Politics

Clara Richards

Jun 30, 20154 min

Why African Think Tanks Should Lead the Youth Migration Policy Debate

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Diakalia Sanogo and Julie Lafrance, Senior Program Specialists at the Think Tank Initiative.]...

Leandro Echt

Nov 27, 20147 min

The role of evidence in policy making: “Within politics we will never have perfect information”

http://www.leonardogarnier.com/ [Editor’s Note: Leonardo Garnier has been Minister of Education of Costa Rica for two consecutive terms...

Clara Richards

Nov 11, 20145 min

The 3Ps: Politics, Policymaking and Politicians

For a decade and a half now, I have been exposed to what I call the 3Ps – politics, policymaking, and politicians. Particularly, my work...

Clara Richards

Apr 1, 20143 min

Power and ideology are the keys to communicating research

[Editor’s Note: This post is a reflection on the webinar ‘Nevermind the research piece! Communicating in Policy Environments’. It was...

Clara Richards

Feb 18, 20142 min

Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword

[Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of blogs by Claudio Jones on partisan think tanks. The first post can be read here, and...

Clara Richards

Jan 6, 20144 min

What do partisan think tanks seek?

Is the political role of partisan think tanks -in Latin America’s new democracies and elsewhere- equivalent to the standard concept of...