Anthony Downs [1930–] is a Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution, where he has been since 1977. His publications include An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957), Inside Bureaucracy (1967), Who Are the Urban Poor? (1968), Racism in America (1970), Urban Problems and Prospects (1972), Opening Up the Suburbs: An Urban Strategy for America (1973), Neighborhoods and Urban Development (1981), New Visions for Metropolitan America (1994), Political Theory and Public Choice: The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs, Volume One (1998), and Urban Affairs and Urban Policy: The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs, Volume Two (1998).