Carrying on this tradition of think tanks formed expressly to provide policy recommendations, as well as reflecting the new "ecology" in which each party establishes an affiliated think tank, the Taiwan Thinktank (TT) and Taiwan Advocates, both established late last year, have even more obviously close ties to the ruling authorities.
承襲過去專為政府獻策的智庫傳統，加上政黨政治形成後各「智」為黨的智庫新生態，去年底剛成立的台灣智庫與群策會便明顯與執政當局互動密切。