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James McGann

James McGann is a senior fellow and director of the Think-tanks and Civil Societies Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. His new book Academics, Advisors and Advocate: Think-tanks and Policy Advice in the US will be published in spring 2006.

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US think-tanks: casualties in the war of ideas

The partisanship of modern American politics is narrowing the agendas of think-tanks of left and right. James McGann asks what can be done to raise the quality of debate.