Analysis Of The Brookings Institution In The United States Public Policy

Think tank is a research and consulting firm composed of experts and scholars and intellectuals. It is the product of modern decision-making system. In the context of globalization, the think tank is playing a growing role in politic, economy, military, diplomacy and also making obvious impact on government decision-making. Its growing overall competitiveness increases. Brookings Institution, one of US many first-class think tanks, is the most influential on domestic public policy-making aspect. As the oldest think tank, it also ranks first for its current world influence. There are series of research centers in the institution, involving various aspects of social, economic, diplomatic and global issues. Their common purpose is to promote the rapid economic and social development of the United States, and to offer assist on government decision-making to improve national governance. Most of the theoretical framework used by academia studying the Brookings Institution is based on elitism and pluralism, which provides a lot of help for this article theoretical framework on studying the Brookings Institution. After analyzing the development history of the Brookings Institution, we came out a new study perspective-policy process, and systematically analyzed all stages it participated in the American public policy-making process in combining actual cases. Based on the policy process theory, part four of this article made an assessment on the Institution’s influence. Comparing with several other well-known American think tanks in three aspects, including media impressions, seminar number and number of views and opinions cited by the Congress, better reflects how influential the Brookings Institution is on American public policy-making process. At the end, it offers some worth learning ideas on China’s think tank development by analyzing the development trend of the Brookings Institution.