Brookings Institution Press imprint: 291 books
What We Owe
Truths, Myths, and Lies about Public Debt
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt. Nearly everyone agrees that public debt in many advanced economies is too high to be sustainable...
Reflections on Progress
Essays on the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking.
Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid...
Five Rising Democracies
And the Fate of the International Liberal Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The...
Fast Forward
Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Fast Forward is equal parts science primer, history lesson, policy prescription, and ethical treatise. This pithy and compelling book makes clear what we know and don't know about global warming; why the threat demands prudent and urgent action; why the transition to a low-carbon economy will be the...
Inside Congress
A Guide for Navigating the Politics of the House and Senate Floors
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how to work within Congress.
The House and Senate have unique rules and procedures to determine how legislation moves from a policy idea to law. Evolved over the last 200 years, the rules of both chambers are designed to act as the engine...
The Resilient Sector Revisited
The New Challenge to Nonprofit America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.
Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions...
A New City O/S
The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local government
At a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective—indeed...
Governing by Network
The New Shape of the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services...
Affordable Excellence
The Singapore Healthcare Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare...
Rio 2016
Olympic Myths, Hard Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A clear-eyed, critical examination of the social, political, and economic costs of hosting the 2016 summer Olympics
The selection of Rio de Janeiro as the site of the summer 2016 Olympic Games set off jubilant celebrations in Brazil—and created enormous expectations for economic development...
The Need for Speed
A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and Hal Singer argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies...
by Martha Crenshaw, Gary LaFree
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Can We Construct a Grand Strategy to Counter Terrorism?
Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats-both domestic and foreign. After years of wars, ever more intensive and pervasive surveillance, enhanced security measures at major transportation centers,...
Marijuana
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short...
Voices for Children
Rhetoric and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans' lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation?...