New Books from Urban Institute Press

Reforming Child Welfare

Olivia Golden | $29.50

As the director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in federal receivership. Now, in Reforming Child Welfare, she employs her expertise as an administrator, an academic, and an advocate to pinpoint the factors that lead to success. more

Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect

Paul Gary Wyckoff | $26.50

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. more

The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods

David J. Erickson | $29.50

The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods illuminates how our networked approach to housing policy developed and fundamentally transformed governmental response to public welfare. Through historical political analysis and detailed case studies, the book imparts policy lessons on delivering funding for urban change. 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	Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation $29.50	Work-Life Policies $29.50
	War and Taxes $26.50	Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax $26.50
	Subprime Mortgages America's Latest Boom and Bust $26.50	Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, Second Edition $34.50
	Nonprofits & Business $29.50	The Nonprofit Almanac 2008 $39.50