PSCI 3325 Lecture 4: SEPT 17
18 Oct 2016
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Organizations that are nonprofit organizations that are formed for the purpose of studying issues and promoting policy proposals. Promote on expertise, and not partisan things: they rely on foundation support. Academics: come up with suggestions, not usually the immediate source of policy proposals. Because of differences in time frame and incentives. Ex: publishing in higher academic journals is more on research than policy proposals and incentive of outside job proposals or promotion. Takes a while also to conduct a study. Academics are not willing to push for something until it is in the peer review stage, where the idea is more testifiable which can take years. Congress does not want to wait for years: think tanks do use academics for information. Interest groups: you know what their position is by name or affiliation or cause, lobbyist, bills can be written by interest groups that hand them to congress member and tweak and run with it.
