think-tank

think-tank
   A group formed to research and develop policy proposals and campaign for their acceptance among opinion formers and policy makers. Think-tanks are often ideologically based, their ideas sometimes being influential with the parties with which they share a broad affinity. They become especially important after 1970, when organisations such as the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies pushed for radical changes in social and economic policy and exerted intellectual influence on Conservative thinking. Thinktanks associated with progressive politics include Demos and the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Glossary of UK Government and Politics . 2013.

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