ChinaTalk

The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)

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Caleb Watney (Institute for Progress) and Max Bodach (Foundation for American Innovation) on what the new breed of DC think tanks does differently and why the old model is broken.

We discuss:

  • Why "counterfactual policy impact" matters more than white papers and what's wrong with project-based funding
  • Cross-partisanship vs. picking sides: IFP pulls the rope sideways, FAI builds a big tent on the right
  • Vertical integration over specialization — the person who wrote the brief should be the one selling it on the Hill
  • Whether AI eats the think tank or just the parts that weren't working anyway

    • Timestamps

    00:38 — Applied think tank vs. white paper mill

    16:56 — Partisanship: FAI's conservative tent vs. IFP's cross-partisan design

    37:09 — Why researchers should do their own comms and outreach

    50:26 — Betting on young talent as policy entrepreneurs

    57:56 — Will AI eat the think tank?

    song: https://suno.com/s/I244K1rIpPdB6lO9


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