Think tanks, policy-making, and a Dutch advisory council

Maarten Mentzel

Science and Public Policy, 1999, vol. 26, issue 3, 171-178

Abstract: Think tanks, broadly defined as experts engaged in contemplating the future and in formulating policy recommendations in a wide range of spheres, are usually independent of the ruling establishment. The Netherlands seems to be an exception among countries of the western world in so far as the influential Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) is part of the governmental realm. As an institution lying between science and politics, this position raises some special questions. One conclusion drawn here is that precisely because the WRR is embedded in government, the Council feels a particularly strong need to seek publicity. Its high profile tends to give the advice of the WRR an added impact. It is common knowledge that scholars who are consulted by political bodies also engage in politics themselves. The WRR is a case in point. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1999
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