Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect
Forthcoming
Paul Gary Wyckoff | $26.50
It seems as if those who set our national agenda are those who shout the loudest. But shouldn’t scholarship count for more than preconceived notions? more
Child Welfare: The Challenges of Collaboration
Timothy Ross | $29.50
When youth in the child welfare system face problems such as juvenile delinquency, the agencies charged with their care often find that they do not have the capacity to act without the cooperation of other government departments. more
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, and Lynette Rawlings | $29.50
Scholars and public housing officials assess whether—and how—public housing policies can simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race. more
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, second edition
Saul D. Hoffman and Rebecca A. Maynard | $34.50
Teen childbearing in the United States has been declining since 1991, yet we consistently have the highest teen birth rates in the industrialized world. In 1997, Kids Having Kids was the first comprehensive effort to identify the consequences of teen childbearing for the mothers, the fathers, the children, and our society. This updated second edition features a new chapter evaluating teen pregnancy interventions, along with revised and updated versions of most first edition chapters. more
Asset Building and Low-Income Families
Signe-Mary Mckernan and Michael Sherraden | $29.50
Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. more
Meet the Author Harry Hatry, author of Performance Measurement: Getting Results, Second Edition is a distinguished fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Institute's Public Management Program. He spoke about how performance measurement can improve service delivery: Hatry: It's the attempt in a systematic way to regularly provide data to agency officials about the outcomes and the efficiency of their programs. That information should provide guidance for managers to improve, to find out where problems exist, to see where they are doing well and where they are not doing well. They can then take action and use later performance measurement reports to see if the desired outcomes occurred. more | | |
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