This project brought together senior practitioners from a wide variety of institutions and disciplines (including U.S., allied, coalition, and United Nations military leaders, U.S. and European diplom
A key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy reduces terrorism; however, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This study explores th
Despite recent progress in reading achievement among primary-grade children, many are not moving beyond basic decoding to fluency and comprehension as they go on to higher grades. RAND evaluated the i
The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants.
Air liaison officers (ALOs) play an important interservice role as U.S. Air Force officers collocated with U.S. Army units. This investigation of the feasibility of an ALO career field explores an arr
This professional memoir describes RAND1s contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, when digital computers succeeded slide rules
Between 2002 and 2004, the number of veterans claiming Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX), which provides income assistance to unemployed veterans as they search for work, increased
Raw statistics for encounters between New York City police officers and pedestrians suggest large racial disparities. 89 percent of 2006 stops involved nonwhites. The New York City Police Department
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has been operating below its authorized size in recent years. To bridge its personnel gap, the department needs to maximize its recruiting while minimizing offic
American geopolitical interests and the potential threats to those interests are both on the rise in East Africa. The author places the spread of militant Islamism and the development of radical Islam
Kefaya, also known as the Egyptian Movement for Change, was an indigenous movement for political reform organized in late 2004 in opposition to the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This st
In response to the 2006 QDR, DoD created a human capital strategy (HCS) that could provide more flexibility in quickly accessing the right skills at the right place. It called for three initiatives: c
To inform the U.S. Army1s decisionmaking process surrounding commonality in military equipment, RAND was asked to assess the advantages and disadvantages of commonality and how to best manage their tr
Discusses the development and implementation of child-care quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) in Oklahoma, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, offering recommendations for QR
"Over the years, there have been numerous efforts to locate the roots of the Islamic Republic's intentions and motivations in the distinctiveness of its political culture and history. A rich and ancie
This study tracks the establishment of a single hospital-based integrative medicine center. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no
The Department of Veterans Affairs relies on the Enrollee Health Care Projection Model (EHCPM) to project veteran enrollment, enrolled veterans1 use of health care services, and the cost of providing
The Air Force faces a challenging environment as it devises an approach to managing security cooperation with partner countries. The important mission of countering terrorist and insurgent groups abro
A new metric for measuring expeditionary medical support (EMEDS) and a construct for applying it across three Air Force medical missions: deployed military support, humanitarian relief, and defense su
State arts agencies - key players within the U.S. system of public support for the arts - face growing economic, political, and demographic challenges to the roles and missions they adopted when foun
