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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Think Tank"”.
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Scientific consensus on manmade global warming: think tank influence on public opinion through news media
<p>This study examined the influence of think tanks, in the news media, on public opinion of what most scientists believe about the cause of global warming.</p> <p>The researcher performed a content analysis on two national newspapers spanning May through July, 2006, the three months surrounding …
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Health Educators as a Think Tank: Recommendations to Improve Health Care Reform Proposals and Potential Roles for the Profession
Health care reform has been a controversial topic in America since the early 1900s (PBS, 2010). Today, the United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation (National Center for Health Statistics, 2011), but despite spending more, the U.S. has 46.3 million citizens who …
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Who shapes agricultural transformation in Africa? exploring the case of the alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) from a think tank perspective
… and international policy expertise is the think tank. With their particular competencies, environmentally-related and climate change related think tanks have become key actors in modern environmental governance systems. Since many African countries have a high proportion of smallholder …
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Chinese Intellectuals and China's Policy Toward Japan
… the role of two intellectual groups, namely think tank scholars and popular nationalist, in China's Japan policy making, and then based on these analyses it explains the interactional patterns between these two intellectual groups and party-state. I used three case studies, which represented …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
… The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has seldom been considered in this context. This research thus poses the following three research questions: i) Does a policy network currently exist between government policy makers and university researchers? ii) Is there value in …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
… The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has seldom been considered in this context. This research thus poses the following three research questions: i) Does a policy network currently exist between government policy makers and university researchers? ii) Is there value in …
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Primordial Identities, Bounded Territories, and Contemporary Violence?: American Geopolitical Perspectives on the Middle East's Cultural Landscapes
… coverage along with government, military, and think tank documents. The second set of texts focuses on the Arab Spring and are comprised of American media coverage, think tank reports, and academic commentary. My findings show that in most of these materials, it is assumed that the …
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
A Political Theatre, Think Tank and School of Representation at the Union Buildings are created in response to questions regarding identity, authenticity and authority within post-1994 South African Architecture. The design is investigated by means of a journey through power, the urban and the …
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Re-thinking highest and best use : implementing smart development in support of smart growth : a case study in Santa Fe, NM
… as statistics from local Santa Fe government and think tank sources, and finds that housing for the population between 100-120% of area median income is a significant unmet need.
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The academic origins of John F. Kennedy's new frontier
… the Boston area and formed his own personal think tank in much the same way that Franklin D. Roosevelt did before his Presidential campaign of 1932. Unlike Roosevelt, Kennedy did not call his group a Brains Trust, instead he chose to call his collection of professors the Academic Advisory …
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Systems of valuation
… Sponsored by the Club of Rome, an influential think-tank established in 1968, the report was published against the backdrop of the progressive activism of the 1960s, and prefigured the neo-conservative politics of the 1980s. It represented a decisive moment in that it appeared to reconcile …
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Modelling the Supply and Demand for Construction and Building Services Skills in the Black Country
… of industry stakeholders served as a research ‘think tank’ for validating empirical results, and in line with the theory of construct validity, instruments of survey were designed and operationalized in a pilot and major surveys of supply and demand sides’ target groups. Employing the relative …
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RE/placing public art: the role of place specificity in new genre public art
… enquiry, conversation as a method, a think-tank, interviews, and video documentation to uncover how a group of public art practitioners reflect on place-specificity within their work, how they utilise place, and are influenced by place. The research reflects on the potential of …
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The plantation network : Brazilian bioenergy science and sustainability in the global South
… "wild" yeasts to digest sugarcane bagasse, and a think tank of agronomic economists seeking to transfer a "Brazilian biofuel model" to Lusophone Mozambique. For these scientists, Brazil's long history of sugarcane is coming to center on ethoses and practices of what they call "sustentabilidade" …
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Navigating Through U.S.-China Policy: An Investigation of China National Off-Shore Oil Corporation's Proposed Acquisition of Unocal Corporation and How Domestic Politics Plays a Role in Balancing U.S. Trade Policy with National Security Policy
… sources include the media, journals, and think-tank publications.</p> <p>The study examines how the president and Congress rely upon formal rules for making policy, and how these rules reinforce the status quo and create obstacles for change. Over the years, the president has acquired …
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The significance of social enterprises in the reform of the British welfare state
… ministerial speeches, newspaper articles, think tank publications, and interviews with policy-makers and advocates for the social enterprise sector, provide the evidence presented here.<br/>The research develops a definition of the social enterprise as an organisation that uses a commercial …
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Exploring the Political Roles of Chinese Think Tanks: A Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project Decision-Making
… of People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese think tanks have experienced significant development during the transformative process of China's political reform and modernization, and their influence has become more notable than before. However, think tanks historically have been given little …
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Work-life balance and stress levels: a case study of indaba agricultural policy research institute (IAPRI) employees.
… is a premier agricultural research and outreach think tank in Zambia. The performance of IAPRI as measured through its outputs in the period 2014 to 2017 was exemplary as on average, output performance exceeded 78 percent of the planned annual targets. Despite this impressive performance, the …
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