![]() ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10Ĭhapter 1 Introduction: General-Interest Policymaking and the Politics of Reform SustainabilityĬhapter 2 Policy Reform as a Political ProjectĬhapter 3 Expert Ideas Meet Politics: Reforming the Tax CodeĬhapter 4 Reforming the Agricultural Welfare State: The Mixed Case of the Freedom to Farm ActĬhapter 5 Reforming the American Welfare State: ERISA and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage ActĬhapter 6 Uncle Sam Goes Shopping: Reinventing Government ProcurementĬhapter 7 Unshackling an Unstable Industry: Airline DeregulationĬhapter 8 Making Pollution Control Pay: Emissions Trading for Acid RainĬhapter 9 Conclusions: The Patterns and Paradoxes of Policy ReformįIGURES 2-1 3-1 3-2 3-3 3-4 4-1 4-2 4-3 4-4 7-1 7-2 8-1 8-2 8-3 JK468.P64P38 2008 320.60973-dc22 2008005148 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Goudy Printed on acid-free paper. (Princeton studies in American politics) Includes bibliographical references and index. Reforms at risk : what happens after major policy changes are enacted / Eric M. Princeton university press princeton and oxfordĬopyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Patashnik, Eric M. REFORMS AT RISK what happens A F T E R major policy changes are enacted Eric M. Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter, and Theda Skocpol, eds.Ī list of titles in this series appears at the back of the book PRINCETON STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS: HISTORICAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES politics and public policy, offering practical lessons for anyone who wants to ensure that hard-fought reform victories survive. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of U.S. Reforms at Risk debunks the argument that reforms inevitably fail because Congress is prey to special interests, and the book provides a more realistic portrait of the possibilities and limits of positive change in American government. Patashnik demonstrates that sustainable reforms create positive policy feedbacks, transform institutions, and often unleash the "creative destructiveness" of market forces. He argues that the reforms that stick destroy an existing policy subsystem and reconfigure the political dynamic. ![]() 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. 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. Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. ![]()
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