Table of Contents: British think-tanks and the climate of opinion /

Main Author:	Denham, Andrew.
Other Authors:	Garnett, Mark,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Bristol, Pa. : UCL Press, 1998.
Subjects:	Government consultants > Great Britain. Research institutes > Great Britain. Policy sciences. Public opinion > Great Britain. Political planning > Great Britain. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General. Government consultants. Political planning. Politics and government Public opinion. Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century. Great Britain.
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Table of Contents:

HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DEDICATION; Introduction: British think-tanks and the climate of opinion in the twentieth century; An American phenomenon?; The problem of definition; What is the role of think-tanks?; A closed system of government?; The Fabian Society and the British think-tank tradition; Summary; CHAPTER 1 Political and economic planning; Origins and early days; PEP in the 1930s; The Second World War: 1939-45; The first post-war programme: 1945-53; European studies: 1956-78; Constitutional and domestic policy studies: 1954-78.