Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
Abbreviation	TTCSP
Formation	1989
Dissolved	2021
Headquarters	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Director (last)	James G. McGann
Parent organization	Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Website	repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/

The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) was a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1989 to 2021. TTCSP was originally established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989.^[1] The director was James McGann.^[2]^[3] The program conducted research on policy institutes around the world,^[4] and maintained a database of over 8,200 think tanks from across the world.^[5]

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