First Sentence

"Policy analysis is conducted in nearly every university, every medium-to large-sized city in the United States, every state capital, every federal agency, andcopiouslyfor the U.S. Congress and White House. So-called "think tanks" have proliferated in the past thirty years, generating vast quantities of policy research and becoming so pervasive as to be considered by some as "virtually a new branch of the political system" (Ricci 1993)."