Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)

Measuring Think Tank Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

Authors
Zhiru Sun, Zhiqiang Zhang
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Zhiru Sun
Available Online March 2013.
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10.2991/icibet.2013.214How to use a DOI?
Abstract

Measuring think tank influence is crucial to explain policy outcomes and to assess the action of think tank. This article therefore presents a new method for measuring this type of influence, drawing on quantitative text analysis. By compar-ing think tanks’ policy position with the final policy output, one can assess the preference realization of think tanks in the decision-making process. The method is illustrated by a case regarding the in-fluence of environment think tanks on Obama Government.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
March 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-57-4
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icibet.2013.214How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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