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

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. W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patashnik, Eric M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.