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Diplomats of Ideas and Networks of Norms: How European Think Tanks and European Foundations Are Shaping the Policy-Making
The main idea, here, is to present studies and researches presented at several conferences (IPSA, ISA, ECPR..) trough Panels I have been organised and also trough seminars specifically designed to gather academic informations on european think tanks. As such, it could be at first a kind of mile-stone regarding european think tanks and the researches done on this subject.
We generally agreed on the fact that, funded by private and public sources, these networks are organizational actors specialized in gathering and assembling forms of authority conferred by the more established institutions of academics, politics, business and the media. As a consequence, hybrid interstitial policy fields are emerging, where a variety of ideational entrepreneurs already play a major role in the conception and implementation of policy ideas.
Our Paper aims,consequently, trough the presentation of several researches, to study the interplay of negotiations/impositions of ideas (values and norms) between political players at all scales. It could be, therefore, a valuable start for a discussion with researches done in other part of the world, also using think tanks als tools for observing the circulations of ideas/elites/norms and how a global governance is possiblity emerging.