Cutbacks have also affected other think tanks, with the results reverberating throughout the newly established "think tank ecology."
連因憲政改革研究名噪一時、培養過大量「李系」政務官的國策研究院都面臨轉型的瓶頸，裁員、遇缺不補，更已普遍存在於民間智庫之中，連新成立的智庫型態都因此受到影響。