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Has the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) been successful in reducing the flow of undocumented immigrants to the United States? Urban Institute and RAND analysts under the joint Program for Research on Immigration Policy, as well as other immigration experts, assess IRCA's implementation and impact, paying particular attentio [...]

Long before "reinventing government" came into vogue, the Urban Institute pioneered methods for government and human services agencies to measure the performance of their programs. This book, by a leader in the field, synthesizes more than two decades of work into a comprehensive guide to performance measurement. Hatry explains every comp [...]

Long before reinventing government came into vogue, the Urban Institute pioneered methods for government and human services agencies to measure the performance of their programs. This comprehensive guidebook synthesizes more than two decades of Harry Hatry's groundbreaking work. It covers every component of the performance measurement pro [...]

This is the final overview volume of Changing Domestic Priorities, the highly acclaimed 26-volume series which documents the impact of the Reagan administration on the U.S. people, economy, and ways of government.

With the warring between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, advocacy groups on one side and advocacy groups on the other, 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? Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age debunks myths about ec [...]