TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medvetz,Thomas
TI  - Think tanks in America
SN  - 9780226517292 (cloth : alkaline paper)
AV  - MED RCJK468.C7 M43 
KW  - Government consultants
KW  - Research institutes
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Political planning
N1  - 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
ER  -