The UN adopted over half of Heritage’s 1983-86 reform demands.

Evidence

Heritage’s own evaluation of its United Nations Assessment Project is highly favorable. Several specific actions that Heritage had championed, including U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO and the closing of the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations were achieved. In a 1998 article urging the United States to pay some of its $1.3 billion in outstanding dues to the organization, the Wall Street Journal noted that the UN “has adopted more than half of the specific reforms demanded by the Heritage Foundation’s United Nations Assessment Project in a series of 1983 and 1986 recommendations. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1813

Categorization

• XREF: Shows a think tank’s concrete policy-influence metrics, parallel to Milgrom’s account of how institutions shape outcomes.