The Centers Cannot Hold: What’s the Next Step for Think Tanks?

... moment we are in and provides a list of trends that are troubling the thinking community. He singles out three trends in particular: First, the explosive development of communication technologies has thrown think tanks in the same playing field as the media. Research consumers in government build their understanding of the quality of work carried out by think tanks, among other things, on their reputation among the general public, which makes think tanks fight for mentions and coverage my media outlets....