Look at most think tanks.
Most think tanks claim that they conduct research to inform the public and the government on how to improve public policy.
Most think tanks keep an eye out for and, indeed, welcome academic work which, in their eyes anyway, supports whatever contention or policy they are trying hard to push.
Most think tanks engage primarily cerebrally -- but I'd like to engage visually, artistically, emotionally as well.
However, as long as most think tanks remain opaque, it will remain impossible for stakeholders in these debates to separate the wheat from the chaff.
According to the Carnegie Endowment for Peace's Jessica Mathews "the weakness of most think tanks is they view the published product as 95percentt," failing to properly reach the "hands and heads of people that can use it".
Last week the Council on Foreign Relations -- that oldest and, depending on your perspective, most august, or most mysterious, think tank on global affairs -- convened the most recent of its "Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop" gatherings.
The Wall Street Journal has called the Mercatus Center "the most important think tank you've never heard of," and noted that fourteen of the twenty-three regulathats that President George W. Bush placed on a "hit list" had been suggested first by Mercatus scholars.
WASHINGTON — As Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's largest home builders, pushed ahead with an $8 billion plan to revitalize a barren swath of San Francisco, it found a trusted voice to vouch for its work: the Brookings Institution, the most prestigious think tank in the world.
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which is arguably the most vocal think tank opposed to HS2, predicts that costs will be greater while the economic benefits will be lower than the government has forecast.
