Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
AbbreviationTTCSP
Formation1989
Dissolved2021
HeadquartersUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Director (last)
James G. McGann
Parent organization
Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Websiterepository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/

The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) was an academic, non-profit program based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1989 to 2021. TTCSP was originally established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (itself a think tank) in 1989; in 2008 it moved to become part of the International Relations Program and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. The program's director was James McGann; and at times it had hundreds of interns and staff working on its projects. The program conducted research on policy institutes around the world, published surveys, rankings and guides, and maintained a database of over 11,000 think tanks from across the world.