ABSTRACT
The chapter criticises the Anglo-American bias in typologies in the literature on think tanks and develops an analytical typology based on differences in think tank funding and their consensual or adversarial strategies. It suggests that a typology that distinguishes how different think tanks are funded and develop strategies for engaging in policy-making is useful to the comparative study of think tanks. Studies emphasise that advocacy think tanks can work transnationally and engage in global coalitions often within a neo-liberal framework. In the process of applying the typology to each think tank, experiences from other researchers were useful. Publicly funded research institutes (PFRI) are think tanks that resemble research institutes in their approach to policy-making. Policy Exchange (PE) in the UK is another example of a think tank that challenges the typology. PE is organised on a project basis and is a network-centric organisation.
