think tanks
3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2024 by Ryan Streeter · across every show →
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Nov 20, 2024 neutral
Streeter says most tenured professors lack experience converting research into policy briefs
“A lot of people that are tenured professors in a department, they don't have experience converting their research into kind of policy briefs or whatever. And that's what think tanks can do for them is to take their research and make it digestible for people th…”
Nov 20, 2024 neutral
Streeter says Washington think tanks wield true influence in private closed-door briefings
“All think tanks in Washington have a lot of public events, you know, that, you know, you can live stream them, you can come and hear scholars talk. But I always felt like the most important work that we did was the stuff that wasn't on camera. It was the stuff…”
Nov 20, 2024
Streeter says Bush White House held summer briefings with think tank scholars
“We used to have like every summer, we would have the heads of think tanks from around Washington and also even outside just do, handpick some of their own scholars and bring them in for like a ninety-minute briefing, and we'd have the president's economic advi…”