Overview
- Updates research on think tanks in the UK in the context of public debates on fiscal, monetary, and social policy between 2007-2013
- Explores ‘post-truth politics’ and the challenges organisations face when attempting to convince a mistrustful public of the authoritativeness of their work
- Provides a comparative analysis of think tanks across the political spectrum
- Includes a foreword by Professor Diane Stone, a world-leading expert on the study of think tanks.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKP)
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About this book
This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations modified their mode of public engagement to be seen as authoritative as possible by an ever more mistrustful public.
British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis connects sociological thinking on knowledge with research on policy change and the economic debate, through careful analysis of interviews, public accounts, and the ‘products’ of think tanks themselves.
González Hernando argues that demands for knowledge and advice that arose after the crisis energised the work of all four think tanks while also exposing internal tensions, affecting their sources of funding, transforming their institutional structure, and shaping how they engage with their audiences. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology of knowledge, political sociology, policy studies, economic history, communication, political economy, organisational sociology, and British politicsAuthors and Affiliations
About the author
Marcos González Hernando is Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Senior Researcher at Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC), and Managing Editor at Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Authors: Marcos González Hernando
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20370-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20369-6Published: 27 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20372-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20370-2Published: 14 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5805
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 295
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Public Policy, Intellectual Studies, Social Policy