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Kamarck Failure should not be an option in the presidency, but for too long it has been the norm. From the botched attempt to rescue the U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter and the missed intelligence on Al Qaeda before 9-11 under George W. Bush to, most recently, the computer meltdown that marked the arrival of health care reform under Barack Obama, the American presidency has been a profile in failure. In Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck surveys these and other recent presidential failures to understand why Americans have lost faith in their leaders—and how they can get it back. Kamarck argues that presidents today spend too much time talking and not enough time governing, and that they have allowed themselves to become more and more distant from the federal bureaucracy that is supposed to implement policy. After decades of “imperial” and “rhetorical” presidencies, we are in need of a “managerial” president. This White House insider and former Harvard academic explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership but also run a competent, successful administration. Elaine C. Kamarck is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at Brookings and the founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management. She is also on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a public sector scholar with wide experience in government, academia, and politics. Kamarck is an expert on government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD countries, and developing countries. In addition, she focuses her research on the presidential nomination system and American politics and has worked in several American presidential campaigns. April 2016, 6 x 9, 224 pp. cloth, 9780815727781, $27.00t Brookings Institution Press | 1-800-343-4499 | [email protected] 1 NEW TITLES / BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform Malcolm K. Sparrow Whatever happened to community and problem-oriented policing? How the current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform. The police shooting of an unarmed young black man in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 sparked riots and the beginning of a national conversation on race and policing. Much of the ensuing discussion has focused on the persistence of racial disparities and the extraordinarily high rate at which American police kill civilians (an average of roughly three per day). Malcolm Sparrow, who teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School and is a former British police detective, argues that other factors in the development of police theory and practice over the last twenty-five years have also played a major role in contributing to these tragedies and to a great many other cases involving excessive police force and community alienation. Sparrow shows how the core ideas of community and problem-solving policing have failed to thrive. In many police departments these foundational ideas have been reduced to mere rhetoric. The result is heavy reliance on narrow quantitative metrics, where police define how well they are doing by tallying up traffic tickets OF RELATED INTEREST issued (Ferguson), or arrests made for petty crimes (in New York). Sparrow’s analysis shows what it will take for police departments to escape their narrow focus and perverse metrics and turn back to making public safety and The Regulatory Craft: public cooperation their primary goals. Police, according to Sparrow, are in the Controlling Risks, Solving risk-control business and need to grasp the fundamental nature of that challenge Problems, and Managing and develop a much more sophisticated understanding of its implications for Compliance mission, methods, measurement, partnerships, and analysis. Malcolm K. Sparrow Malcolm K. Sparrow is professor of the Practice of Public Management May 2000, 6 x 9, 370 pp. at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and faculty chair of paper, 9780815780656, $24.95 the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and ebook, 9780815798286, $24.95 Enforcement Agencies.” His previous books include Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing (with Moore & Kennedy, 1990); The Regulatory Craft (Brookings, 2000); and The Character of Harms (Cambridge University Press, 2008). April 2016, 5.5 x 8.25, 200 pp. cloth, 9780815727811, $25.00t ebook, 9780815727828, $19.00 2 Brookings Institution Press | 1-800-343-4499 | [email protected] BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS / NEW TITLES Iran Reconsidered: The Nuclear Deal and the Quest for a New Moderation Suzanne Maloney The Iranian nuclear deal may have stilled regional tensions, but will it exacerbate political differences with Iran? Iran’s Islamic Republic has been engaged in a process of reform and reinvention for most of its history, yet each experiment in moderation has gone awry. Iran’s revolutionary theocracy has evolved, but the most problematic aspects of its ideology and institutions have endured since 1979. Can the Iran nuclear deal, an agreement crafted through intense dialogue with Iran’s old