Policy Advice in Electoral Democracies – Think Tanks in Hungary and Poland

This project focuses on policy advice in Central and Eastern European contexts, exploring what role think tanks play in countries from the region. The interest is to study how knowledge producers contribute to democratic processes in two countries: Hungary and Poland. Focusing specifically on think tanks as key policy advising organizations, the project will analyze the dynamic interplay between governments and policy advice institutions and the patterns of political knowledge production in electoral democracies. In the course of the three years research will map the think tank landscape, look at changes in this landscape over the last years, and at how various types of think tanks respond to and accommodate to political processes taking place in these countries.