Donald S Abelson

Northern Lights: Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape

Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon. Although the largest concentration of think tanks is in the United States, they can be found in virtually every country. Often overlooked, Canada’s think tanks represent a highly diverse and eclectic group of public policy organizations s...

Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics: Pathways to Influence

Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase i...

Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This pe...

Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America: Newcomers in Turbulent Times (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, Series Two)

Human migration has reached an unprecedented level, and the numbers are expected to continue growing into the foreseeable future. Host societies and migrants face challenges in ensuring that the benefits of migration accrue to both parties, and that economic and socio-cultural costs are minimized. A...

Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes by Donald E. Abelson (2009-09-01)

Northern Lights by Donald E. Abelson (2016-11-01)

Presidential Studies Quarterly : Eisenhower & Crusade for Freedom; to Defeat a Maverick -The Goldwater Candidacy Revisited; Former Governors Perceptions of Line Item Vetoes; Harry Truman and the Dixiecrats (Vol. XXVII No. 4 Fall 1997)

Do Think Tanks Matter?: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes 2 Rev Exp Edition by Abelson, Donald E. published by McGill-Queen's University Press