Business-Managed Democracy

• Introduction

• National Government
• Business Lobbies
  • Business Roundtable
  • National Manufacturers
  • British Industry
  • More British Groups
  • Australian Business
  • NZ Business
  • European Roundtable
• Policy Groups
  • National Civic Fed.
  • The Conference Board
  • Foreign Relations
  • CED
  • ALEC
  • State Policy Network
  • The Business Council
  • Overlaps
  • Interconnections
  • Britain and Australia
• Think Tanks
  • How They Work
  • British Think Tanks
  • US Think Tanks
  • Australian Tanks
• Consultants
  • UK Government
  • McKinsey & Co
  • Boston Consulting
• Corporate Reach
  • Funding/Personnel
  • Wealthy Foundations
  • Policy Process
  • Revolving Door
  • Deep State
• References

• International Coercion

• Privatisation

• The Trade Agenda

• Trade in Services


 

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Business-Managed Government

Think Tanks

Think tanks have become essential vehicles of business propaganda and policy marketing. Rather than just react to proposed government policies, in the 1970s US corporations began to more actively initiate policies and shepherd them through the policy-making process till they became government policy. Think tanks enabled them to do this. The more government was attacked and its role reduced, the more freedom and opportunities were provided to business.

How They Work
British Think Tanks	IEA CPS Adam Smith Inst.
US Think Tanks	AEI Heritage Fdn Cato Institute
Australian Tanks	CIS Defunct Tanks IPA Linkages

In most English speaking countries, conservative think tanks have been influential in promoting a conservative pro-business reform agenda and ‘widening the parameters of ‘respectable’ opinion.’ As a result free market ideas have come to dominate all policy issues.

Links

• 'Think Tanks', SourceWatch
• Think Tank Watch
• James McGann, 'The Think Tank Index', Foreign Policy, January/February 2009.