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| 1980s || Brookings is exposed to increasingly competitive and ideologically charged intellectual environment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/polibig/eastidea.htm |title=Ideas Move Nations |last=Easterbrook |first=Gregg |date=1986-01-01 |work= {{w|The Atlantic}} |access-date=2 October 2019 }}</ref> The need to reduce the federal budget [[w:Government budget deficit|deficit]] becomes a major research theme in the 1980s, as well as investigating problems with national security and government inefficiency. The Center for Public Policy Education is established to develop workshop conferences and public forums to broaden the audience for research programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/lib/agendas.htm|title=Brookings History: Setting New Agendas| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070712105446/http://www.brookings.edu/lib/agendas.htm|archivedate=July 12, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.federalreservehistory.org/People/DetailView/179|title=Bruce K. MacLaury | website= federalreservehistory.org}}</ref>
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| 1990s || "In The {{w|Federal government of the 1990s, the federal government devolved United States}} devolves many of its social programs back to cities and states, and Brookings shaped shapes a new generation of urban policies to help build strong neighborhoods, cities and metropolitan regions."<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2010s || The {{w|University of Pennsylvania}}'s ''Global Go To Think Tank Index Report'' names Brookings "Think Tank of the Year" and "Top Think Tank in the World" every year since 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=TTCSP GLOBAL GO TO THINK TANK INDEX REPORTS|website=UPenn.edu|publisher={{w|University of Pennsylvania}}|date=2017-01-31| url= https://repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/|accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 1980 || || Publication || {{w|Norman Ornstein}} from {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} and {{w|Thomas E. Mann}} at Brookings jointly publish ''Vital Statistics on Congress'', detailing the election and composition of the {{w|United States Congress}} 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 would be published entirely online in 2013.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1986 || || || Research by Brookings Senior Fellow {{w|Joseph A. Pechman}} leads to the {{w|Tax Reform Act of 1986}}, a major bill that would have a profound impact on the {{w|economy of the United States}}.<ref name="brookings.edu"/> The act is designed to simplify the tax code, broaden the tax base, and eliminate many tax shelters and preferences.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tax Reform Act of 1986 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tax-Reform-Act |website=britannica.com |accessdate=20 November 2019}}</ref> Pechman’s ''Federal Tax Policy'' is essential to those reforms.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
