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Urban Institute Press Nonprofits and Government:
Collaboration and Conflict, second edition
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle, editors
Relationships between government and nonprofit
organizations continue to grow, proving more fruitful than
many had feared and more problematic than many had hoped.
This new edition is fully updated, with two new chapters.
http://www.urban.org/books/npag2/
Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: $29.50 • 466 pages • October 2006 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-732-2
The Great Disconnect
Paul Gary Wyckoff Managing Government Property Assets:
It seems our national agenda is set by those who shout the International Experiences
loudest. But shouldn’t scholarship win over ideology? Wyckoff Olga Kaganova and James McKellar, editors
debunks myths while explaining the need for evidence-based Governments own a vast array of real property—roads,
policy, and recommends ways to impart empirical standards to public housing, water distribution systems, office buildings.
the next generation of leaders. Responsibility for each is usually fragmented across agencies.
http://www.urban.org/books/policyandevidence/ But a new discipline is emerging: organizational management
$26.50 • 168 pages • May 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-749-0 specific to this important component of public wealth.
http://www.urban.org/books/property-assets/
$32.50 • 448 pages • April 2006 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-730-8
Nonprofits and Business

Joseph J. Cordes and C. Eugene Steuerle, editors Performance Measurement:
In this age of corporate philanthropy and socially responsible Getting Results, second edition
companies, the barrier between the nonprofit and business Harry P. Hatry, with a chapter by Joseph S. Wholey
worlds is more permeable than ever. Nonprofits and Business Harry Hatry is a pioneer in developing methods for
assembles diverse researchers from commercial, economic, government and human services agencies to measure
operational, and legal backgrounds to explore the trend. their efficacy. In this handbook he covers every step, from
http://www.urban.org/books/nonprofitsandbusiness/ identifying objectives and outcomes to finding the best
$29.50 • 296 pages • December 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-741-4 sources of data.
http://www.urban.org/books/performancemeasurement/
$34.50 • 344 pages • January 2007 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-734-6
The Nonprofit Almanac 2008

Private Neighborhoods and the
Kennard T. Wing, Thomas H. Pollak, and Amy Blackwood
Transformation of Local Government
Foreword by Elizabeth T. Boris
Robert H. Nelson
America’s civil sector continues to grow faster than its
From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States
business sector or the government. This almanac illuminates
was built in a development governed by a neighborhood
nonprofits’ place in the national economy and trends in
association. More than 50 million Americans now live in these
employment, private giving, volunteering, and finances
communities. Private Neighborhoods examines the political and
http://www.urban.org/books/nonprofit_almanac/
economic consequences of this change.
http://www.urban.org/books/privateneighborhoods/
$32.50 • 494 pages • July 2005 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-751-3
Urban Institute Press Nonprofits and Government:
Collaboration and Conflict, second edition
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle, editors
Relationships between government and nonprofit
organizations continue to grow, proving more fruitful than
many had feared and more problematic than many had hoped.
This new edition is fully updated, with two new chapters.
http://www.urban.org/books/npag2/
Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: $29.50 • 466 pages • October 2006 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-732-2
The Great Disconnect
Paul Gary Wyckoff Managing Government Property Assets:
It seems our national agenda is set by those who shout the International Experiences
loudest. But shouldn’t scholarship win over ideology? Wyckoff Olga Kaganova and James McKellar, editors
debunks myths while explaining the need for evidence-based Governments own a vast array of real property—roads,
policy, and recommends ways to impart empirical standards to public housing, water distribution systems, office buildings.
the next generation of leaders. Responsibility for each is usually fragmented across agencies.
http://www.urban.org/books/policyandevidence/ But a new discipline is emerging: organizational management
$26.50 • 168 pages • May 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-749-0 specific to this important component of public wealth.
http://www.urban.org/books/property-assets/
Nonprofits and Business

Joseph J. Cordes and C. Eugene Steuerle, editors Performance Measurement:
In this age of corporate philanthropy and socially responsible Getting Results, second edition
companies, the barrier between the nonprofit and business Harry P. Hatry, with a chapter by Joseph S. Wholey
worlds is more permeable than ever. Nonprofits and Business Harry Hatry is a pioneer in developing methods for
assembles diverse researchers from commercial, economic, government and human services agencies to measure
operational, and legal backgrounds to explore the trend. their efficacy. In this handbook he covers every step, from
http://www.urban.org/books/nonprofitsandbusiness/ identifying objectives and outcomes to finding the best
$29.50 • 296 pages • December 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-741-4 sources of data.
http://www.urban.org/books/performancemeasurement/
The Nonprofit Almanac 2008

Private Neighborhoods and the
Kennard T. Wing, Thomas H. Pollak, and Amy Blackwood
Transformation of Local Government
Foreword by Elizabeth T. Boris
Robert H. Nelson
America’s civil sector continues to grow faster than its
From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States
business sector or the government. This almanac illuminates
was built in a development governed by a neighborhood
nonprofits’ place in the national economy and trends in
association. More than 50 million Americans now live in these
employment, private giving, volunteering, and finances
communities. Private Neighborhoods examines the political and
http://www.urban.org/books/nonprofit_almanac/
economic consequences of this change.
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Urban Institute Press Saving America’s High Schools
Becky A. Smerdon and Kathryn M. Borman, editors
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Many recent high school reform efforts have homed in on
school size. If classes were smaller, the argument goes, they
could better address students’ individual needs. It seems
like common sense, but such changes have not proven to be
a magic bullet. This book explores large-scale quantitative
research on national high school reform efforts.
http://www.urban.org/books/savinghighschools/
Growing Up Hispanic: Health and Development of
HISPANIC
Health and Development
of Children of Immigrants
$26.50 • 244 pages • November 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-758-2
Children of Immigrants
GROWING UP
Nancy S. Landale, Susan McHale, and Alan Booth, editors
Growing Up Hispanic explores the challenging environment in
which children of Latino immigrants are raised—high poverty, Reforming Child Welfare
low academic achievement, limited access to health and social Olivia Golden
services, and uncertain political support—and examines how As the director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family
family and community affect their development and well-being. Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in
http://www.urban.org/books/growinguphispanic/
federal receivership. Here, she uses brings expertise as an
$32.50 • 368 pages • June 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-763-6
Edited by
NANCY S. LANDALE, SUSAN McHALE,
administrator, an academic, and an advocate to pinpoint the
factors that lead to success. Case studies from disparate child
and ALAN BOOTH
welfare agencies are also featured.

http://www.urban.org/books/reformingchildwelfare/
Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? $29.50 • 312 pages • July 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-759-9
Marguerite Roza
Educational Economics examines education finance from the
school’s vantage point, explaining how a patchwork of funding Intergenerational Caregiving
streams—federal block funding, foundation grants, earmarks, Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi, and
set-asides, and union mandates—often prevents schools Judith A. Seltzer, editors
from delivering academic services that mesh with their stated Dramatic changes in the American family have transformed
priorities. how we care for its oldest and youngest members. In
http://www.urban.org/books/educationaleconomics/ Intergenerational Caregiving, an interdisciplinary group of
$26.50 • 128 pages • April 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-764-3 Intergenerational
Caregiving scholars considers our changing families and their effects
on our relationships and resources.
Edited by
Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi,
http://www.urban.org/books/intergenerationalcaregiving/
and Judith A. Seltzer
Creating a New Teaching Profession $29.50 • 420 pages • November 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-747-6
Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway, editors
“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—
ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” Goldhaber and
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social
Hannaway conclude. But putting this advice into practice may
Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, second edition
Saul D. Hoffman and Rebecca A. Maynard, editors
require radical reforms in the way schools attract, retain, and
The first edition of Kids Having Kids achieved a new methodo-
evaluate teachers. The scholars here offer innovative proposals
logical sophistication by isolating teen birth itself from the
to jolt the teaching profession from complacency.
mothers’ circumstances and, thus, discovering its true costs.
http://www.urban.org/books/newteachingprofession/
This updated second edition also evaluates prevention initiatives.
http://www.urban.org/books/kidshavingkids/
$34.50 • 460 pages • October 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-745-2
Urban Institute Press Saving America’s High Schools
Becky A. Smerdon and Kathryn M. Borman, editors
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Many recent high school reform efforts have homed in on
school size. If classes were smaller, the argument goes, they
could better address students’ individual needs. It seems
like common sense, but such changes have not proven to be
a magic bullet. This book explores large-scale quantitative
research on national high school reform efforts.
http://www.urban.org/books/savinghighschools/
Growing Up Hispanic: Health and Development of
HISPANIC
Health and Development
of Children of Immigrants
Children of Immigrants
GROWING UP
Nancy S. Landale, Susan McHale, and Alan Booth, editors
Growing Up Hispanic explores the challenging environment in
which children of Latino immigrants are raised—high poverty, Reforming Child Welfare
low academic achievement, limited access to health and social Olivia Golden
services, and uncertain political support—and examines how As the director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family
family and community affect their development and well-being. Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in
http://www.urban.org/books/growinguphispanic/
federal receivership. Here, she uses brings expertise as an
Edited by
NANCY S. LANDALE, SUSAN McHALE,
administrator, an academic, and an advocate to pinpoint the
factors that lead to success. Case studies from disparate child
and ALAN BOOTH
welfare agencies are also featured.

http://www.urban.org/books/reformingchildwelfare/
Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? $29.50 • 312 pages • July 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-759-9
Marguerite Roza
Educational Economics examines education finance from the
school’s vantage point, explaining how a patchwork of funding Intergenerational Caregiving
streams—federal block funding, foundation grants, earmarks, Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi, and
set-asides, and union mandates—often prevents schools Judith A. Seltzer, editors
from delivering academic services that mesh with their stated Dramatic changes in the American family have transformed
priorities. how we care for its oldest and youngest members. In
http://www.urban.org/books/educationaleconomics/ Intergenerational Caregiving, an interdisciplinary group of
$26.50 • 128 pages • April 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-764-3 Intergenerational
Caregiving scholars considers our changing families and their effects
on our relationships and resources.
Edited by
Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi,
http://www.urban.org/books/intergenerationalcaregiving/
and Judith A. Seltzer
Creating a New Teaching Profession $29.50 • 420 pages • November 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-747-6
Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway, editors
“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—
ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” Goldhaber and
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social
Hannaway conclude. But putting this advice into practice may
Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, second edition
Saul D. Hoffman and Rebecca A. Maynard, editors
require radical reforms in the way schools attract, retain, and
The first edition of Kids Having Kids achieved a new methodo-
evaluate teachers. The scholars here offer innovative proposals
logical sophistication by isolating teen birth itself from the
to jolt the teaching profession from complacency.
mothers’ circumstances and, thus, discovering its true costs.
http://www.urban.org/books/newteachingprofession/
This updated second edition also evaluates prevention initiatives.
http://www.urban.org/books/kidshavingkids/
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A HANDBOOK FOR RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS
CHILDREN
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Urban Institute Press Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform:
Learning from Failure
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox
In criminal justice reform, neither citizens nor officials have
endorsed the view that problems are solved iteratively. But Trial
and Error argues that public policies cannot be divided neatly
into successes and failures. The book examines programs
that fell short of their objectives and dedicated reformers who
did not quite achieve their goals.
Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Handbook for http://www.urban.org/books/trialanderror/
Researchers and Practitioners
J. Mark Eddy and Julie Poehlmann, editors CHILDREN $26.50 • 148 pages • June 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-767-4
The nearly 2 million children in the United States whose

parents are in prison are more likely to experience learning Child Welfare: The Challenges of Collaboration
difficulties, poor health, and substance abuse, and eventually Timothy Ross
be incarcerated themselves. Children of Incarcerated Parents Child welfare workers often need cooperation from other
integrates scholarship from criminology, sociology, social A HANDBOOK FOR RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS agencies that have their own goals and regulations. The tangle
work, psychology, human development, and family studies. of red tape that can result frustrates staff and robs youth of
http://www.urban.org/books/childrenofincarceratedparents/ confidence in the system. Child Welfare sets forth real-world
$29.50 • 364 pages • November 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-768-1 examples to guide interagency collaboration.
http://www.urban.org/books/childwelfare/
$29.50 • 268 pages • March 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-756-8
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control
John K. Roman, Terence Dunworth, and Kevin Marsh, editors
Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today’s climate, But They All Come Back:
need to demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
dollars invested. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control Jeremy Travis
guides researchers through cost collection, design of But They All Come Back explores the nexus of returning
bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to prisoners with seven policy domains: public safety, families
estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and
elements into a unified analysis. community capacity. Travis proposes a new architecture for
http://www.urban.org/books/cost-benefit-analysis/ our criminal justice system, organized around five principles of
$26.50 • 250 pages • October 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-766-7 reentry, that will encourage change and spur innovation.
http://www.urban.org/books/AllComeBack/
Holding Police Accountable
Candace McCoy, editor
Book 1 in the John Jay Series on Criminal Justice Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse
In Holding Police Accountable, leading criminal justice Jeffrey A. Butts and John Roman, editors
scholars examine research on police use of force, honoring State and local governments have started hundreds of specialized
the late James J. Fyfe. Fyfe’s 1978 discovery—that training edIted by
drug courts to provide judicial supervision and coordinate
and regulation reduced deadly shootings by officers without substance abuse treatment for drug-involved juveniles. Juvenile
adversely affecting crime rates—revolutionized his discipline. HOLDING POLICE Drug Courts is the first book to examine the ideas behind
http://www.urban.org/books/holdingpoliceaccountable/ ACCOUNTABLE juvenile drug courts and explore their history and popularity.
$26.50 • 252 pages • July 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-765-0 IntroductIon by
S a m u e l Wa l k e r http://www.urban.org/pubs/JuvenileDrugCourts/
Urban Institute Press Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform:
Learning from Failure
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox
In criminal justice reform, neither citizens nor officials have
endorsed the view that problems are solved iteratively. But Trial
and Error argues that public policies cannot be divided neatly
into successes and failures. The book examines programs
that fell short of their objectives and dedicated reformers who
did not quite achieve their goals.
Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Handbook for http://www.urban.org/books/trialanderror/
Researchers and Practitioners
J. Mark Eddy and Julie Poehlmann, editors CHILDREN $26.50 • 148 pages • June 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-767-4
The nearly 2 million children in the United States whose

parents are in prison are more likely to experience learning Child Welfare: The Challenges of Collaboration
difficulties, poor health, and substance abuse, and eventually Timothy Ross
be incarcerated themselves. Children of Incarcerated Parents Child welfare workers often need cooperation from other
integrates scholarship from criminology, sociology, social A HANDBOOK FOR RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS agencies that have their own goals and regulations. The tangle
work, psychology, human development, and family studies. of red tape that can result frustrates staff and robs youth of
http://www.urban.org/books/childrenofincarceratedparents/ confidence in the system. Child Welfare sets forth real-world
$29.50 • 364 pages • November 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-768-1 examples to guide interagency collaboration.
http://www.urban.org/books/childwelfare/
$29.50 • 268 pages • March 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-756-8
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control
John K. Roman, Terence Dunworth, and Kevin Marsh, editors
Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today’s climate, But They All Come Back:
need to demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
dollars invested. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control Jeremy Travis
guides researchers through cost collection, design of But They All Come Back explores the nexus of returning
bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to prisoners with seven policy domains: public safety, families
estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and
elements into a unified analysis. community capacity. Travis proposes a new architecture for
http://www.urban.org/books/cost-benefit-analysis/ our criminal justice system, organized around five principles of
$26.50 • 250 pages • October 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-766-7 reentry, that will encourage change and spur innovation.
http://www.urban.org/books/AllComeBack/
Holding Police Accountable
Candace McCoy, editor
Book 1 in the John Jay Series on Criminal Justice Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse
In Holding Police Accountable, leading criminal justice Jeffrey A. Butts and John Roman, editors
scholars examine research on police use of force, honoring State and local governments have started hundreds of specialized
the late James J. Fyfe. Fyfe’s 1978 discovery—that training edIted by
drug courts to provide judicial supervision and coordinate
and regulation reduced deadly shootings by officers without substance abuse treatment for drug-involved juveniles. Juvenile
adversely affecting crime rates—revolutionized his discipline. HOLDING POLICE Drug Courts is the first book to examine the ideas behind
http://www.urban.org/books/holdingpoliceaccountable/ ACCOUNTABLE juvenile drug courts and explore their history and popularity.
$26.50 • 252 pages • July 2010 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-765-0 IntroductIon by
S a m u e l Wa l k e r http://www.urban.org/pubs/JuvenileDrugCourts/
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social welfare policies

Martha R. Burt &
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Demetra Smith Nightingale

Social Safety Net
Repairing the U.S.
Urban Institute Press Work-Life Policies
Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, editors
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Work-Life Policies assembles diverse researchers—industrial
psychologists, labor organizers, policy analysts, management
scholars—who have moved beyond descriptive studies into
rigorous intervention research on work-life balance for both
salaried and hourly workers. Their investigations examine not
only formal policies but also changes in workplace culture.
http://www.urban.org/books/worklifepolicies/
Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net
$32.50 • 388 pages • February 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-748-3
Martha R. Burt and Demetra Smith Nightingale
The rising poverty and unemployment triggered by the
recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure
social safety net. Such programs should protect vulnerable Asset Building and Low-Income Families
families, but the United States falls behind other countries in Signe-Mary McKernan and Michael Sherraden, editors
accomplishing these goals. This book recommends ways we Policies that allow or encourage aid recipients to build assets
can meet a national commitment to end poverty. are an increasingly popular strategy to help low-income
http://www.urban.org/books/repairingussafetynet/ families achieve financial stability. This data-rich volume
$29.50 • 288 pages • December 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-761-2 assesses a growing body of research and suggests ways to
translate it into policy that works.
http://www.urban.org/books/assetbuilding/
$29.50 • 300 pages • September 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-754-4
The Housing Policy Revolution:
Networks and Neighborhoods
David J. Erickson
Partnerships among advocates, local government, and the International Perspectives on Social Security Reform
private sector, with the aid of federal tax incentives and block Rudolph G. Penner, editor
grants, have transformed our response to public housing. This Other countries have not been as reluctant as the United
book analyzes the revolution through historical political analysis States to modify—even overhaul—their public pension
and detailed case studies. systems. Canada, Sweden, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Italy
http://www.urban.org/books/housingevolution/ have much to teach us about what works (and what doesn’t).
$29.50 • 264 pages • June 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-760-5 http://www.urban.org/books/socialsecurityreform/
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation

Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, and Lynette Rawlings Reshaping the American Workforce in a
Recent initiatives have aimed to reform distressed developments Changing Economy
but have largely ignored the role of racial segregation in creating Harry J. Holzer and Demetra Smith Nightingale, editors
troubled communities. Can housing policies simultaneously What directions should workforce policy take in light of
address poverty and discrimination? major developments such as baby boomer retirements and
http://www.urban.org/books/publichousing/ continuing globalization? Here, labor market experts answer
$29.50 • 304 pages • December 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-755-1 with fresh insights firmly grounded in research.
http://www.urban.org/books/reshaping/
Urban Institute Press Work-Life Policies
Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, editors
spring 2011 www.uipress.org Work-Life Policies assembles diverse researchers—industrial
psychologists, labor organizers, policy analysts, management
scholars—who have moved beyond descriptive studies into
rigorous intervention research on work-life balance for both
salaried and hourly workers. Their investigations examine not
only formal policies but also changes in workplace culture.
http://www.urban.org/books/worklifepolicies/
Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net
Martha R. Burt and Demetra Smith Nightingale
The rising poverty and unemployment triggered by the
recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure
social safety net. Such programs should protect vulnerable Asset Building and Low-Income Families
families, but the United States falls behind other countries in Signe-Mary McKernan and Michael Sherraden, editors
accomplishing these goals. This book recommends ways we Policies that allow or encourage aid recipients to build assets
can meet a national commitment to end poverty. are an increasingly popular strategy to help low-income
http://www.urban.org/books/repairingussafetynet/ families achieve financial stability. This data-rich volume
$29.50 • 288 pages • December 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-761-2 assesses a growing body of research and suggests ways to
translate it into policy that works.
http://www.urban.org/books/assetbuilding/
$29.50 • 300 pages • September 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-754-4
The Housing Policy Revolution:
Networks and Neighborhoods
David J. Erickson
Partnerships among advocates, local government, and the International Perspectives on Social Security Reform
private sector, with the aid of federal tax incentives and block Rudolph G. Penner, editor
grants, have transformed our response to public housing. This Other countries have not been as reluctant as the United
book analyzes the revolution through historical political analysis States to modify—even overhaul—their public pension
and detailed case studies. systems. Canada, Sweden, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Italy
http://www.urban.org/books/housingevolution/ have much to teach us about what works (and what doesn’t).
$29.50 • 264 pages • June 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-760-5 http://www.urban.org/books/socialsecurityreform/
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation

Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, and Lynette Rawlings Reshaping the American Workforce in a
Recent initiatives have aimed to reform distressed developments Changing Economy
but have largely ignored the role of racial segregation in creating Harry J. Holzer and Demetra Smith Nightingale, editors
troubled communities. Can housing policies simultaneously What directions should workforce policy take in light of
address poverty and discrimination? major developments such as baby boomer retirements and
http://www.urban.org/books/publichousing/ continuing globalization? Here, labor market experts answer
$29.50 • 304 pages • December 2008 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-755-1 with fresh insights firmly grounded in research.
http://www.urban.org/books/reshaping/
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Urban Institute Press Local Tax Policy: A Federalist Perspective,
second edition
spring 2011 www.uipress.org
David Brunori
Local governments are struggling to raise revenue as their
fiscal autonomy continues its decades-long decline. Local
Tax Policy evaluates various relief proposals and champions
strengthening the oft-maligned property tax.
http://www.urban.org/books/localtaxpolicy/
Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax $26.50 • 180 pages • December 2007 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-744-5
Daniel N. Shaviro
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year
As globalization, capital mobility, financial innovation, and Taxing Capital Income
political polarization destabilize tax policy, this book maps Henry J. Aaron, Leonard E. Burman, and C. Eugene Steuerle, editors
the path to fair, revenue-generating reform. Shaviro assesses Whether to tax income from capital has sparked debate since
the threats to America’s corporate tax and challenges our country’s inception. Does taxing capital income ensure
conventional wisdom on how to meet them. progressivity or merely discourage saving? In this volume, top
http://www.urban.org/books/uscorporatetax/ tax scholars and practitioners consider the ramifications of this
$26.50 • 220 pages • February 2009 • paper, ISBN 978-0-87766-757-5 fundamental source of revenue.
http://www.urban.org/books/taxingcapitalincome/
Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, second edition
C. Eugene Steuerle
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective, second edition
“Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy is, at its heart, an exciting,
David Brunori
if not always pretty, tale of democratic decisionmaking,” writes
C. Eugene Steuerle in his analysis of taxation from the post–
State tax systems are in trouble: the federal government has
World War II era through the last Bush administration. Tax
shifted responsibility for social programs and tax cuts have
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