In the wake of the Canadian think tank’s recent report on “circular lobbying” by government-funded child-care advocacy groups, the senior fellow and researcher talk to Michael E. Hartmann more about the risks of government funding of private groups in civil society—to their independence in particular and democratic pluralism in general.
The senior fellow and researcher talk to Michael E. Hartmann about the Canadian think tank’s recent report on “circular lobbying” by government-funded child-care advocacy groups and what it can tell us about the state of Tocquevillian civil society there.
More likely to wield his wealth by trying to reshape society through entrepreneurship itself rather than traditional, policy-oriented or politically tinged grantmaking.
With Michael E. Hartmann, the economist and policy analyst talks about his recent article “Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy;” why the U.S. has so many think tanks; how that differs from other democracies; and what philanthropy, its own managerial elite, and the one it funds have done to civil society rightly understood and democracy in America.
