Pietro S Nivola Editor & Author

Pietro S. Nivola is a vice president of the Brookings Institution, where he is the director of Governance Studies. Among his previous books are Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems (Brookings, 2002) and Agenda for the Nation , coedited with Henry J. Aaron and James M. Lindsay (Brookings, 2003). Jon A. Shields is a graduate student in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.