Think tanks in America - Medvetz, Thomas
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.
Keywords: Government consultants; Research institutes; Policy sciences; Political planning