Think-Tanks Today: Still Playing the Game?

Abstract

The focus of this book has been on the years between 1992 and 2005. This last chapter is dedicated to the development of think-tanks in Britain and Germany since 2005. To place these developments in a wider context, this chapter also looks at the politics and policies in both countries during these years and refers back to the outline in Chapter 1 of both countries’ think-tank landscapes. However, as I want to explore whether these institutions have remained close to governments and parties, whether they changed their modi operandi and how the relationship between think-tanks and British and German governments developed in a changing environment, the focus stays on the two sets of think-tanks analysed in the main part of the book.