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| 1986 || || Research || 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"/>
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| 1987 || || Research center || "In 1987, the The Brookings Institution formed forms the Center for Economic Progress and Employment which focused"focuses on productivity growth, poverty, and related issues.<ref>{{cite book |title=Rural Development Perspectives: RDP |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=_1QwU2PD0CkC&pg=RA1-PA51&lpg=RA1-PA51&dq=%22In+1987+the+Brookings+Institution+%22&source=bl&ots=N91vqUhmN-&sig=ACfU3U14puEQcrrYKtVWkBvZ8f3_ont1bg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW1-D1uvvlAhXJHrkGHW0_CGcQ6AEwAXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22In%201987%20the%20Brookings%20Institution%20%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1989 || || Research || At the suggestion of Senator Joseph Biden, the Brookings Institution convenes a task force to study delay and cost in federal civil litigation. The task force recommends a series of case-management strategies designed to streamline the process and to attack discovery abuse. Biden would incorporate these case-managementre commendations into the legislation introduced as the Civil Justice ReformAct of 1990.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robel |first1=Lauren K. |title=Fractured Procedure: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 |url=https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1558&context=facpub |website=repository.law.indiana.edu |accessdate=21 November 2019}}</ref>
| 1992 || || Publication || {{w|Norman Ornstein}} from {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} and {{w|Thomas E. Mann}} at Brookings publish reports from the Renewing Congress Project, which focuses on ways to improve congressional debate and action on legislation, enhance relationships between parties, and fix the campaign finance system. Their work makes a significant contribution to the debate about congressional reform.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1993 || || Publication || "In 1993, the The Brookings Institution published publishes a landmark study by three professors from {{w|Tufts University. They examined }}, which examines five cities that characterized characterize the most impressive commitment to the idea ofparticipatory of participatory democracy through the development of a citywide network of neighborhood associations that brought government closer to the people -- St. : {{w|Saint Paul, Minnesota}}, {{w|Portland}}, {{w|Birmingham, Alabama}}, {{w|Dayton}}, and {{w|San Antonio, Texas}}."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Greg |title=The Rebirth of Urban Democracy |url=http://ens.lacity.org/done/histreport/donehistreport101631480_08012005.pdf |website=ens.lacity.org |accessdate=21 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1994 || || Publication || Brookings Senior Fellow {{w|Raymond L. Garthoff}} authors ''The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War'', which shows that the United States 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"/>
| 2004 (July 6) || || Renaming || The Brookings Institution announces that the former Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (founded in 1966) would become the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brookings Institution Launches Metropolitan Policy Program |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news-releases/brookings-institution-launches-metropolitan-policy-program/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref><ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2006 || || International expansion || Brookings establishes in {{w|Beijing}} the Brookings-Tsinghua Center (BTC) for Public Policy as a partnership between the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and {{w|Tsinghua University}}'s {{w|School of Public Policy and Management}} in [[Beijing]]. The Center seeks to produce research in areas of fundamental importance for China's development and for US-China relations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy|url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/brookings-tsinghua/about|publisher=Brookings Institution| website= Brookings.edu|accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref> The BTC is directed by Qi Ye.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brookings-Tsinghua Center|url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/brookings-tsinghua|publisher=Brookings Institution| website= Brookings.edu|accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2006 || || Program launch || Brookings' Global Economy and Development program is founded. The program aims "to shape the policy debate on how to improve global economic cooperation and fight global poverty and sources of social stress."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT GLOBAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-global-economy-and-development/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref>
