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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT
The latest installment of a series that dates back nearly half a century, Financing the 2008 Election is the definitive analysis of how campaign finance and spending shaped the historic presidential and congressional races of 2008.
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT
The State of Nonprofit America provides a basic sourcebook for sector leaders, the press, public officials, and citizens concerned about the future of America's nonprofit sector and eager to understand the forces affecting it.
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT
American Foundations represents the most comprehensive effort to date to assess the impact and significance of philanthropic foundations in the United States.
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Cuba's Energy Future reveals the steps to making that a reality, including exploration of greater cooperation with its longtime nemesis, the United States.
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Greenhouse Governance features a number of America's preeminent public policy scholars, examining some aspect of governance and climate change.
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In Drawing the Line, Andrew Stark takes a fresh and provocative look at how Americans debate the border between the public realm and the private.
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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise examines the development of this ethnically diverse and strategically vital nation, which seeks to play an influential role on the international stage.
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Felbab-Brown draws on interviews and fieldwork in some of the world's most dangerous regions to explain how belligerent groups have become involved in drug trafficking and other illicit activities, including kidnapping, extortion, and smuggling.
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding provides fresh insights into these debates. While focusing mainly upon cases of major UN peacebuilding, it also considers the implications and record of liberal peacebuilding through a wider range of experiences.
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT
Young people in the Middle East (15--29 years old) constitute about one-third of the region's population. Generation in Waiting portrays their plight, urging greater investment designed to improve the lives of this critical group.
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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Self-Enforcing Trade examines the WTO's "extended litigation process," highlighting the tangle of international economics, law, and politics that participants must master. He identifies the costs that prevent developing countries from disentangling the
self-enforcement process and fully using the WTO system as part of their growth strategies.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Contributors to the book draw on experience and research from around the world on the nexus of gender, age, violence, and small arms in developing and developed countries. They provide a number of recommendations for policies, programs, and research designed to further illuminate and counteract the firing of the "sexed pistol."
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad "quality of life" concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income.
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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Advice and Dissent explores the state of the nation's federal judicial selection system -- a process beset by deepening partisan polarization, obstructionism, and deterioration of the practice of advice and consent.
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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Prudent Lending Restored offers suggestions on how we can reform securitization, including a solution to insure the mortgage market against default risk.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a
more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can help counter inaccurate stereotypes about global poverty.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Means to an End reframes the discussion on the International Criminal Court by broadening the focus to address not simply the Court but the broader issue of United States policy toward international justice.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Through essays from leading scholars, this volume focuses on critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, such as its relationship with poverty, and vulnerability arising from poor health and external shocks.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The authors provide an in-depth analysis of the current state of the humanitarian policy debate and the relevant institutional setup in the EU and the U.S.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This book explores how developing-country governments have institutionalized ties with emigrants and their descendents.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World explores the balance of power between the disparate political forces of the Arab world.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The contributors to this volume identify key issues, raise pertinent questions, and suggest useful reforms regarding accountability in the context of the United Nations system.
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Corruption, Global Security, and World Order explores the ties between corrupt practice and threats to global peace, corrupt practice and the suppression of human rights and development, corrupt practice and the maintenance of tyranny, and corruption in health and education.
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Which Path to Persia? objectively presents the most important policy options available to the United States in crafting a new strategy toward Iran.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this book, some of the world's leading Latin Americanists explore the ways in which the region has reengaged globalization.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami, and volcanoes.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this volume authors and practitioners from both countries offer their perspectives on joint challenges in areas ranging from global economic and security issues to questions of stability in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Africa, as well as relations with Russia. The book includes recommendations for a more effective bilateral partnership.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In Beyond Lending, Guillermo Perry argues that
developing countries remained highly
vulnerable to external risks such as
commodity price declines, capital flow
reversals, and natural disasters. He recommends that multilateral development banks
(MDBs) should move beyond lending
to provide innovative risk-management tools for developing
countries to manage volatility.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT
Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to
each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The 2008/2009 edition focuses on climate policy and its impact on trade.
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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Automatic argues for a fresh approach to increase saving, simplify retirement planning, and help manage the risks associated with today's individual account environment.
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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT
This thoughtful and hopeful book, in turns analytical and personal, delves into the important question: Can the United States reverse the mistaken policies that severely damaged the crown jewels of its national park system?
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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT
Editor Benjamin Wittes leads an authoritative lineup of legal experts and former government officials, many of whom have served on the legal front lines of the War on Terror. Together they present an agenda for reforming the statutory law governing this new battle, balancing the need for security, the rule of law, and the constitutional rights of freedom.
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Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:57:35 GMT
Answering the demand for foreign aid alternatives, Clifford Zinnes assesses a new class of tournament approaches that promise to improve on the lackluster performance of conventional methods. In such games, beneficiary groupsoften local-level governments—act as teams and compete against each other, under explicit predefined rules, to achieve the best implementation of a particular project.
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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Gitterman focuses on two sets of policy instruments that have been used to aid the working poor since the early twentieth century: the federal tax code and the minimum wage. Boosting Paychecks analyzes the partisan politics that have shaped these policies since the New Deal era, with particular attention paid to the past three decades.
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Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
There is a serious problem endemic to America's energy challenges. Policymakers tend to do just enough to satisfy political demands but not enough to solve the real problems, and they wait too long to act. This important volume details this problem, making clear the unfortunate results of such short-sighted thinking, and it proposes measures to overcome this counterproductive tendency.
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Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This is the first systematic history of U.S. efforts to help forge a settlement between India and Pakistan on the "Kashmir question."
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Fri, 01 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT
In Europe 2030 a group of distinguished authors look ahead and deliver their predictions on what Europe will look like twenty years from now. With great insight and drawing on deep reservoirs of experience, they illuminate the European Union's current strengths and weaknesses by imagining its future development.
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Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In Moving Money, noted economists Robert Litan and Martin Baily bring together a group of distinguished analysts to examine this trend toward digital means of consumer payment.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. The Obama Administration and the Americas, however, argues that the new administration should focus early and strategically on Latin America.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Wiki Government shows how to
bring innovation to government.
In explaining how to
enhance political institutions with the
power of networks, it offers a fundamental
rethinking of democracy in the
digital age. Collaborative democracy—
government of the people, by the people,
for the people—is an old dream. Today,
Wiki Government shows how technology
can make that dream a reality.
In this thought-provoking book, Beth
Simone Noveck illustrates how collaborative
democracy strengthens public
decisionmaking by connecting the power
of the many to the work of the few.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The promise of "e-health" remains largely unfulfilled. In Digital Medicine, Darrell West and Edward Miller investigate the factors limiting the ability of digital technology to remake health care in the United States and around the world in order to understand health care information innovation in a variety of settings.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This timely book is the worthy successor to previous Brookings volumes on defense spending, including most recently O'Hanlon's Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era (2005) and Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration (2001 and 2002). It continues our
proud tradition of nonpartisan empirical analysis of defense issues.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings gathered scholars and policymakers from Brazil,
Europe, and the United States to examine the present state and
likely future of Brazil’s economy. Their findings can be found in
Brazil as an Economic Superpower? The authors’ analysis focuses
particularly on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social
investment, and multinational corporations.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what works --
and what doesn't -- in fighting global poverty?
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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The health of American democracy ultimately depends on its people's willingness and ability to work together as citizens and stakeholders. Investing in Democracy shows what policymakers can do to promote this goal and identifies eight design principles that can help transform government from part of the problem into part of the solution.
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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This perceptive book emphasizes the need for an overall analytical framework that can be applied to different countries to help analyze the current situation, identify potential areas for improvement, and assess their relative feasibility and the steps needed to promote them.
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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global climate crisis.
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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This important book examines the role that the U.S. government can and should play
in promoting the widespread use of plug-in electric vehicles.
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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT
Attacks on the Press in 2008 offers factual and unbiased analyses
of press conditions in 120 countries, while offering a
behind-the-curtain look at how the international press survives—
and thrives.
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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
An unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty. Global Development 2.0 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the world’s poorest.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Today the organization of science is undergoing a fundamental transformation. In The New Invisible College, Caroline Wagner combines quantitative data and extensive interviews to map the emergence of global science networks and trace the dynamics dri
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The original research and analysis of Desai, Goldberg, and their colleagues will be of use to anyone interested in the problems of building manufacturing competitiveness, especially in Russia and the post-Soviet transition economies.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Axis of Convenience cuts through the mythmaking and examines the Sino-Russian partnership on its own merits.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Through alternating periods of boom and bust, Russia’s fortunes and the legacies of its leaders have been dependent on the fluctuating value of its oil and natural gas.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This book examines the Gulf region as a financial center and an economic power hub, focusing on its role in the world economy and capital markets.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Working Longer investigates the prospects for moving the average retirement age from 63, the current figure, to 66.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Experienced negotiators, scholars, and trade officials from different backgrounds offer policy prescriptions to secure a world trading system that will meet the needs of developing nations.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The book identifies the institutional dimensions of climate change as well as links between climate change and sustainable development.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Hamilton and Quinlan continue their award-winning series on international economic issues with an up-to-date look at globalization’s impact on Europe.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Power Play analyzes the Bush presidency’s efforts to expand executive power and puts them into constitutional and historical perspective.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Lancaster analyzes in detail the array of recent reforms of U.S. economic assistance and the difficult issues these reforms raise, while placing the changes and the manner of their implementation in a historical and political context.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to Mexico's state of affairs and it suggests reforms to improve the situation.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This timely volume provides important clues on where Chinese political development is heading.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This book investigates the challenges faced by UN transitional administrations in establishing the rule of law in Cambodia, Kosovo, and East Timor.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This book examines a range of past, ongoing, and emerging international water disputes from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book considers the intersections between homeland and international security and the implications of these connections for preparedness.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In China’s Changing Political Landscape, leading experts examine the prospects for democracy in the world’s most populous nation.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Wittes dissects the Bush administration’s failure to advance freedom in the Middle East and lays out a better strategy for future efforts to promote democracy.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Why has assistance been so ineffectual, and what can we learn from Haiti’s plight about foreign aid?
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
In this wide-ranging volume, international experts explain the links between climate change and forests, highlighting the potential role of this sector within emerging climate policy frameworks and carbon markets.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
There is no consensus on what constitutes election fraud, let alone how to detect and deter it. This book brings together experts on election law, election administration, and U.S. and comparative politics to address these critical issues.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Bilmes and Gould present a blueprint for reinvigorating the public sector in order to deliver results for America.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and economic development among partner regimes, leaving America on the wrong side of change.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Aaron and Lambrew provide essential insight into the types of hybrid Medicare policies that Congress will consider in coming years.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
International transportation experts compare and contrast how different nations have managed their airports and air traffic control systems and how well they are meeting the needs of their people.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Experts from the United States and Japan look at forces of change in their securities markets and offer their views of the future for mutual funds and other forms of securities diversification.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Experts present new frameworks, cutting-edge analysis, and innovative policy solutions for the nation’s government, business, civic, and community leaders to sculpt a sustainable and supportable economy for older industrial areas.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This book offers a 21st century agenda for election reform in America based on lessons learned in the fifty states.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region. Many observers welcome this development, highlighting the benefits of increased trade and investment.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book focuses on three key criteria for fostering broadly shared economic growth: enhancing economic security, building a highly skilled work force, and reforming the tax system.
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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Some of the best-known and respected authorities in climate policy provide a comprehensive agenda for global collective action.
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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, this book provides in-depth, comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy responses in America’s newest gateways.
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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book presents a comprehensive approach to advancing the practice and study of innovation in government.
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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the Religious Right—and the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage—is over.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Voting Technology is the first book to investigate in a scientific and authoritative manner how voters respond to the new voting equipment.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Leading housing researchers build upon decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of the nation’s rental housing challenges and what can be done about them.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Drawing on a wide range of sources the authors track swing voters across six decades and in national and local elections. The result is an unprecedented picture of this key political group.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This report offers a comprehensive survey of recent empirical research on the state and development of retail banking integration in Europe.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This book examines the performance of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the banking industry in Europe and introduces a new conceptual approach for assessing the phenomenon.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This new volume of Red and Blue Nation delves into the consequences of the gulf between "red states" and "blue states." The authors examine the impact of these political divisions on voter behavior, Congressional law-making, judicial selection, and foreign policy formation.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book forces us to recognize the reality of conflicting interests and the limitations of external actors to bring about political reform, while drawing lessons on how to make international democracy promotion more effective.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:36:48 GMT
Attacks on the Press is the most authoritative reference guide to press freedom worldwide, providing factual and unbiased analyses of media conditions in 120 nations.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Available in time for the core of the 2008 presidential campaign, this practical guide on voter mobilization is sure to be an important resource for consultants, candidates, and grassroots organizations.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book explores areas where changes in U.S. policies can conceivably improve the lives of the poor in developing countries, thereby not only protecting our own national security but also restoring America’s credibility in the world.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they square off or cut deals with each other.
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Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This timely report rejects the urgings of the abolitionists and contends that efforts to reform the IMF deserve U.S. support.
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Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Since the 1990s, North America and Europe have confronted a series of unconventional, catastrophic, or “hypercomplex” crises. Events such as these have destabilized, or even overwhelmed, traditional mechanisms for planning, response, and recovers. They have called upon leaders and analysts to develop new frameworks of interpretation, strategic guidelines, and roadmaps for action.