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Think Tank Network Research Initiative Meeting in Brussels

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Dieter Plehwe <[log in to unmask]>

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Dieter Plehwe <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:33:36 +0200

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Hi everyone,

those of us who were at the SASE conference in Madrid have looked into a 
meeting in Brussels in October. We tentatively agreed on a couple of 
days in the 42nd week (October 17-21). We now learned that the Alter EU 
network is holding its assembly meeting on October 14. Will Dinan needs 
to be there and would like to see if we could push the Think Tank 
Network Research Initiative meeting to October 13.

If we can do that i think it would be wise to arrrive on Wednesday, 
October 12 to start the meeting in the evening, work all day Thursday 
and finish with a public presentation / discussion Thursday evening. 
Alter EU people might already be there to join the public event, and I 
am sure that the Alter EU network meeting would be open to individuals 
who would like to participate in this meeting the following day to look 
into an element of European "counter think tankery", though we may have 
to ascertain this with the steering committee of Alter EU.

Who could and would like to come on October 12-13???

I can and would be happy to see if I can find some funding for people 
who need help with travel cost (from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, for example).

The purpose of the meeting is to develop a framework for a project 
proposal to be submitted to the European Science foundation or other 
possible funding agencies asap. Everyone who would like to participate 
in such a hopefully Europe wide research project should try to come to 
help framing the research agenda. Later participation is not excluded if 
you can't come to the meeting, of course, but I hope we will succeed in 
developing a convincing program in Brussels to move forward in due course.

As far as I can see it so far the key dependend variable is 
transnational research, consulting and advocacy/lobby networks (like the 
climate change sceptic discourse coalition) with a particular focus on 
their organizational infrastructure, namely the rising think tank 
networks (that can include university isntitutes, private corporations, 
private or public foudnations etc.; think tank networks is in a way a 
short cut for expert/consutling/advocacy or lobby networks).

Key difference to traditional comparative think tank studies: 
transnational networks rather than national organizations, which 
requires to think of national systems as open systems and interrelated 
system. Interrellated systems in the EU consist of vertically 
interrelated and horizontally interrelated systems (multi-level system 
as key "logic of supranational influence", which is considered an 
important explanatory variable in addition to "logics of 
constituency/membership" (e.g. differences between more academic/expert 
constituencies and more straightforward corporate or social movement 
constituencies or the particular mixes)

To clearly specify both the independent and dependent variables we need 
to move into thematic fields. So far we considered the environmental 
policy area a promising field, but we should have a few more options. We 
need at least two different thematic fields I would say, and they should 
have the potential to allow important differences with regard to 
(powerful / competing) transnational expert/consulting/lobby or advocacy 
groups) that can be used to better explain network differences and or 
influence differences (obviously related to composition / resources, the 
repsective worlds of ideas / competences, institutional configuration 
and what not). network analysis sure is one promising tool to be 
exploited in the pursuit of this study.


So much in terms of reminding myself of what we have been discussing / 
thinking so far: please come back with information and the commitment to 
participate and or comments / written contributions / suggestions of any 
kind / ideas about promising thematic fields or concrete transnational 
expert/consulting/lobby networks to be studied...

I am looking forward to hearing from you

Dieter








-- 
Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe
- Internationalisierung und Organisation -
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Deutschland

Telefon +49 - 30 - 25491 - 102
Telefax +49 - 30 - 25491 - 118

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