A think tank’s art of lobbying: When the Montaigne Institute advocates and prescribes the mutualistic model of governance

Lucile Desmoulins; Émeline Seignobos

A think tank’s art of lobbying: When the Montaigne Institute advocates and prescribes the mutualistic model of governance
Suivre cet auteur Lucile Desmoulins, Suivre cet auteur Émeline Seignobos
In Études de communication Volume 49, Issue 2, July 2017, pages 73 to 88

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‪Think tanks are hybrid organizational forms defined mainly through activities such as the writing and editing of strategic documents including reports and position papers. These documents are intended to weigh upon law making processes and thus to influence laws which are by essence, prescriptive. The ultimate goal of think tanks is in effect to influence decision-making processes. This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of the Montaigne Institute, a leading French think tank. We analyse three key lobbying reports in favor of French mutual companies and cooperatives, produced by a working group of the Institute. The prescriptive dimension of these documents is expressed euphemistically, by means of a collective authorial stance and unexpected figures of the implied reader/recipient‪‪.‪

decision-making process
think tank
lobbying
authorial stance
editing
mutual company
position paper

Lucile Desmoulins

Émeline Seignobos

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ISO 690		Copy DESMOULINS Lucile, SEIGNOBOS Émeline, « ‪Un think tank dans son art du lobbying et de la prescription : la défense du modèle mutualiste par l’Institut Montaigne‪ », Études de communication, 2017/2 (n° 49), p. 73-88. DOI : 10.4000/edc.7106. URL : https://preprod.cairn.info/revue-etudes-de-communication-2017-2-page-73.htm
ISO 690		Copy DESMOULINS Lucile, SEIGNOBOS Émeline, "A think tank’s art of lobbying: When the Montaigne Institute advocates and prescribes the mutualistic model of governance", Études de communication, 2017/2 (No 49), p. 73-88. DOI: 10.4000/edc.7106. URL: https://preprod.cairn-int.info/journal-etudes-de-communication-2017-2-page-73.htm
MLA		Copy Desmoulins, Lucile, et Émeline Seignobos. « ‪Un think tank dans son art du lobbying et de la prescription : la défense du modèle mutualiste par l’Institut Montaigne‪ », Études de communication, vol. 49, no. 2, 2017, pp. 73-88.
MLA		Copy Desmoulins, Lucile, et Émeline Seignobos. "A think tank’s art of lobbying: When the Montaigne Institute advocates and prescribes the mutualistic model of governance", Études de communication, vol. 49, no. 2, 2017, pp. 73-88.
APA		Copy Desmoulins, L. & Seignobos, É. (2017). ‪Un think tank dans son art du lobbying et de la prescription : la défense du modèle mutualiste par l’Institut Montaigne‪. Études de communication, 49, 73-88. https://doi.org/10.4000/edc.7106
APA		Copy Desmoulins, L. & Seignobos, É. (2017). A think tank’s art of lobbying: When the Montaigne Institute advocates and prescribes the mutualistic model of governance. Études de communication, 49, 73-88. https://doi.org/10.4000/edc.7106
DOI		Copy https://doi.org/10.4000/edc.7106

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