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| 1980 || || || "1980. Tracking Vital Stats on Congress. Brookings’s Thomas Mann and AEI’s Norm Ornstein jointly publish “Vital Statistics on Congress,” detailing the election and composition of its membership, party structure, and staff. Mann and Ornstein also document the growing partisan divide in Congress and track the demographics of senators and representatives. The book, updated regularly, is published entirely online in 2013."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| Early 1980s || || || "Joseph Pechman, director of the Economic Studies program at Brookings, pushed hard for comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code in the early 1980s. His research led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986—a major bill that had a profound impact on the U.S. economy."<ref name="brookings.edu"/> Research by Joseph Pechman at
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| 1986 || || || "Research by Brookings Senior Fellow {{w|Joseph A. Pechman, director of the Economic Studies program at Brookings, pushed hard for comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code in the early 1980s. His research led }} leads to the {{w|Tax Reform Act of 1986—a 1986}}, a major bill that had would have a profound impact on the U.S. {{w|economyof the United States}}."<ref name="brookings.edu"/> "1986. Informing The act is designed to simplify the Tax Reform Act of 1986. landmark research. Brookings initiates a multi-year project on tax reform led by experts Henry Aaron and Harvey Galpercode, under broaden the supervision of Economic Studies Program Director Joe Pechmantax base, and eliminate many tax shelters and preferences. Their research helps inform the <ref>{{cite web |title=Tax Reform Act of 1986, a major bill that had a profound impact on the U|url=https://www.Sbritannica. economycom/topic/Tax-Reform-Act |website=britannica. com |accessdate=20 November 2019}}</ref> Pechman’s “Federal ''Federal Tax Policy” Policy'' is essential to those reforms."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1990 || || || "1990. New Thinking about School Competition. In “Politics, Markets, and America's Schools,” Brookings’s John Chubb and Terry Moe examine the growing dissatisfaction with the school system in America. They identify its maladies and propose a new system of public education constructed around competition among schools, parent-student choice, and agency within the system."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1994 || || || "1994. Another View on the Cold War’s End. Raymond Garthoff authors “The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War.” His research shows that the U.S. did not win the Cold War with President Reagan’s military buildup, but instead, “‘victory’ came when a new generation of Soviet leaders realized how badly their system at home and their policies abroad had failed.”"<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1994 || || || "A Metropolitan Agenda. In 1994, Anthony Downs at Brookings authors “New ''New Visions for Metropolitan America'',” a discussion of which discusses the problem of rapid expansion of cities and suburban areas. In 1998, Bruce Katz’s “Reviving Cities: Think Metropolitan,” examines problems caused by explosive urban sprawl and emphasizes the necessity of a federal metropolitan agenda. Katz later becomes founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1995 || || || Brookings launches its website, located at <code>www.brook.edu</code>.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1997 || || Recognition || Brookings ranks as the first-most influential and first in credibility among 27 think tanks considered in a survey of congressional staff and journalists.<ref name=standford>{{cite journal| url= http://www.ssireview.org/pdf/2005SP_feature_rich.pdf|title=War of Ideas: Why Mainstream and Liberal Foundations and the Think Tanks they Support are Losing in the War of Ideas in American Politics| first= Andrew| last= Rich| journal=Stanford Social Innovation Review|publisher=Stanford University|date=Spring 2006}}</ref>
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| 1998 || || || "1998. Crisis of the Internally Displaced. In “Masses Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen at Brookings publish ''Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement'',” Brookings’s Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen analyze which analyzes the causes and consequences of internal displacement. The late U.S. book is called “a landmark study” by diplomat {{w|Richard Holbrooke, a former ambassador to the United Nations, called the book “a landmark study}}.”"<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2001 || || || "As President Bill Clinton prepared to sign historic welfare reform legislation, Ron Haskins, a former Republican congressional staffer, and Isabel Sawhill, a former official in the Office of Management and Budget for President Clinton, teamed up at Brookings to study the nation’s policies on children and families. In 2001, a proposal by Sawhill and researcher Adam Thomas for a child tax credit became part of major tax legislation."<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
