Yet, oddly enough, it is precisely because leaders at different times in the process of democratization in Taiwan have needed different intellectual resources that there is now a forest of think tanks, symbolizing the pluralization of voices in democracy. At the same time, the different focuses of think tanks founded in different eras have reflected the main challenges facing the country at those points in time.
但吊詭的是，促成智庫林立象徵民主多元發聲的，又正是台灣民主化過程中各個時期主政者的智囊需求，同時各階段成立的智庫專精研究議題，也是當時國家面臨的首要問題。