Diane Stone - Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process

CAPTURING THE
POLITICAL
IMAGINATION

Think Tanks and
the Policy Process

DIANE STONE

First published in 1996 in Great Britain by
FRANK CASS & CO. LTD.
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon,
Oxon, OX14 4RN

and in the United States of America by
FRANK CASS
270 Madison Ave,
New York NY 10016

Transferred to Digital Printing 2005

Copyright 1996 Diane Stone

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Stone, Diane
Capturing the political imagination: think-tanks and the policy process
1. Research institutes Great Britain 2. Research institutes United States 3. Research institutes Great BritainPolitical aspects 4. Research institutes United States Political aspects 5. Political planning Great Britain
I. Title
320.6'0941

ISBN 0-7146-4716-0 (cloth)
ISBN 0-7146-4263-0 (pbk)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stone, Diane, 1964
Capturing the political imagination : think-tanks and the policy
process / Diane Stone.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7146-4716-0 (hardcover). -- ISBN 0-7146-4263-0 (pbk.)
1. Policy sciences. 2. Research institutes--United States. 3. Research institutes--Great Britain. I. Title.
H97.S833 1996
320'.6--dc20

96-12700
CIP

This book has taken far too long over four years to write. Accordingly I have many debts to acknowledge. I am very grateful to friends and colleagues at the Australian National University, Murdoch University and the Manchester Metropolitan University who have given me support and encouragement: Tomoko Akami, Jillian Bavin-Mizzi, Frances Daly, Lorraine Elliott, Gillie Kirk, and Halina Zobel-Zubrzycka in Australia, and in the UK, Shafquat Nasir, Gail Hawkes, Kate McGowan and Caroline Ukoumunne. In Australia, my research and writing has benefited from the helpful comments on drafts of my manuscript from John Hart, Martin Painter and Patrick Weller. Beryl Radin at Rockefeller College, University of Albany, in the USA also provided me with useful suggestions and Kent Weaver at the Brookings Institution was helpful early on in providing me with material. I am also grateful to the Australian National University for providing me with the resources to undertake the research on this book. Additionally, since 1994 the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK has generously allowed me the time to finalise my writing on this study of think- tanks through their Research Fellowship scheme. Finally, I am very grateful to Richard Higgott who read everything several times with considerable patience and forbearance.