Think Tanks: the Rich Get Richer.

While this survey reveals that media show a greater reliance on think tanks than at the time of the last survey two years ago, the

constituencies representing a center/right debate have further cemented their positions as media-friendly analysts. In the survey of 1997,

conservative or right-leaning think tanks received 53 percent of all citations, 32 percent of citations went to centrist think tanks, and

only 16 percent of the citations went to progressive or left-leaning think tanks. The percentages for progressive or left-leaning think

tanks have declined slightly since then.