Donald E. Abelson, PhD, is Academic Director at Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement and Professor of Political Science at McMaster University. Some of his recent books include Understanding American Politics (3rd ed. with Stephen Brooks and Melissa Haussman, University of Toronto Press, 2024); History Has Made Us Friends: Rethinking the ‘Special Relationship’ between Canada and the United States (co-edited with Stephen Brooks, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024); Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience (co-edited with Stephen Brooks, Routledge, 2022); Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy (co-edited with Christopher J. Rastrick, Edward Elgar, 2021); Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes (3rd ed., McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018); Think Tanks Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics: Pathways to Influence (co-edited with Stephen Brooks and Xin Hua, Routledge, 2017); Northern Lights: Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape (MQUP, 2016); and A Capitol Idea: Think Tanks & U.S. Foreign Policy (MQUP, 2006).