TTCSP was established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989. It began with its focus on think tanks in the US. In the 1990s, the program became increasingly global as a result of the political and economic transformation that took place in Central and Eastern Europe.[6]R. Kent Weaver[7] of the Brookings Institution and James McGann of the Foreign Policy Research Institute were asked to help conceptualize what became the Global Development Network, a World Bank sponsored conference in Barcelona, Spain.[8] This resulted in the publication Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action in 2000.[6] In 2008, the TTCSP moved to the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Global Go To Think Tank Index
McGann and the Program published the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index.[9] As of 2010, the Index is based on a three-phase survey whose participants include politicians, scientists, think tank donors, and think tanks.[10] However, this method of the study and assessment of policy institutes has been criticized by researchers such as Enrique Mendizabal and Goran Buldioski, Director of the Think Tank Fund, assisted by the Open Society Institute.[11][12]
^Foreign Policy Research Institute, "Think Tanks and Foreign Policy Program", 2001–2010, "Source 1Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine", 6 July 2010
^International Relations @ UPenn, "2009 Global Rankings of Think Tanks", 2010, "Source 7Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine", 6 July 2010
^ abForeign Policy Research Institute, "Selected List of Publications", 2001–2010, "Source 5Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine", 6 July 2010
^Global Development Network, "Global Development Network (GDN): Background and History", 2010, "Source 4Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine", 6 July 2010
[1]Archived 8 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine – provides information on the Global Development Network, including its mission, history, research priorities, and publications.
