A Partial List of Think Tanks Links, Coming From Many Political Viewpoints Uses of Think Tanks and

I have found think tanks interesting for a long time, although it is only in the last couple of years that I
started accessing them regularly online. Lately I've been collecting the think thank names and addresses that I'm coming across in newspaper articles (and elsewhere). Now I don't agree politically with all of these think tanks. In fact I disagree strongly with some of them. If you want to know which think tanks I find the most interesting you can look on my sidebar under think tanks and other organizations. This isn't by any way a complete list of think tanks either. I can think of some Canadian and International think tanks I haven't added. But that is because I haven't been there recently (since I started keeping better track of them...Including those that don't follow my interests or politics at all, but still look potentially useful).

Think tanks can be a useful way to come across information, even information that you disagree with. You can go look, think about what they are writing and it can give you ideas. When I was in school I regularly used the books of a particular institute that I felt had to be close to the US government when studying elections (It may have been a PAC or related to one, I never did figure out it's exact ties, and I never really bothered after I classified it as likely being tied in some way). It had a wide range of authors writing about the election in different countries (different years). They used wide variety of authors who wrote about elections in the country in question (for example elections for feminist viewpoints and conservative viewpoints). Some of that material could be used but often the footnotes in the articles were the most useful and provided a range of authors that could be quite varied and useful So here is a (incomplete) list of think tanks. These are the one's I've come across lately (and I've included the one's I tend to like reading from the list on the right). I thought it might interest other people especially as I've been coming across a number of think tanks from the UK lately that aren't all that familiar, many of which I had never heard about before. The list is alphabetical. No preference is given to any listing.

• Caledonia Institute for Social Policy


• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives


• Canadian Policy Research Network


• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of women


• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


• C.D. Howe Institute


• The Center for Security Policy


• Center For Strategic and International Studies


• Centre for Economic Policy Research* (CEPR)


• Demos


• Institute for Public Policy Research


• The Mackenzie Institute


• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research


• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


• The World Conservation Union (IUCN)


• World Fish Center


• World Resources Institute

*please note that centre is spelt in the British way and this is why this entry is further down in the alphabetising.