关键词: 智库规模, 智库影响力, 中介效应

Abstract: In 2013, CPC Third Plenary Session released The Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Important Issues of Comprehensively Deepening, in which the CPC decided to ‘strengthen Chinese feature of the new think tank construction and establish the decision-making consultation system’. Thus, Chinese think tanks step into golden times. Compared to think tanks in developed countries, Chinese think tanks lack influence in the public domain. Based on the impact of different objects, this paper chooses 39 think tanks as samples and measures the think tank influence in three dimensions, including policy influence, academic influence and social influence. Then the paper also analyzes empirically the relationship between think tanks scale and think tanks influence which also include the moderating effect of think tanks characteristic and the mesomeric effect of think tanks products. The result shows that think tanks scale has the significant effects on the think tanks influence. And the mesomeric effect of think tanks products influenced the relationship between think tanks scale and think tanks influence, but the moderating effect has no obvious effect on the relationship between think tanks products, think tanks scale and think tanks influence. This paper gives some advice on how to accelerate pace of development of think tanks.