Think tank in EU governance

<b>Class 1, 15 September:</b>|| Mandatory readings:|| <ul> <li>Rediscovering a sense of purpose: the challenge for western think-tanks, Robin Niblett (available on ICAMPUS/MOODLE)</li> <li>Am I an academic?, Sven Biscop, available at: <a>https://www.egmontinstitute.be/am-i-an-academic/</a></li> <li>One policy brief on migration, on climate and foreign policy (To be sent by course convenor one week before)</li> </ul> Optional readings:|| <ul> <li>U.S. and German Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective, Josef Braml, available at:http://epa-journal.eu/download/4.-u.s.-and-german-think-tanks-in-comparative-perspective.pdf</li> <li>Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise? Recent Evidence from the United States and Elsewhere, Martin Thunert, available at: <a>http://epa-journal.eu/download/4.-u.s.-and-german-think-tanks-in-comparative-perspective.pdf</a></li> <li>Think Tanks as an Emergent Field, Thomas Matthew Medvetz, available at: <a>https://www.ssrc.org/publications/think-tanks-as-an-emergent-field/</a></li> </ul> <b>Class 2, 22 September:</b>|| Mandatory readings:|| <ul> <li>Why Everyone Hates Think Tanks The world needs policy professionals. Respecting them is another matter?, Matthew Rojansky and Jeremy Shapiro, available at: <a>https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/28/why-everyone-hates-think-tanks/</a></li> <li>What are think tanks for? Policy research in the age of anti-expertise, Rosa Balfour, available at: <a>https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/publications/updates/think-tanks</a></li> <li>3 Project proposals (To be sent by course convenor one week before).</li> </ul> Optional:|| <ul> <li>Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise? Recent Evidence from the United States and Elsewhere, Martin Thunert, available at: <a>http://epa-journal.eu/download/4.-u.s.-and-german-think-tanks-in-comparative-perspective.pdf</a></li> <li>What to Think About Think Tanks: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Strategic Think Tank Behaviour, Alexander Ruser, available at: <a>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-018-9278-x</a></li> </ul> <b>Class 3, 10 November:</b>|| Mandatory readings:|| <ul> <li>Shaping the Policy Agenda: Think Tank Activity in the European Union, Philippa Sherrington (available on ICAMPUS/MOODLE)</li> <li>Think Tanks and the Transnationalization of Foreign Policy, James G. McGann, available at: <a>https://www.jstor.org/stable/26322981</a></li> <li>The students are required to choose and watch one recorded public event available online organised by a think tank on either one of the three focus areas (migration, climate or foreign policy).</li> </ul> Optional readings:|| <ul> <li>Revisiting the think-tank phenomenon, Hartwig Pautz (attached)</li> </ul> <b>Class 4, 17 November:</b>|| Mandatory readings:|| <ul> <li>Measuring the Influence of Think Tanks, Murray Weidenbaum, available at: <a>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-009-9292-8</a></li> <li>Measuring Think Tank Performance An Index of Public Profile, Julia Clark and David Roodman, available at: <a>https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/think-tank-index_0_0.pdf</a></li> <li>One policy brief on migration, on climate or foreign policy (To be sent by course convenor one week before).</li> </ul> Optional reading:|| <ul> <li>What Difference does a Policy Brief Make? Penelope Beynon, Christelle Chapoy, Marie Gaarder and Edoardo Masset, available at: <a>https://www.weadapt.org/sites/weadapt.org/files/legacy-new//knowledge-base/files/1233/5241af740b49cfullreport-what-difference-does-a-policy-brief-make-2pdf-adobe-acrobat-pro.pdf</a></li> <li>2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, James G. McGann, available at: <a>https://repository.upenn.edu/bitstreams/8fa7709a-310d-43b2-bee6-94c49db23e41/download</a></li> </ul> <b>Class 5, 24 November:</b>|| Mandatory readings:|| <ul> <li>EPC writing guidelines (available on ICAMPUS/MOODLE)</li> <li>The New Practice of Public Problem Solving, Tara Dawson McGuinness an