Reforms at Risk What Happens after Major Policy Changes Are Enacted

Name: Reforms at Risk What Happens after Major Policy Changes Are Enacted
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ISBN: 9780691138978

ISBN-10: 0691138974

ISBN-13: 9780691138978

Edition: 2009

Authors: Eric M. Patashnik

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Reforms at Riskis the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. Why do certain highly praised policy reforms endure while others are quietly reversed or eroded away? Patashnik peers into some of the most critical arenas of domestic-policy reform--including taxes, agricultural subsidies, airline deregulation, emissions trading, welfare state reform, and reform of government procurement--to identify the factors that enable reform measures to survive. He argues…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Eric M. Patashnik is professor of public policy and politics and associate dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of several books, including Reforms at Risk.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments



Introduction: General-Interest Policymaking and the Politics of Reform Sustainability



Policy Reform as a Political Project



Expert Ideas Meet Politics: Reforming the Tax Code



Reforming the Agricultural Welfare State: The Mixed Case of the Freedom to Farm Act



Reforming the American Welfare State: ERISA and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act



Uncle Sam Goes Shopping: Reinventing Government Procurement



Unshackling an Unstable Industry: Airline Deregulation



Making Pollution Control Pay: Emissions Trading for Acid Rain



Conclusions: The Patterns and Paradoxes of Policy Reform


Notes


Index