OTT Conference 2021 | Think tanks: global reach, global perspectives

This session at the OTT Conference 2021 was organised by Christopher Rastrick (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Donald Abelson (Brian Mulroney Institute of Government and St. Francis Xavier University)

Speakers: Heidi Ullrich (ICANN), Karlyn Bowman (American Enterprise Institute), and Nana de Graaf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

With the recent release of the “Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy”, several of the groundbreaking authors explored key discussions and debates within the think tank literature. Furthermore, this session explored both practitioner and scholastic approaches to situating these organisations in the highly volatile and generation-defining public policy context of recent years. Hosted by the handbook’s editors—Don Abelson and Chris Rastrick—this session took stock of the current discourse on think tanks, but offered ideas on where the literature could (or perhaps should) head.

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The OTT Conference 2021 was held online from 20 - 22 April. The conference was co-hosted by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). The main topic of the conference was think tanks and change, and we invited speakers to reflect on this from different perspectives and through their own experiences.

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