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The United States is unique in the industrialized world in the number of people without health insurance. In 2002, nearly 44 million Americans did not have health insurance coverage. Despite long-running study of this problem, the political debate on health insurance is often based on conventional wisdom and studies that haven’t been int [...]

Health care policy is an important issue in the ongoing debate about centralized versus decentralized government. This book illustrates how theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations can provide a useful framework for examining how to "divide up the job" of providing health care. It assesses the capacity of the states to actua [...]

Homelessness has now been on the American policy agenda for close to two decades. In 1989, when the Urban Institute published America's Homeless, by Martha R. Burt and Barbara Cohen, policymakers and the public may have hoped that we could end the crisis relatively quickly. The arrival of the new millenium has not fulfilled that expectati [...]

In Holding Police Accountable, twelve of today’s leading scholars on police work examine seminal research on the use of force and how it can inform today’s research. The volume celebrates the late James J. Fyfe, the preeminent scholar on police use of force. In 1978 Fyfe found that administrative controls—training, guidelines, and regulat [...]

This book makes the case for including the housing sector in the continuing development of welfare reform policies. The recent debate has shaped a new standard for safety net programs-not only must they redress problems, they must help move people toward economic self-sufficiency. But until recently, government housing programs have bee [...]