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What are the most cost-effective ways to increase voter turnout? Whether the ambition is to win elections, promote civic engagement, or bolster the legitimacy of democratic institutions, this question is of enormous significance to those who run and study campaigns. Since the original edition appeared in 2004 Get Out the Vote has become the indispensable guide to understand how to mobilize voters. Combining information from their own extensive...

What are the most cost-effective ways to increase voter turnout? Whether the ambition is to win elections, promote civic engagement, or bolster the legitimacy of democratic institutions, this question is of enormous significance to those who run and study campaigns. Since the original edition appeared in 2004 Get Out the Vote has become the indispensable guide to understand how to mobilize voters. Combining information from their own extensive...

The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan - America's longest and one of its most frustrating - serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war. In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Now updated with a new preface that addresses the Revolutionary War and brief ob...

Does the Death penalty violate the Constitution?In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues yes, it does: it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently, thus violating the ban on ¿cruel and unusual punishments¿ in the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.Against the Death Penalty contains the full text of Justice Breyer¿s dissent in the case of Glossip v. Gross, which involved an unsuccessful challenge to the state of Oklahomäs...

Drawing on meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both parties, and years of experience, this book explores one of the most important questions in American politics¿how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years.

Drawing on meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both parties, and years of experience, this book explores one of the most important questions in American politics¿how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years.

Japan¿s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan¿s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country¿s security profile.

Japan¿s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan¿s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country¿s security profile.

Much has changed in the sixty years since the 1960 election, but every four years, readers have been able to count on a single volume to provide a detailed examination of federal campaign finance. Financing the 2020 Election is the latest in this series, providing a full picture of raising and spending by campaigns, parties, and outside actors-all in an election cycle both disrupted and shaped by a global pandemic and a polarizing president at...

In this book, Bruce Riedel, one of Americäs leading experts on the Middle East, provides a history of US relations with the various entities of north and south Yemen, and the first in-depth review of Americäs role in the deadly Saudi directed war in the Yemens. Three Presidents¿Obama, Trump, and Biden-- have been deeply involved in this conflict. Riedel places this current war in the context of Americäs history of engaging with the Yemens. Fro...

The US transportation system is composed of interconnected sub-systems that provide urban and intercity passenger and freight service and that operate by using infrastructure that facilitates surface, water, and air transportation. Transportation reduces the cost of distance, which includes the monetary cost, travel or shipping time, and safety consequences of moving people and goods from their origins to their destinations. An efficient trans...

The US transportation system is composed of interconnected sub-systems that provide urban and intercity passenger and freight service and that operate by using infrastructure that facilitates surface, water, and air transportation. Transportation reduces the cost of distance, which includes the monetary cost, travel or shipping time, and safety consequences of moving people and goods from their origins to their destinations. An efficient trans...

What wasn't learned from a U.S. intervention that succeeded In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by vendors and sunbathers. Fortunately, the rest of their mission-helping to end Lebanon's first civil war-went nearly as smoothly and successfully, thanks in large part to the skillful work of American diplomats who helped arrange a compromise solution. Future American interventions i...

The Regulation of Digital Industries calls for a single industry regulatory agency to promote competition, privacy and free speech in digital industries.

The Regulation of Digital Industries calls for a single industry regulatory agency to promote competition, privacy and free speech in digital industries.

The 2020 election cycle saw not only a polarizing president run for re-election amidst a global pandemic, but also record levels of spending on campaigns for the White House and for Congress. In this volume, experts examine a wide range of topics about the financing of campaigns in 2020 and place the election in broader historical context.

Build Me the Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem.

Next Generation Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem.

As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, while being essentially unsupervised. Wheeler calls for an era of public interest oversight that embraces new protections for consumers and competition and encourages continued innovation.

Edited by Nora Lustig, the Commitment to Equity Handbook. A Guide to Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (Brookings Institution Press and CEQ Institute-Tulane University) is a unique manual detailing the theory and practical methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University for determining the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty. Policymakers, social planners,...