Provide a Critical Assessment of the Following Comparative General Claim

question 28

Essay

Provide a critical assessment of the following comparative general claim:
The increase in the number and support of conservative think tanks has been substantial since the mid-1970s. The American Enterprise had twelve resident thinkers when Jimmy Carter was elected; today it has forty-five. The Heritage Foundation has sprung from nothing to command an annual budget of $11 million. The budget of the Center for Strategic and International Studies has grown from $975,000 ten years ago to $8.6 million today. Over a somewhat longer period, the endowment of the Hoover Institution has increased from $2 million to $70 million.
-Adapted from Gregg Easterbrook, "Ideas Move Nations"

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