British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

• Main Author: González Hernando, Marcos (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
• Subjects: Political sociology.; Sociology.; Economic sociology.; Public policy.; Intellectual life-History.; Social policy.; Political Sociology.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Public Policy.; Intellectual Studies.; Social Policy.

This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations modified their mode of public engagement to...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Thinking Under Pressure: Think Tanks and Policy Advice After 2008
• 2. How Thinking Takes Place in Think Tanks
• 3. The New Economics Foundation: Crisis as a Missed Opportunity
• 4. The Adam Smith Institute: The Free Market's Praetorian Guard
• 5. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research: The Shifting Fortunes of Expert Arbiters
• 6. Policy Exchange: The Pros and Cons of Political Centrality
• 7. Conclusions: Intervening on Shifting Sands
• Afterword: For a Comparative Sociology of Intellectual Change.