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The purpose of the article is the analysis of approaches to the clarification of the specific and status of the public analytical centers in modern western scientific discourse. Methodology of the research predicts the of the tools’ structural-functional and constructive approaches application to determine the positioning of this group of “brain centers” and their functioning in the context of the market of the informative-analytical services; secondly, the method of the content-analysis in the way of considering the ideological field given in the works of the western researchers, and, thirdly, the comparative method that helps to understand the situation of the public analytical centers in the modern world resisting on the leading western experience of the analytical structures development. Scientific novelty. In the article, for the first time, the newest approaches of western scientists to the problem of status and the role of public analytical centers in modern social-political processes are outlined including the discussion around the operationalization and making a definition of these establishments. Conclusions. It was found out that public analytical centers in spite of the open discussion around their definition still play a more important role in the development of modern society and become important participants in the key social-political processes on the global and national scale. It was considered the approaches of modern western researchers which help to affirm that they mainly understand the analytical centers in the way of such characteristics as independence, the objects of service and investigation, main activity and production. Gradually they transform on the leaders of thoughts and their public and political influence on the West continues to increase forming the positions of the ideological industry. |
