06.2015
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 5
Presences n = 16
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Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,4 Leader (CEO etc.),3 Consultant,0 Editor,0 Interviewee,2 Member,4 Participant,0 Lecturer,3 Employee,0 </pPie>

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

45 Great Peter Street,, London SW1P 3LT

People

Executive board

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

• Nick Seddon, (former)

• Andrew Haldenby (2005-), Director

• Richard Harries, Deputy Director

• Nick Boys Smith, Consultant Director

• Rupert Darwall, Consultant Director

• Dale Bassett, (former)

• Greg Rosen, Consultant Director

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Kimberley Trewhitt, (former)

• Anna Calvert, (former)

• Thomas Cawston, (former)

• William Mosseri-Marlio, Researcher

• James Zuccollo, Senior Economist

• Amy Finch, Researcher

• Elizabeth Crowhurst, Senior Researcher

• Shane Frith, (former)

• Camilla Hagelund, Senior Researcher

• Lucy Parsons, (former)

• Patrick Nolan, (former)

• Charlotte Pickles, Senior Research Director

• Sophie Littlefair, Operations Director

• Hannah Titley, Researcher

• Shemadene Edwards, (former)

• Cathy Corrie, Researcher

• Leo Ewbank, Researcher

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Chris Gibson-Smith, Chairman of the Advisory Board

• Adrian Montague, (former)

• Mark Pennington, (former)

• Frank Field

• David Ramsbotham, (former)

• Rupert Darwall, (former)

• Jeremy Sillem , (former)

• Christopher Gent, (former)

• Karol Sikora, (former)

• Ruth Lea Studies, (former)

• Jim Thornton, (former)

• Anthony O’Hear, (former)

• Jeremy Browne

• Norman Warner

• Derek Scott, (former)

• Steve Robson

• Julian Morris, (former)

• David Henderson, (former)

• Nick Bosanquet

• John Spiers, (former)

• Matt Ridley, (former)

• Stephen Pollard, (former)

• Jonathan Hill, (former)

• Oliver Pawle

• Tim Parker

• Tim Congdon, (former)

• Ed Vaizey, (former)

• Steven Schwartz, (former)

• James Tooley, (former)

• Douglas Hague, (former)

• Patrick Minford, (former)

• Adrian Bull, (former)

• John Marks, (former)

• Robert Balchin, (former)

Supervisory board

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

• Oliver Pawle

• Rupert Darwall

• Stephen Hargrave

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.

• Foreign and Security Policy
• Institutional Reform/Public Services
• Justice and fundamental rights
• Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
• Health and Consumer Policy
• Inneres
• Economic and Monetary Affairs

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.

• Budget control (Austerity Politics): states greater expansion of public debt in recessions than shrinking during growth, proposes a independent body with veto power to control the budgetary process

• Reduction of public spending (Austerity Politics): "Curbing the overreach of the Government will also help reduce the degree to which it crowds out private activity (evidence of this crowding out can be seen through lower capital investment)."