Reforms at risk : what happens after major policy changes are enacted / Eric M. Patashnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patashnik, Eric M.

Series:

Princeton studies in American politics.

Princeton studies in American politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--United States.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reforms at Risk is 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 that the reforms that stick destroy an existing policy subsystem and reconfigure the political dynamic. Patashnik demonstrates that sustainable reforms create positive policy feedbacks, transform institutions, and often unleash the ''creative destructiveness'' of market forces. 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. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of U.S. politics and public policy, offering practical lessons for anyone who wants to ensure that hard-fought reform victories survive.

Contents:

Introduction : general-interest policymaking and the politics of reform sustainability

Policy reform as a political project

Expert ideas meet politics : reforming the tax code

Freedom 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-228) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612157370

9781282157378

128215737X

9781400828852

1400828856

OCLC:

432996500