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Contrary to its title, Andrew Selee’s What Should Think Tanks Do? is not a book of prescriptions. Instead, it is a tool for thinking. It offers a set of principles and illustrative cases that, taken together, incite a reader to think clearly and creatively about how an organization might make the most valuable contributions possible to important public issues. Anyone who works in a public policy arena and struggles with questions of how best to spend their time and resources for maximum impact can potentially benefit from a couple of quiet hours’ concentration on this short, engaging book. Selee seeks to help readers focus simultaneously on what a think tank wishes to achieve and also on its unique or distinctive competencies, so that all their decisions can build on both. If we can design the products we create, the key audiences we reach out to, the messages we craft, and our human and financial resources around our distinctive capabilities, we have the chance for maximum influence. Abstractly, this makes sense. In practice it can be hard to achieve. It can even be hard to imagine.
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