http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2004/08/26#foundations <P>This is a place-holder; it needs a better name, which I hope will come from thinking things through. <P>See also: <a href="intellectuals.html">Intellectuals</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>John B. Judis, <cite>The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust</cite> <li>Michael Lind, <cite>Up from Conservativism</cite> [Especially the chapter on what he calls "the triangular trade"] <li>Mark Schmitt, "Philanthropy is My Co-Pilot", <cite>The American Prospect</cite> 29 April 2010 [<a href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=philanthropy_is_my_copilot">online</a>] <li>Theda Skocpol, "The Narrowing of Civic Life", <cite>The American Prospect</cite>, June 2004, pp. 45--47 [<a href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_narrowing_of_civic_life">Online</a>] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Donald E. Abelson, <cite>Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes</cite> <li>Kenneth T. Andrews and Bob Edwards, "Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process", <cite>Annnual Review of Sociology</cite> <strong>30</strong> (2004): 479--506 [<a href="10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110542">link</A>] <li>Lucy Bernholz, <cite>Creating Phlanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution</cite> [<a href="http://www.blueprintrd.com/book.htm">Author's book site</a>] <li>Philip H. Burch, <cite>Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power, and Policy</cite> <li>Mary Ellen S. Capek and Molly Mead, <cite>Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-0337-2">Blurb</a>] <li>Paul Dickson, <cite>Think Tanks</cite> <li>Mark Dowie, <cite>American Foundations: An Investigative History</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262541416">Blurb</a>] <li>Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, <cite>Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design</cite> <li>Virgina Gray and David Lowery, <cite>The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the United States</cite> <li>Tim Lambert, "When Think Tanks Attack" [<a href="http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/06/23#tanks">link</a> and related] <li>Thomas Medvetz, "Hybrid intellectuals: Toward a theory of think tanks and public policy experts in the United States" [<a href="http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/Medvetz.hybrid.pdf">PDF draft</a>. Via <a href="">Henry Farrell</a>.] <li>Andrew Rich, <cite>Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/052183029X">Blurb</a>] <li>Joan Roelofs, <cite>Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism</cite> <li>Theda Skocpol <ul> <li><cite>Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life</cite> <li>"Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy", <cite>Perspectives on Politics</cite> <strong>2</strong> (2004): 3--20 </ul> <li>Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, <cite>No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda</citE> </ul>