Reforms at risk : what happens after major policy changes are enacted /

Patashnik, Eric M.

Reforms at risk : what happens after major policy changes are enacted / Eric M. Patashnik. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in American politics .

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

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.

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Political planning--United States.

JK468.P64 / P294r 2008

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