Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted

347 Pages·2008·2.82 MB·English

by  Patashnik

REFORMS AT RISK
PRINCETON STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS:
HISTORICAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVES
Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter, and Theda Skocpol, eds.
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REFORMS AT RISK:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MAJOR POLICY
CHANGES ARE ENACTED
Eric M. Patashnik
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Reforms at risk : what happens after major policy changes are enacted / Eric M. Patashnik.
p. cm. — (Princeton studies in American politics) Includes bibliographical references and
index.
ISBN 978-0-691-11998-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-691-13897-8 (pbk. : alk.
paper) 1. Political planning—United States. I. Title.
JK468.P64P38 2008
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: General-Interest Policymaking and the Politics of
Reform Sustainability 1
CHAPTER 2
Policy Reform as a Political Project 16
CHAPTER 3
Expert Ideas Meet Politics: Reforming the Tax Code 35
CHAPTER 4
Reforming the Agricultural Welfare State: The Mixed Case of
the Freedom to Farm Act 55
CHAPTER 5
Reforming the American Welfare State: ERISA and the Medicare
Catastrophic Coverage Act 72
CHAPTER 6
Uncle Sam Goes Shopping: Reinventing Government
Procurement 91
CHAPTER 7