Studying links between experts and advocacy groups connects disparate policy research fields.

Evidence

It is unclear to us how exactly we can best improve the interplay of intellectual, social, and institutional studies of great transformations. But we do think that looking for the links between experts, consultants, and other agents of implementation (think tank professionals; public relations professionals) and lobby or advocacy in its various forms (such as astroturfing, or advocacy coordination entities such as ALEC and Super PACs) helps to bridge the rivers if not oceans that seem to separate important areas of research: intellectual history, interest groups, business and economics, education, and public policy making. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 28

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432

Broader Connections

• Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. #expands (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432