CASE ranks 3rd in the Top 25 Leading Think Tanks in Eastern Europe

The 2008 Global Go-To Think Tanks Index is the work of James G. McGann, director of the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania.  It is the first comprehensive ranking of some of the leading think tanks around the world. 

The Index is based on a worldwide survey of hundreds of scholars and experts and is reported in the January/February 2009 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4598&page=0.

Copies of the full report can also be downloaded at the University of Pennsylvania’s International Relations website:
www.sas.upenn.edu/irp/documents/2008_Global_Go_To_Think_Tanks.pdf.

Think tanks are estimated to be as many as 5465 in the world.  On a regional basis, Eastern Europe ranks 5th out of seven regions, accounting for only 9.41%.  The region is slightly behind Latin America and the Caribbean (9.84%), but ahead of Africa (7.76%) and the Middle East and North Africa (3.99%). 

Budapest, Warsaw, and Kiev are deemed important center of activities for Eastern European think tanks in terms of their sheer number and leverage in influencing the policy discourse. 

Equal with Hungary at the 22nd place, Poland fares well among the countries counting the largest number of think tanks (40).  Only Russia, Romania, and Ukraine are ahead of Poland in Eastern Europe with respectively 107, 53, and 45 think tanks.