Policy Advice Analysis from 11 Pakistani Think Tanks, 2020-2023

50 policy documents from 11 think tanks in Pakistan, analyzed from 2020 to 2023. The dataset was created by Fatima Abdul Ghaffar and published on figshare in 2026. It supports a study examining how organizational characteristics shape the quality of policy advice.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between think tank autonomy and the substantiveness of policy advice based on the study's findings.
• Studying the effect of cross-sector collaboration on the specificity of policy recommendations as described in the research.
• Investigating how ideological alignment influences policy relevance and coherence in politically fragmented settings.
• Applying the Policy Advisory Systems (PAS) framework to non-OECD country contexts for comparative analysis.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on 50 policy documents from 11 distinct organizations, providing a multi-source perspective.
• Analysis covers a defined time range from 2020 to 2023.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 204.7 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Fatima Abdul Ghaffar.

Collection Method

Content analysis of policy documents.

Time Range

2020-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 19:29:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pakistan