Institut Montaigne

Institut Montaigne
founded in the year	2004
City	Paris
Country	France
Website	http://www.institutmontaigne.org
address	59, rue La Boétie 75008 Paris
founder	Charles Bébéar
Networks	Stockholm Network, European Ideas Network (EIN)
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	18.05.2015

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

59, rue La Boétie 75008 Paris

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Laurent Bigorgne

• François Rachline

• Daniel Laurent

• Alexia De Monterno

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Gilles Trochet

• Fanny De Monterno

• Meryl Sotiy

• Angele Malatre-Lansac

• Lucie Piolot

• Bitisam Elaifar

• Maylis Brandou

• Nicolas Charles

• Hortense Billot

• Thibaud Grenez

• Hugo Micheron

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• Institutional Reform/Public Services
• Justice and fundamental rights
• Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• European Integration
• Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
• Financial Programming and the Budget
• Environment/Climate Action
• Regional-/Kommunalpolitik
• Economic and Monetary Affairs

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): tries to delegitimize the ›high‹ level of French public expenditures through e.g. international comparisons

References

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