Brookings Institution Press imprint: 291 books
The Public Wealth of Cities
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term...
Inequality in America
Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A bedrock American principle is the idea that all individuals should have the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own effort, skill, and ingenuity.-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Income inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis...
The $13 Trillion Question
Managing the U.S. Government's Debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The underexamined art and science of managing the federal government's huge debt.
Everyone talks about the size of the U.S. national debt, now at $13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U.S. Treasury does the borrowing-even though it is one of the world's largest borrowers. Everyone...
BP Blowout
Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequences
BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico....
Get Out the Vote
How to Increase Voter Turnout
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls-these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office.
With the first two editions of Get Out the Vote, Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber broke ground by introducing a new scientific...
To Serve the President
Continuity and Innovation in the White House Staff
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Nobody knows more about the duties, the difficulties, and the strategies of staffing and working in the White House than Brad Patterson. In To Serve the President, Patterson combines insider access, decades of Washington experience, and an inimitable style to open a window onto closely guarded Oval...
Making College Work
Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students
Too many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework or receive any college credential, while others earn degrees or certificates with little labor market value. Large...
Working Longer
The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Daily headlines warn American workers that their retirement years may be far from golden. The main components of the retirement income system-Social Security and employer-provided pensions and health insurance-are in decline while the amount of income needed for a comfortable retirement continues...
The Responsibility to Protect
Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"Never again!" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences-from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.
Gareth Evans has grappled with...
Choices
Inside the Making of Indias Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A look behind the scenes of some of India’s most critical foreign policy decisions by the country’s former foreign secretary and national security adviser.
Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct,...
Political Realism
How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A free eBook that asks hard questions about why politics once worked, and how today’s politics do not.
What if idealistic reform itself is a culprit?
In Political Realism, Jonathan Rauch argues that well-meaning efforts to stem corruption and increase participation have stripped political...
Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative,...
Generation Unbound
Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage.
In...
by Stephen P. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a...