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Greg Berman is the Distinguished Fellow of Practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He also serves as coeditor of Vital City and writes a regular column about nonprofit leadership for City & State. Berman previously served as the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation. He is the author of four previous books, including Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure, with Aubrey Fox. Aubrey Fox is the Executive Director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, the City's main pretrial services agency working under contract with the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice. In this role, he oversees the major operations and future development of CJA, which carries the mission of reducing the use of pretrial detention. Previously, Fox has held a number of senior-level positions at the Center for Court Innovation, including launching the Center's U.K. office, the Centre for Justice Innovation, in London. He graduated with a master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, served as a VISTA Volunteer in San Antonio, Texas, was a Warren Weaver Fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation and a member of Coro's Leadership New York program.

Introduction: An Era of Radical Change?
Section One: A World of Constraints
Chapter One: Muddling Through
Chapter Two: The Practitioner Veto
Chapter Three: What the Public Wants
Section Two: Incrementalism in Action
Chapter Four: Social Security's Heroic Incrementalists
Chapter Five: How New York City Reduced Crime and Incarceration
Chapter Six: The Immigration System's Hidden Strengths
Section Three: Stumbling Toward Success
Chapter Seven: The Perils of Greatness
Chapter Eight: The Four Core Values of Incrementalism
Conclusion: The Endless Effort to Alleviate Injustices
Acknowledgments
References
Index