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Policy Leadership and the Blame Trap: Seven Strategies for Avoiding Policy Stalemate

March 29, 2013, R. Kent Weaver

But Will It Work?: Implementation Analysis to Improve Government Performance

February 2010, R. Kent Weaver

Target Compliance: The Final Frontier of Policy Implementation

September 2009, R. Kent Weaver

Bridging the Social Security Divide: Lessons From Abroad

June 2008, R. Kent Weaver

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

June 2005, R. Kent Weaver

The Structure of the TANF Block Grant

April 2002, R. Kent Weaver

State Policy Choices Under Welfare Reform

April 2002, R. Kent Weaver and Thomas Gais

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

March 17, 2002, R. Kent Weaver

Neediest Families in Texas Deserve a Fairer Deal

February 21, 2002, Debra Hevenstone and R. Kent Weaver

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

September 6, 2001, R. Kent Weaver

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

August 24, 2001, R. Kent Weaver

Social Security's False Alarm

July 19, 2001, Alicia H. Munnell and R. Kent Weaver

How to Privatize Social Security

July 9, 2001, Alicia H. Munnell and R. Kent Weaver

The Politics of TANF Reauthorization: Panel II

January 25, 2001

Welfare Reform Reauthorization: An Overview of Problems and Issues

January 2001, Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver and Ron Haskins

Welfare Reform: An Overview of Effects to Date

January 2001, Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver and Ron Haskins

Ending Welfare as We Know It

2000, R. Kent Weaver

Time to Stop the Perennial Bidding Wars Over Super

May 3, 2000, R. Kent Weaver

It Ought to Be Easier to Change Presidents

January 28, 1998, R. Kent Weaver

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

Winter 1997, Gary Burtless and R. Kent Weaver

How Preston Manning Missed the Wave

December 7, 1996, R. Kent Weaver

Do Institutions Matter?

Government Capabilities in the U.S. And Abroad

1993, Bert A. Rockman and R. Kent Weaver

The Collapse of Canada?

1992, R. Kent Weaver

Automatic Government

The Politics of Indexation

1988, R. Kent Weaver