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• The Search for Social Entrepreneurship

  Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT

  
  Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research.

• Public Confidence in Charities, 2008 Report

  Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Public confidence in charities remains at contemporary lows, writes Paul C. Light in a recent report. Americans will be treated to a cascade of stories about charitable fraud, waste and abuse unless the sector takes aggressive action to create headlines about success.

• Katrina's Lesson in Readiness

  Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; The Washington Post (9/1/05)

• What It Takes to Make Charities Effective

  Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; The Chronicle of Philanthropy (9/1/05)

• Rumsfeld's Revolution at Defense

  Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Rumsfeld announced his commitment to a revolution in military affairs in his 2001 confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In a harbinger of rhetoric to come, he not only refused to rule out another round of military base closings, but he also announced his intention to reform the military acquisition process, which he declared ill-suited "to meet the demands posed by an expansion of unconventional and asymmetrical threats in an era of rapid technological advances."

• Filibusters Are Only Half the Problem

  Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; The New York Times (6/3/05)

• Too Few Questions on Bolton and Leadership

  Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; Newsday (5/15/05)

• Facing the Futures: Building Robust Nonprofits in the Pittsburgh Region

  Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Paul C. Light; The Forbes Fund (2005)

• Still Searching For Airport Security: Wasn't TSA Going to Be the Solution?

  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; The Washington Post (4/24/05)

• The Crisis Last Time: Social Security Reform

  Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light; New York Times (3/5/05)

• Vacancies Remain Unfilled for Bush Subcabinet Positions

  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, NPR's Morning Edition (02/17/05)

• The Four Pillars of High Performance : How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results

  Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In The Four Pillars of High Performance, Light paints a portrait of the “robust organization”—that rare organization which possesses both the agility to adjust to changes in the external environment at a moment’s notice, and the compass needed

• Bush's New Cabinet: Changes in Attitude

  Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Newsday (11/21/04)

• Late for Their Appointments

  Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, New York Times (11/16/04)

• The Bloat That Hurts Our Spies

  Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, The Washington Post (10/5/04)

• The 9/11 Commission's Human Capital Recommendations

  Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee (9/14/04)

• Sustaining Nonprofit Performance : The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It

  Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Paul Light argues for capacity-building measures as a way to sustain and improve the efforts of the nonprofit sector. With innovative data and insightful analysis, he demonstrates how nonprofits that invest in technology, training, and strategic planning can successfully advance their goals and restore public faith in their mission and capabilities.

• Implementing the 9/11 Commission Report

  Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, House Government Reform Committee (8/3/04)

• Fact Sheet on the Continued Thickening of Government

  Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Paul C. Light (7/23/04)

• Size of Government

  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, NPR's Morning Edition (9/8/03)

• Next Steps in Human Capital Reform

  Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (6/4/03)

• In Search of Public Service

  Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Report by Paul Light, June 2003

• The End Of the Civil Service?

  Fri, 09 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, The Washington Post (5/09/03)

• The Civil Service and National Security Personnel Improvement Act

  Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paul Light testifies before the House Reform Committee on Civil Service and National Security Personnel Improvement Act

• Restoring the President's Reorganization Authority

  Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  On April 3, 2003, Paul Light testifies before the House Government Reform Committee.

• A Come-From-Behind Victory

  Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Government Executive, (Spring 2003)

• Unleashing Reform

  Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paul Light discusses the debate caused by recent Defense Department e-mails which suggest the federal government's largest bureaucracy is about to ask Congress for the same hiring and firing freedoms the Homeland Security Department won.

• What Past and Potential Appointees Say

  Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony of Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, before the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, April 4, 2001

• Make It Easier to Say ""Yes""

  Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, December 15, 2002

• Lessons of Nonprofits

  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, in the Times Union, November 29, 2002

• Senate Passes Homeland Security Bill

  Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, on Connie Chung Tonight, November 19, 2002

• Bush's Privatization Plan Irks Labor Leaders

  Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview by Paul C. Light, Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, on NPR's Weekend Edition, November 17, 2002

• The Nonprofit Example; Find a way to make government more like a nonprofit, and it can only improve

  Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, November 2002

• Charities and Foundations Must Confront Shrinking Labor Pool, Researcher Says

  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 17, 2002

• The Content of their Character: The State of the Nonprofit Workforce

  Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Nonprofit Employees Lead Federal and Private Sector Workers in Motivation, Commitment, Sense of Mission, and Desire to Make a Difference, according to a report and survey by Paul C. Light (October 2002).

• Strikeout at INS

  Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, October 2002

• Earth to NASA

  Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, September 2002

• Designing a New Federal Shop

  Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Director, Center for Public Service, in the Washington Post, August 6, 2002

• Department of Homeland Security: A Hollow Tribute

  Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Director Center for Public Service, in Government Executive, August 2002

• Civil Service Protections

  Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, July 26, 2002

• Views of Homeland Security

  Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Director, Center for Public Service, and James M. Lindsay, Senior Fellow, foreign-policy, in the Washigton Times, July 25, 2002

• Congress' Chance to Change the FBI

  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, and Carole Plowfield, Deputy Director, Presidential Appointee Initiative, in The Hill, July 24, 2002

• Assessing the Role of the Customs Service in the New Department of Homeland Security

  Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony Before the United States Senate Finance Committee, by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Public Service, the Brookings Institution, July 16, 2002

• Show Us the Work

  Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive

• For Many Federal Workers, Job Remains Just a Paycheck

  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Instituion, in U.S.A Today, June 27, 2002

• The Troubled State of the Federal Public Service

  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Report by Paul C. Light on The Troubled State of the Federal Public Service

• Assessing the Proposed Department of Homeland Security

  Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, before the House Committee, Subcommittee on Civil Service, Census and Agency Organization

• Assessing the Department of Homeland Security

  Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information

• Deliver Them Not into Temptation: Legislative Options for Reporting Presidential Gifts

  Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations on June 18, 2002

• Bureaucracy

  Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, on NPR's Talk of the Nation, June 18, 2002

• Streamline the FBI

  Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Christian Science Monitor, on June 6, 2002

• Democracy on the Cheap

  Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, in Government Executive, June 1, 2002

• Rebuilding Trust in Charity

  Thu, 16 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution in the Christian Science Monitor, May 16, 2002

• Off With Their Heads

  Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, May 2002

• The Other March Madness -- Presidential Appointments

  Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Christian Science Monitor on April 11, 2002

• Bush Picks Wrong Time for Leadership Change at IRS

  Sun, 07 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution

• IRS Reform: Unfinished Business

  Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive on April 1, 2002

• Blame Government Bloat for Immigration Snafus

  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in U.S.A Today on March 26, 2002

• Interview With Paul Light [on American Red Cross, its inefficiency after 9/11 and other blunders]

  Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, on The O'Reilly Factor, on March 23, 2002

• Problems on the Potomac: How Relocation Policies for Presidential Appointees Can Help Win the Talent War

  Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Presidential appointees are subject to less competitive relocation policies than those in the private sector reports Paul C. Light and Carole Plowfield in "Problems on the Potomac: How Relocation Policies for Presidential Appointees Can Help Win the Talent War."

• The Need for First-Step Reform

  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Subcommittee On International Security, Proliferation, And Federal Services

• Shadow Government

  Wed, 06 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, on NPR's Morning Edition on March 6, 2002

• Our Tottering Confirmation Process

  Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Commentary by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Public Interest, Spring2002

• What Federal Employees Want From Reform

  Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Reform Watch Brief #5, by Paul C. Light (March 2002)

• Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence

  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence provides data on the impact of recent reform efforts from professionals who have observed them firsthand. Based on interviews with leading thinkers from the worlds of philanthropy, scholarship, and consulting, as well

• Getting Airport Security Right

  Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, January 2, 2002

• Presidential Appointment Process

  Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, on WAMU's Public Interest

• Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century

  Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  The federal government has been working to defend the nation, help veterans readjust, protect workers, build roads, enhance transportation, promote economic growth, and support the poor since the founding of the Republic. It is hardly likely to stop

• Bigger is Better

  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Commentary by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, on NPR's Morning Edition, November 12, 2001

• To Restore and Renew: Now is the Time to Rebuild the Federal Public Service

  Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul C. Light, Vice Presdient and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, November 2001

• A Vote of Renewed Confidence: How Americans View Presidential Appointees and Government in the Wake of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

  Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Study Finds Public Confidence in Presidential Appointees Rising Dramatically in Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks.

• Pressure to Grow

  Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #65, by Paul C. Light (October 2000)

• Leading by Example

  Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, September 1, 2001

• The Confirmation Crawl

  Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Nearly seven months into the Bush administration, fewer than half of the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet vacancies in the government have been filled. Fast as they think they are going—and it is pretty fast by recent standards—the Senate and White House are still at least six months from finishing the long list of appointments.

• Crusader at the Crossroads

  Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, August 1, 2001

• ""Nonprofit-like"" Tongue Twister or Aspiration?

  Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Paul Light, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Nonprofit Quarterly, July 2001

• From Pentagons to Pyramids: Whacking at Bloat

  Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director in Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, July 1, 2001.

• President Bush: 100 Days in the Shadows

  Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  ""Opinion by Paul C. Light in The Roll Call, June 1, 2001

• Appointments Apocalypse

  Mon, 14 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light in The Roll Call, May 14, 2001

• Big Bureaucracy

  Thu, 10 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, in The Washington Times, May 10, 2001

• Why Political Jobs Stay Empty

  Mon, 07 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in USA Today, May 7, 2001

• The Jurassic Park of Reform

  Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, May 1, 2001

• Fix Appointments Process

  Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 12, 2001

• The Breaking Down of Presidential Appointments

  Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in The Chicago Tribune, April 11, 2001

• Disclosure of Presidential Library

  Thu, 05 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony of Paul Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Instituion, before the House Subcommittee On Government Efficiency, Financial Management, And Intergovernmental Relations, April 5, 2001

• A Skeleton Crew Keeps Social Security Afloat

  Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in The Times Union, April 1, 2001

• Harbingers of a Troubled Future

  Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, April 1, 2001

• Placing the Call to Service: How Past and Future Presidential Appointees View the Appointment Process

  Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Paul C. Light (Spring 2001)

• Posts of Honor: How America's Corporate and Civic Leaders View Presidential Appointments

  Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  ""Posts of Honor: How America's Corporate and Civic Leaders View Presidential Appointments,"" reports about how America's civic and corporate leaders view the presidential appointments process.

• The Merit and Reputation of an Administration: Presidential Appointees on the Appointments Process

  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  ""The Merit and Reputation of an Administration: Presidential Appointees on the Appointments Process,"" released by The Presidential Appointee Initiative shows a presidential appointments process on the verge of collapse.

• The New Public Service

  Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Paul C. Light's new book, The New Public Service, examines federal careers and finds that they cannot compete for challenging work against the private and nonprofit sector.

• All's Not Always FAIR

  Sat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  article by Paul C. Light, Director and Vice President, the Brookings Institution, in Government Executive, December 1, 1999