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Welcome to the Think Tank Network Initiative! Think Tanks have become influential organizations both in expert circles and in public media. Social scientific research on think tanks at the same time has remained underdeveloped, and is not currently up to the task of adequately capturing and explaining the think tank phenomenon. The Think Tank Network Initiative has been founded to meet this challenge and to narrow the gap. In addition to becoming a home for a wide range of comparative think tank studies we also aim to advance the discussion on legal foundations of and other rules and regulations for think tanks. The Think Tank Network Initiative comes out in favor of comprehensive transparency rules for all think tanks, not for profit organizations and others. The need for research (and advocacy) in this area is particularly important in order to improve the conditions for think tank research in general. An example of a related project is provided by a group studying the regulation of lobbying acitivities [http://www.regulatelobbying.com/]
 
Welcome to the Think Tank Network Initiative! Think Tanks have become influential organizations both in expert circles and in public media. Social scientific research on think tanks at the same time has remained underdeveloped, and is not currently up to the task of adequately capturing and explaining the think tank phenomenon. The Think Tank Network Initiative has been founded to meet this challenge and to narrow the gap. In addition to becoming a home for a wide range of comparative think tank studies we also aim to advance the discussion on legal foundations of and other rules and regulations for think tanks. The Think Tank Network Initiative comes out in favor of comprehensive transparency rules for all think tanks, not for profit organizations and others. The need for research (and advocacy) in this area is particularly important in order to improve the conditions for think tank research in general. An example of a related project is provided by a group studying the regulation of lobbying acitivities [http://www.regulatelobbying.com/]
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===Mission===
 
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In contrast to the U.S. based initiative we consciously decided in favor of the slightly modified name stressing networks because the overall think tank phenomenon has to be explained in light of frequently systematic efforts to link and coordinate think tanks. Frequently transnational networks of think tanks have become key actors and infrastructures, expressing one aspect of the intensified socialization across borders. The Initiative  aims to examine think tank landscapes in particular with regard to the resulting untersucht die Think Tank-Landschaften somit insbesondere auf neue, aus Netzwerkzusammenhängen erwachsende Arbeitsformen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Dabei gehen wir zunächst schwerpunktmäßig der Inter/-Transnationalisierung der Arbeit von Think Tanks in der EU nach, beschränken die Perspektive aber bewusst nicht auf die europäischen Verhältnisse. Z.B. soll im Rahmen der Initiative auch das u.a. von der Weltbank 1998 gegründete Global Development Netzwerk Gegenstand kritischer Analyse werden.  
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In contrast to the U.S. based initiative we consciously decided in favor of the slightly modified name stressing networks because the overall think tank phenomenon has to be explained in light of frequently systematic efforts to link and coordinate think tanks. Frequently transnational networks of think tanks have become key actors and infrastructures in and for academic, policy and interest group purposes, expressing one aspect of the intensified socialization across borders in the present age of globalization. The InitiaThe tive thus aims to examine think tank landscapes in particular with regard to the resulting new opportunities of division of labor and action. While a particular focus has to be placed on the European Union, the initaitive does not restrict the attention to European network affairs. European network research has to include non-European think tanks, for example. Furthermore we are interested in covering global think tank networks like the Global Development Network, which has been founded under the auspices of the World Bank back in 1998.
  
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Die Think Tank Netzwerk Initiative will umfassende Informationen zu Think Tank Netzwerken (Gesamtdokumentationen, die über Selbstdarstellungsmaterial hinaus recherchierte Informationen bieten)und den in diesen Netzwerken arbeitenden Einzelinstituten bereit stellen, um Fachleuten und der interessierten Öffentlichkeit insgesamt das Verständnis der Think Tank Landschaft und -politik zu erleichtern. Darüber hinaus werden vertiefende Forschungsprojekte entwickelt. Z.B. soll die Frage geklärt werden, ob bzw. inwiefern durch die Netzwerkzusammenhänge eine die thematische Kohäsion von themenzentrierten oder ideologisch orientierten Think Tanks geeignet ist, politische Positionen netzwerkübergreifend zu vereinheitlichen und über die Netzwerkgrenzen hinaus systematisch zu vermitteln. Unabhängig von vielen anderen Möglichkeiten der Think Tank Arbeit werden Think Tanks somit als Organisationen verstanden, die in Diskursgemeinschaften und -koalitionen bestimmte Zwecke verfolgen.
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The Think Tank Network Initiative will provide comprehensive information on think tank networks and their individual members(complete documentation of networks beyond the information advanced by the individual think tanks and networks). Such documentation aims to make it easier for experts and interested lay people alike to gain a better understanding of the think tank landscape and think tank politics in general. Beyond complete documentations of individual networks we aim to develop in depths research projects on specific subject matters. For example, we are interested to clarify if and to what extent networks yield a thematic cohesion capable of unifying political positions within thematic or partisan (ideological) networks and disseming such positions across netowrk borders. Independent from many other opportunities to interprete think tank efforts we understand think tank as organizations, which pursue particular aims in discourse communities and coalitions.
  
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Wir bieten:  
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We offer:  
  
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* Eine Übersicht über Think Tank Netzwerke und Ressourcen zur Analyse von Think Tank Netzwerken oder einzelnen Think Tanks (regelmäßig aktualisiert)
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* General Information on think tank network and ressources to study think tank networks and think tanks (will be updated on a regular basis)
  
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* Kritische Gesamtdokumentationen einzelner Think Tank Netzwerke (strukturierte Darstellung beteiligter Think Tanks und Personen)  
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* Critical documetnation of individual think tank networks (systematic features of organizations and indivduals)  
  
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* Vertiefende Analysen zu einzelnen (thematischen / organisatorischen ) Aspekten
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* Depths studies on specific (thematic / organizational) aspects
  
  
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===Aktuelle Projekte===
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===Present Projects===
  
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1) Dokumentation und vertiefende Analyse des Stockholm-Netzwerkes
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1) Documentation and depths studies of the Stockholm Network
  
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Das europäische Think Tank Netzwerk mit der größten Mitgliedszahl ist das weltanschaulich neoliberal ausgerichtete
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The most extensive European think tank network (currently 128 members) is the [[:Category:Think tanks | Stockholm Network]] [http://www.stockholm-network.org]. Apart from arranging the documentation of the network depths studies are underway on Stockholm Network acitivities in the field of financial market regulation and climate change politics (Werner Krämer, Berlin, funding from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung).
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[[:Category:Think tanks | Stockholm Network]] [http://www.stockholm-network.org]
 
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mit derzeit 128 angeschlossenen Instituten. Neben der Anlage einer Gesamtdokumentation werden die Beiträge des Netzwerkes zur aktuellen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sowie zur Klimawandelpolitik recherchiert (Werner Krämer, gefördert von der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung).
 
  
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2) Think Tanks in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Global Development Network
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2) Think Tanks in international Development: The Global Development Network
  
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GDNet [http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9825923/GDN/] (Matthias Schlögl)
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GDNet [http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9825923/GDN/] (Matthias Schlögl, Vienna)
  
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3) Special Issue Östereichisches Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 2/2010 "Global Development Network" (Gasteditor: Dieter Plehwe) http://www.mattersburgerkreis.at/jep/vorschau.php
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3) Special Issue Austrian Journal of Development Studies / Östereichisches Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 2/2010 "Global Development Network" (Gasteditor: Dieter Plehwe, Berlin) http://www.mattersburgerkreis.at/jep/vorschau.php
  
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4) Interpretative Policy Analysis Konferenz 23.-26. Juni in Grenoble, Panel 15 (Benoit Monange, Dieter Plehwe) [http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/exercising-power-through-expertise-and-more-the-role-of-private-policy-research-institutes-and-think-tanks-networks/ Exercising power through expertise and more ...]
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4) Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference June 23-26, 2010 in Grenoble, Panel 15 (Benoit Monange, Dieter Plehwe) [http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/exercising-power-through-expertise-and-more-the-role-of-private-policy-research-institutes-and-think-tanks-networks/ Exercising power through expertise and more ...]
 
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Revision as of 13:55, 4 June 2010

Think Tank Netzwerk Initiative

Welcome to the Think Tank Network Initiative! Think Tanks have become influential organizations both in expert circles and in public media. Social scientific research on think tanks at the same time has remained underdeveloped, and is not currently up to the task of adequately capturing and explaining the think tank phenomenon. The Think Tank Network Initiative has been founded to meet this challenge and to narrow the gap. In addition to becoming a home for a wide range of comparative think tank studies we also aim to advance the discussion on legal foundations of and other rules and regulations for think tanks. The Think Tank Network Initiative comes out in favor of comprehensive transparency rules for all think tanks, not for profit organizations and others. The need for research (and advocacy) in this area is particularly important in order to improve the conditions for think tank research in general. An example of a related project is provided by a group studying the regulation of lobbying acitivities [1]

History

A predecessor project named "buena vista neolibera?" has been founded back in the late 1990s in order to advance comparative think tank research. In 2008, a comparable "Think Tank Initiative" has been developed by researchers at the Social Science Research Council in New York City. Initiative on Think Tanks

Mission

In contrast to the U.S. based initiative we consciously decided in favor of the slightly modified name stressing networks because the overall think tank phenomenon has to be explained in light of frequently systematic efforts to link and coordinate think tanks. Frequently transnational networks of think tanks have become key actors and infrastructures in and for academic, policy and interest group purposes, expressing one aspect of the intensified socialization across borders in the present age of globalization. The InitiaThe tive thus aims to examine think tank landscapes in particular with regard to the resulting new opportunities of division of labor and action. While a particular focus has to be placed on the European Union, the initaitive does not restrict the attention to European network affairs. European network research has to include non-European think tanks, for example. Furthermore we are interested in covering global think tank networks like the Global Development Network, which has been founded under the auspices of the World Bank back in 1998.

The Think Tank Network Initiative will provide comprehensive information on think tank networks and their individual members(complete documentation of networks beyond the information advanced by the individual think tanks and networks). Such documentation aims to make it easier for experts and interested lay people alike to gain a better understanding of the think tank landscape and think tank politics in general. Beyond complete documentations of individual networks we aim to develop in depths research projects on specific subject matters. For example, we are interested to clarify if and to what extent networks yield a thematic cohesion capable of unifying political positions within thematic or partisan (ideological) networks and disseming such positions across netowrk borders. Independent from many other opportunities to interprete think tank efforts we understand think tank as organizations, which pursue particular aims in discourse communities and coalitions.

We offer:

  • General Information on think tank network and ressources to study think tank networks and think tanks (will be updated on a regular basis)
  • Critical documetnation of individual think tank networks (systematic features of organizations and indivduals)
  • Depths studies on specific (thematic / organizational) aspects


Present Projects

1) Documentation and depths studies of the Stockholm Network

The most extensive European think tank network (currently 128 members) is the Stockholm Network [2]. Apart from arranging the documentation of the network depths studies are underway on Stockholm Network acitivities in the field of financial market regulation and climate change politics (Werner Krämer, Berlin, funding from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung).

2) Think Tanks in international Development: The Global Development Network

GDNet [3] (Matthias Schlögl, Vienna)

3) Special Issue Austrian Journal of Development Studies / Östereichisches Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 2/2010 "Global Development Network" (Gasteditor: Dieter Plehwe, Berlin) http://www.mattersburgerkreis.at/jep/vorschau.php

4) Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference June 23-26, 2010 in Grenoble, Panel 15 (Benoit Monange, Dieter Plehwe) Exercising power through expertise and more ... en:Main Page

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