Examines the place of think tanks in global politics within the structure of power

Considers the role of think tanks in key organizational networks which enable them to produce and disseminate policy ideas

Provides an international study of think tanks across Mexico, Australia, Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom

Autorentext

Alejandra Salas-Porras is Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her professional experience has concentrated in the academic sphere, combining teaching and research activities. Her lines of interest revolve around the following topics: Elites and development on the national, regional and global levels; the Political economy of development and Business and corporate networks

Georgina Murray is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.She has research interests in areas of political economy that include networks of corporate capitalism, work, gender, and social inequality and its relationship to neuroscience. Her books include Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand (2006), Women of the Coal Rushes (2010) and Financial Elites and Transnational Business: Who Rules the World? (2012).

Inhalt
Think tanks and global politics: Key spaces in the structure of power.- Think tank networks in Mexico: How they shape public policy and dominant discourses.- The Australian think tank: A key site in a global distribution of power?.- Power without representation: The coherence and closeness of the Trilateral Commission.- The Bilderberg Conferences: A transnational informal governance network.- The rise and decline of the Business Roundtable?.- Neoliberal think tank networks in Latin America and Europe: Strategic replication and cross-national organizing.- Counter-hegemonic projects and cognitive praxis in transnational alternative policy groups.- From research to reality: Developing a radical left think tank in New Zealand as counterhegemonic praxis in a previously empty space.- Why establish non-representative organisations? Rethinking the role, form and target of think tanks.