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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Rocco, Philip. "Claiming Expertise and Authority: The Brookings Institution’s Multiple Identities and the Think Tank in Twentieth Century American Political Development" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p361113_index.html>

Rocco, P. B. , 2009-04-02 "Claiming Expertise and Authority: The Brookings Institution’s Multiple Identities and the Think Tank in Twentieth Century American Political Development" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-03-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p361113_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Moving away from an understanding of think tanks (or public policy research institutes) as a occupying an irreducible role in American politics, as either policy entrepreneurs, technical advisors, academic organizations, or some type of more nebulous ‘power elite’ or ‘shadow government’, this study suggests that think tanks do not claim authority by virtue of structural features in the American political system alone. Nor does historical contingency alone explain why think tanks have become part of the American policymaking process. Instead, I argue that think tanks deploy context-specific institutionalization strategies that allow them to claim a more robust authority. To do this, I deploy relevant theoretical tools from the subfields of American Political Development (APD), Intellectual History, and Organizational Sociology (OS) to explain how the Brookings Institution institutionalized itself as part of the normal process of policymaking in the early twentieth century.

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