Istituto Acton

Istituto Acton
founded in the year	2003
City	Rome
Country	Italy
Website	http://www.acton.org/Italiano
address	no address in rome, contact through the U.S. headquarters
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	18.05.2015

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

no address in rome, contact through the U.S. headquarters

People

Executive board

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

• Kris Alan Mauren, Executive Director

• Katharine Harger, Executive Assistant

• Holly Rowley, Executive Assistant

• Robert A. Sirico, President

• Kishore Jayabalan, Director of Istituto Acton

• Rita De Vecchi, Special Projects Coordinator

• Diane Baum Verploegh, External Relations Associate

• Ken Larson, Advisor to the President

• Michael Severance, Operations Manager

• Jim Healy, Advisor to the President

Staff

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

• Samuel Gregg, Director of Research

• Charissa Reul, Conference and Program Manager

• Alejandro A. Chafuen, Senior Fellow

• Kevin E. Schmiesing, Research Fellow

• Jennifer Roback Morse, Senior Fellow in Economics

• Andreas Widmer, Research Fellow in Entrepreneurship

• Jonathan Moody, Managing Director of PovertyCure

• Anthony B. Bradley, Research Fellow

• Julie Dudderar, Conference Coordinator

• Anielka Munkel, Project Manager

• Matthea Brandenburg, PovertyCure Assistant

• Glenn Sunshine, Research Fellow

• Patrick Oetting, PovertyCure Associate

• Mark Weber, Associate Producer, PovertyCure

• Dylan Pahman, Assistant Editor and Research Associate

• Olasky Marvin, Senior Fellow

• Jonathan Witt, Research Fellow

• Jordan Ballor, Research Fellow and Executive Editor, Journal of Markets & Morality

• Michael Matheson Miller, Research Fellow and Director of PovertyCure

Supervisory board

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

• David C. Humphreys, Directors

• Kenneth J. Muraski, Directors

• Gaylen J. Byker, Directors

• Kris A. Mauren, Directors

• John M. Gordon Jr., Directors

• J.C. Huizenga, Directors

• James C. Rahn, Directors

• Alejandro A. Chafuen, Directors

• Sean M. Fieler, Directors

• John P. Crowe, Directors

• Elsa D. Prince Broekhuizen, Directors

• Frank J. Hanna, Directors

• John C. Kennedy III, Directors

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.

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.

• Promoting austerity measures (Austerity Politics):