Brookings: Experts - R. Kent Weaver

Target Compliance: The Final Frontier of Policy Implementation

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Voters elect governments to solve social problems and governments design and implement an array of programs to ensure the public good. However, little theoretical attention has been devoted to the final step of the implementation chain: explanations of why the targets of public policies do or do not “comply” with those policies. Kent Weaver focuses on why program “targets” frequently fail to act in the way that program designers intended and wanted, even when it appears to be in their self-interest to do so.

Bridging the Social Security Divide: Lessons From Abroad

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Kent Weaver argues that a new approach to Social Security reform requires the president and congressional leaders to agree on an overall mandate for a commission named through a bipartisan nominating process designed to generate a group that is likely to focus on practical, consensus-building solutions. Special procedures in each house of Congress would provide expedited consideration of the commission’s reform package and alternatives, while providing incentives for constructive congressional engagement in the reform process.

Social Security Smorgasbord? Lessons from Sweden's Individual Pension Accounts

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Policy Brief #140, by R. Kent Weaver (June 2005)

The Structure of the TANF Block Grant

Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Several questions about the block grant need to be addressed during the debate on TANF reauthorization, which must be completed by October 1, 2002. These include the size of the block grant and the formula for allocating it among states, whether additional funds should be provided to states during recessions, and whether the TANF performance bonuses should be revised or dropped. R. Kent Weaver outlines several policy options for addressing these issues.

State Policy Choices Under Welfare Reform

Tue, 02 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas Gais and R. Kent Weaver discuss questions raised by the combination of work-focused policy mandates and increased state discretion.

Note to Congress: Compromise; There are only two options: cutting benefits or committing resources.

Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2002

Neediest Families in Texas Deserve a Fairer Deal

Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Houston Chronicle, February 21, 2002

Whether Social Security Funds Should be Invested Collectively or Through a System of Individual Accounts

Thu, 06 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Testimony by R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Before The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, September 6, 2001

For Social Security, Opt-outs Don't Add Up

Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Baltimore Sun, August 24, 2001

Social Security's False Alarm

Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution, and Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College in The Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2001

How to Privatize Social Security

Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Washington Post, July 09, 2001.

Ending Welfare as We Know It

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Weaver provides a definitive political history of the 1996 welfare reform lesgislation. He addresses three sets of questions about the politics of welfare reform: the dismal history of comprehensive AFDC reform initiatives; the dramatic changes in th

Time to Stop the Perennial Bidding Wars Over Super

Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by R. Kent Weaver, in the New Zealand Herald, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, May 3, 2000

It Ought to Be Easier to Change Presidents

Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 1998

Reinventing Welfare... Again: The latest version of reform needs a tune-up

Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Gary Burtless and R. Kent Weaver (Winter 1997)

How Preston Manning Missed the Wave

Sat, 07 Dec 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, in The Globe and Mail, December 7, 1996

Do Institutions Matter? : Government Capabilities in the U.S. And Abroad

Tue, 02 Mar 1993 00:00:00 GMT

&Provides the kind of objective evaluation of political institutions that has too long been missing from the presidential versus parliamentary debate. It is an important read.& Perspectives on Political Science

The Collapse of Canada?

Tue, 07 Apr 1992 00:00:00 GMT

In this book, the authors analyze the unprecedented levels of public support for sovereignty, in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec, and speculate if that could lead to the breakup of Canada.

Automatic Government : The Politics of Indexation

Fri, 01 Jul 1988 00:00:00 GMT

R. Kent Weaver examines the reasons for the growth of indexing in federal programs and its consequences for current policy. He focuses on indexing debates in six policy areas: social security, food stamps, congressional pay, dairy price supports, the