Medvetz, Thomas. <br/><br/>
Think tanks in America / 

 - xiv, 324 p 
<br/><br/>Prologue: gaining ground: the rise of the policy expert -- Indistinction: rethinking the think tank -- Experts in the making: on the birth of technoscientific reason -- The crystallization of the space of think tanks -- The rules of policy research -- From deprivation to dependency: expert discourse and the American welfare debate -- Conclusion: anti-intellectualism, public intellectualism, and public  sociology revisited. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226517292 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0226517292 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780323052214 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Government consultants<br/>Research institutes<br/>Policy sciences<br/>Political planning
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>MED RCJK468.C7  / M43