Wadah pemikir

Wadah pemikir (Bahasa Inggris: think tank) adalah suatu organisasi, lembaga, perusahaan, atau kelompok, yang melakukan riset, umumnya didanai oleh klien pemerintah atau komersialnya, dalam bidang strategi sosial atau politik, teknologi, dan persenjataan. Istilah ini mulai dipergunakan sejak 1950-an dan awalnya digunakan untuk merujuk pada organisasi yang memberikan nasihat dalam bidang militer.

Wadah pemikir Indonesia

• Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Pranala luar

• Daftar 30 wadah pemikir terbaik di Asia 2011
• Daftar 30 wadah pemikir terbaik di dunia 2011

Bacaan lanjutan

• Goodman, John C., What is a Think Tank?, National Center for Policy Analysis, 2005.
• Abelson, Donald E. Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
• Callahan, David. Think Tank As Flack, How Microsoft and other corporations use conservative policy groups, Washington Monthly (November 1999).
• Cockett, Richard, Thinking the unthinkable : think tanks and the economic counter revolution ; 1931 - 1983, London : Fontana, 1995
• Fan, Maureen. "Capital Brain Trust Puts Stamp on the World", Washington Post (16 May 2005): B01.[1]
• Dixon, Patrick. Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change - issues covered by Think Tanks and methodology for reviewing trends, impact on policy 2003): Profile Books
• Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Kinau, Jacques. Start Your Own Tax Exempt Think Tank: Effective Self-Defense Against Corporate and Political Donor Class Tax Predation
• Morgan, Dan. Think Tanks: Corporations' Quiet Weapon, Washington Post
• Stone, Diane, and Andrew Denham, eds. Think Tank Traditions: Policy Research and the Politics of Ideas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.