Think tanks in North America

Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 37-66

  Abelson, Donald E ^a   Lindquist, Evert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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