Deep impact: a longitudinal analysis of the presence of think tanks in the press during the crisis and the recovery period

Figures & data

Table 1. Structure of the Spanish banking system (number of entities).

	2005	2016
Banks	74	62
Savings banks	47	2
Cooperatives	83	40
Total	204	104

Spanish banks include public limited companies and banks that are owned by savings banks. All the companies belonging to the same group are integrated into a single entity.

Source: Compiled by the authors based on data from the Spanish Banking Association, the Bank of Spain and the Business Confederation of Savings Banks.

Table 2. Spanish think tanks under study and their position in the ranking.

		TTT-WE		TTT-DEP
Think tank	Acronym	Position	Quartile	Position	Quartile
Elcano Royal Institute	Elcano	9	Q1	–	–
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)	CIDOB	15	Q1	–	–
Fundacion Alternativas	F.Alter	39	Q2	–	–
Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES)	FAES	59	Q2	46	2Q
Institucion Futuro	I.Futuro	70	Q3	113	4Q
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania	IEMed	93	Q3	–	–
Foundation for Studies of Applied Economy (FEDEA)	FEDEA	100	Q4	73	3Q
Juan de Mariana Institute	I.J.Mariana	110	Q4	–	–
Funcas	FUNCAS	–	–	–	–
Entrepreneurs Circle	CdEmp	–	–	–	–

Source: Personal compilation based on McGann (2018).

Figure 1. Media coverage of TTs: An exponential regression. Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 2. Evolution of the news on TTs by phases. Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 3. Variation rates in the evolution of media coverage of Spanish TTs across phases. Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 4. Evolution of the media coverage of TTs across phases. Source: Own elaboration.

Table 3. Media coverage of TTs across stages.

Think tank	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5
Elcano	1,366	1,396	1,682	2,810	4,800
CIDOB	593	466	770	1,133	1,777
F.Alter	686	1,061	736	907	1,198
FAES	1,134	1,323	1,081	742	473
I.Futuro	58	216	52	58	123
IEMed	419	431	378	570	568
FEDEA	76	652	3,184	3,733	5,778
I.J.Mariana	27	162	302	246	316
FUNCAS	2,600	4,749	6,766	6,335	8,549
CdEmp	1,629	1,767	2,914	4,072	5,939
Total	8,588	12,223	17,865	20,606	29,521

Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 5. Variation rates of media coverage across phases, detailed by TTs. Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 6. Evolution of media coverage across phases, detailed by TTs. Source: Own elaboration.

Table 4. Evolution of reputation across phases, detailed by TTs.

	Elcano	CIDOB	FEDEA	I.J.Mariana	FUNCAS	CdEmp
Elcano		.989**				.975**
CIDOB	.989**					.988**
FEDEA						.970**
I.J.Mariana					.969**
FUNCAS				.969**
CdEmp	.975**	.988**	.970**

** p < 0.01.

Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 7. International media coverage of TTs: A linear regression. Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 8. Variation rates of international media coverage across phases. Source: Own elaboration.

Table 5. Local news and international news.

Pearson correlation
P1	.568
P2	.904**
P3	.810**
P4	.693*
P5	.449

** p < 0.01,

* p < 0.05.

Source: Own elaboration.

Table 6. Hegemony of TTs during the period from 2004 to 2018.

	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5
Total SpTTs	8,588	12,223	17,865	20,606	29,521
Top SpTTs	6,264	9,030	15,316	18,083	26,843
Hegemony	72.94%	73.88%	85.73%	87.76%	90.93%

Source: Own elaboration.

Figure 9. National and international hegemony of TTs. Source: Own elaboration.

Table 7. Hypotheses verified or rejected.

Hypotheses	Verified	Rejected
H1	x
H2a		x
H2b		x
H3	x
H4a	x
H4b		x
H5		x
H6	x
H7	x

Source: Own elaboration.

McGann, J. G. (2018). 2017 global go to think tank index report. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania.

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