Corporate managerial templates were imported into think tanks in the early 1990s

Evidence

In the early 1990s, the evolution towards the professionalization and manage-rialization of think tanks started in earnest. Private models and templates were transferred to the nonprofit think tanks to ensure efficiency and accountability to funders. In November 1991, the Heritage Foundation organized a workshop on “Fundraising in the New Policy Environment,” where Atlas was represented. The workshop was “devoted to the importance of developing clear organizational missions, devising better methods of marketing products and services and refining donor relations.” — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 577

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal think tanks were standardized through explicit managerial blueprinting — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 580; Private corporate discipline can be absorbed into state ideology over time — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1122

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal think tanks were standardized through explicit managerial blueprinting #corroborates (0.92) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 580
• Private corporate discipline can be absorbed into state ideology over time #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1122