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Congress and Policy Making in the 21st Century Paperback – Illustrated, Feb. 15 2016
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- ISBN-101107565553
- ISBN-13978-1107565555
- EditionIllustrated
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateFeb. 15 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
- Print length350 pages
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Kenneth A. Shepsle, Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University
"How well does Congress address today's enormous social, economic, and fiscal challenges? Do our classic theories of Congressional behavior and operations still hold up? Patashnik and Jenkins brilliantly assemble the leading Congressional and Public Policy scholars for a wonderfully insightful, coherent, and relevant collection of analyses. I learned so much, and I can’t wait to share with my students the fresh inquiries and topical case studies. A new classic is born."
Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Most scholarship on Congress focuses on internal institutions and procedures, rather than on policy making. This volume weighs in to right that imbalance … With so much variation across issues, the book offers a more complete portrait that goes beyond easy cynicism or blanket denunciations of congressional "dysfunction"."
Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland
"To explain when [Congress] does - or doesn't - work, we need new theories and explanations, ones that situate Congress within the current political context. This [volume] … demonstrat[es] that in order to understand the twenty-first-century Congress and its role in the policy process, we need to first recognize that it operates in a changed political landscape, one featuring strong presidents, polarized parties, and declining public trust."
Charles Shipan, University of Michigan
"… these essays transcend assessments of institutional performance based on the number of laws passed and instead evaluate the extent to which legislators produce policies that address major domestic priorities. An analytically astute and deeply sobering account of why a nation that excels in so many other respects today struggles to govern itself."
Suzanne Mettler, Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University
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About the Author
Eric M. Patashnik is Professor of Public Policy and Politics and Director of the Center for Health Policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Patashnik is the author of several books including Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge, 2000) and Reforms at Risk: What Happens after Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (2008), which won the Louis Brownlow Book Award for outstanding contribution to the literature on public administration.
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (Feb. 15 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 350 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1107565553
- ISBN-13 : 978-1107565555
- Item weight : 490 g
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
About the authors
Eric M. Patashnik is Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
Patashnik is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Patashnik previously held faculty positions at University of Virginia, UCLA and Yale University.
Patashnik is the author and editor of several books including Unhealthy Politics: the Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (with Alan S. Gerber and Conor M. Dowling, Princeton University Press, 2017), which won both the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the Don K. Price Award of the American Political Science Association, and Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Patashnik received both his MPP and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
I am Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law; Judith & John Bedrosian Chair of Governance and the Public Enterprise; Director of the Bedrosian Center; and Director of the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.
American political history is a favorite topic of mine and plays an important role in my research. Much of my work focuses on the origins and development of American political institutions, notably congressional and partisan institutions.
I have been Editor in Chief of The Journal of Politics since January 2015. I am founding editor of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (JPIPE), which began in 2020.
I am currently author or editor of seven books, including Fighting for the Speakership (Princeton University Press) with Charles Stewart III, and Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 (Cambridge University Press) with Boris Heersink.
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