ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the implications that these differences have had upon competition, incentives for original research, and collaboration between other think tanks in the American and supranational think tank communities. It analyses three main macro-level differences that exist between supranational and American think tanks, with constituent elements for each. Namely, the roles, priorities, and relationships between stakeholders are going to be comparatively interrogated. One of the fundamental differences between the American and supranational think tank models rests in their divergent roles – roles that naturally elicit different priorities that they pursue. The chapter demonstrates that American and supranational think tanks pursue different roles with concomitantly different priorities, it is also important to provide a brief consideration of how these roles/priorities impact the natural – or targeted – constituencies of these different think tank models. The main priority of American think tanks centers on creating an impression of 'influence' in the American policymaking process.
