Cover; Copyright; Title Page; About the Author; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Ideas That Matter; 1. What Do You Want to Achieve?; 2. What Do You Do That Makes a Unique Contributiont?; 3. Who Are Your Key Audiences and How Do You Reach Them?; 4. What Resources Do You Need and How Can You Develop Them?; 5. How Do You Evaluate Impact and Learn from Your Experience?; Notes; Interviews; Selected Readings
Summary
Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions-a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve impact or measure progress along these lines remains fuzzy and underexplored. What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide for Policy Impact is the first practical guide that is specifically tailored to think tanks, policy research, and advocacy organizations. Author Andrew Selee draws on extensive interviews with members of leading think tanks, as well as cutting-edge thinking in business
