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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2017  
         
  Article:   THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THINK TANKS IN THE EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE.

Authors:  ROSETTA COLLURA, PIERRE VERCAUTEREN.
 
       
         
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2017.1.02

Published Online: 2017-03-15
Published Print: 2017-03-30

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ABSTRACT:
The complex nature of the European Union has mainly been theorized through the governance process. In a global perspective, the concept of governance refers to an interdependence between state and non-state actors. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical perspectives about actions of think tanks in a governance process. It shall be focused on think tanks, analyzed as knowledge organizations. Therefore this article shall investigate the strategies developed by think tanks in order to create a power dependency in the European governance.

Keywords: Think tanks, European governance, policy networks, power dependence, knowledge.

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