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

by Eric M. Patashnik

Book Overview

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. Why do certain highly praised policy reforms endure while others are quietly reversed or eroded away?

Patashnik peers into some of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138974
• ISBN13: 9780691138978
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"