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

Main Author: Patashnik, Eric M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of 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.