Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes are Enacted
Author: Eric Patashnik
Reforms at Risk examines what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Patashnik, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, shows political struggles do not end the moment major reforms are signed into law. Reforms at Risk provides a realistic portrait of the possibilities and limits of positive change in governance. ?Seemingly momentous policy reforms are often unceremoniously abandoned in subsequent policymaking,? writes Paul Quirk, of the University of British Columbia. ?Using a wide-ranging set of case studies? [Patashnik] shows that lasting reform is partly a matter of strategy and design.?
Author: Eric Patashnik
Reforms at Risk examines what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Patashnik, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, shows political struggles do not end the moment major reforms are signed into law. Reforms at Risk provides a realistic portrait of the possibilities and limits of positive change in governance. ?Seemingly momentous policy reforms are often unceremoniously abandoned in subsequent policymaking,? writes Paul Quirk, of the University of British Columbia. ?Using a wide-ranging set of case studies? [Patashnik] shows that lasting reform is partly a matter of strategy and design.?
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