Measuring Think Tank Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

摘要：

　　Measuring think tank influence is crucial to explain pohcy outcomes and to assess the action of think tank.This article therefore presents a new method for measuring this type of influence,drawing on quantitative text analysis.By comparing think tankspolicy position with the final policy output,one can assess the preference realization of think tanks in the decision-making process.The method is illustrated by a case regarding the influence of environment think tanks on Obama Government.

关键词： think tank quantitative text analysis influence Wordfish

作者: Sun Zhiru Zhang Zhiqiang

作者单位: Center for International Agricultural Economics,Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Science Lanzhou Branch of Natinonal Science Library,Chinese Academy of Science

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (2013信息、商业与教育技术国际会议(ICIBET 2013))

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 636-639

在线出版日期: 2013-03-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）