Measuring Think Tank Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

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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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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhiru Sun
AU  - Zhiqiang Zhang
PY  - 2013/03
DA  - 2013/03
TI  - Measuring Think Tank Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 979
EP  - 982
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icibet.2013.214
DO  - 10.2991/icibet.2013.214
ID  - Sun2013/03
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