Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Teachers versus the Public
What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A comprehensive exploration of 21st Century school politics, Teachers versus the Public offers the first comparison of the education policy views of both teachers and the public as a whole, and reveals a deep, broad divide between the opinions held by citizens and those who teach in the public schools....
by G. Edward DeSeve
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A guide to competencies needed by the federal government’s new top officials.
The transition from one president to another, regardless of which party wins the 2016 elections, will mean many things, one of which is that some 3,000 to 4,000 new senior presidential appointees will take office...
Calling the Shots
The President, Executive Orders, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.
The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government-the executive, the legislative, and the judicial-but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged...
Show Me the Evidence
Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six-spanning...
Megachange
Economic Disruption, Political Upheaval, and Social Strife in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Big, unexpected changes are here to stay.
Slow, incremental change has become a relic of the past. Today's shifts come fast and big, what Darrell West calls megachanges, in which dramatic disruptions in trends and policies occur on a regular basis.
Domestically, we see megachange at...
The East Moves West
India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding in China and India. The world's two most populous nations are the biggest reasons for Asia's growing footprint on...
Renminbi Internationalization
Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Meet the next global currency: the Chinese renminbi, or the "redback." Following the global financial crisis of 2008, China's major monetary policy objective is the internationalization of the renminbi, that is, to create an inter-national role for its currency akin to the international...
Saving Europe
How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Three times in the few years since the global financial crisis erupted, the euro has come close to extinction, endangering both the world economy and history's most ambitious project in shared sovereignty. Yet each time, the case for a common currency proved to be more compelling than its weaknesses,...
Uncharted Strait
The Future of China-Taiwan Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
The future of the Taiwan Strait is more wide open than at any other time in recent decades. Tensions between China and Taiwan have eased since 2008. But the movement toward full rapprochement remains fragile. Whether the two sides of the Strait can sustain and expand a cooperative relationship after...
Dilemmas of a Trading Nation
Japan and the United States in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The balancing of competing interests and goals will have momentous consequences for Japan—and the United States—in their quest for economic growth, social harmony, and international clout.
Japan and the United States face difficult choices in charting their paths ahead as trading nations....
Agents of Change
Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
While governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving social outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within. In Agents of Change, three cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs present case studies of social innovation that...
JFK's Forgotten Crisis
Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between...
Aspiration and Ambivalence
Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming. Aspiration and Ambivalence analyzes the U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed recommendations...
Afghan Lessons
Culture, Diplomacy, and Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Fernando Gentilini served nearly two years as the civilian representative of NATO in Afghanistan, running a counterinsurgency campaign in the wartorn nation. Afghan Lessons is the fascinating story of his mission, a firsthand view of Afghanistan through a kaleidoscope. He explores Afghan history,...