Donor-funded think tanks produce policy analysis and media presence

Evidence

Think tanks are the elite proxy agents. Their members analyze data and write policy papers favoring their donors’ interests and ideological perspectives. They are the ones who appear regularly in the mass media. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 134

Categorization

• XREF: Think tanks as elite media proxies bear directly on how Islamophobic/racist policy gets rational, credentialed public backing. — connects to: The best-funded think tanks shape foreign policy through media expert appearances; Post-1970s business philanthropy deliberately funded think tanks and intellectuals to reverse environmental regulation. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 436
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 134