Living Legislation
Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
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Table of Contents
Contents
Part One
Overview
Overview
Chapter 1
Living Legislation and American Politics
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik
Chapter 2
Making the Modern American Legislative State
William J. Novak
Part Two
Studying Living Legislation: Coalitions, Durability, and Change
Chapter 3
Durability and Change in the President’s Legislative Policy Agenda, 1799–2002
Jeffrey E. Cohen and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
Chapter 4
Coalition Structure and Legislative Innovation in American National Government
Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins
Chapter 5
The Lives and Deaths of Federal Programs, 1971–2003
Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell
Chapter 6
Beyond Legislative Productivity: Enactment Conditions, Subsequent Conditions, and the Shape and Life of the Law
Forrest Maltzman and Charles R. Shipan
Chapter 7
How Unpopular Policies Become Popular after Adoption
Amihai Glazer
Chapter 8
Why Some Reforms Last and Others Collapse: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 versus Airline Deregulation
Eric M. Patashnik
Chapter 9
Policy Durability and Agency Design
David E. Lewis
Chapter 10
Judicial Delimitation in the New Deal Era
Stuart Chinn
Chapter 11
The Significance of Policy Failures in Political Development: The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and the Growth of the Carceral State
Vesla M. Weaver
Part Three
Reflections
Chapter 12
Lawmaking as a Cognitive Enterprise
David R. Mayhew
Chapter 13
The Politics of the Policymaking State
Sidney M. Milkis
Notes
Contributors
Index
Review Quotes
Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University
“Jenkins and Patashnik have brought together a first-rate collection of scholars to address the too-often-neglected question of what happens to American public policies after the passage of legislation. The result is a compelling work that raises many deeper questions about legislation as a developmental force in American politics. Living Legislation will make an extremely important contribution to the study of American politics and public policy.”
Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
“Living Legislation offers an important new perspective on policy making in the United States. In bringing together leading scholars from a variety of research traditions, this agenda-setting book shifts our attention from the enactment of landmark bills towards the broader question of what leads some legislative achievements to endure while others are reversed or fade away.”
Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland
“The questions addressed by this diverse and formidable group of scholars are of such obvious importance that it is amazing so little work has been done on them until recently. Readers will come away impressed both with the progress made in understanding what happens to laws and policies after they are enacted as well as the pressing need for future work on the topic. Living Legislation is sure to be a high-impact volume.”
Choice
"This collection of essays pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US."
Perspectives on Politics
“In this illuminating volume, Jenkins and Patashnik bring together an all-star cast of American politics scholars to analyze the origins and development of legislation over time. . . . The essays make a strong case for looking ‘beyond legislative productivity’ to the broader politics of agenda-setting and programmatic evolution that bracket the formal lawmaking process. . . . [This is] an admirable volume that extends our understanding of how public policies emerge and evolve. . . . The chapters are uniformly excellent, showcasing a diverse array of ingenious approaches to answering important questions about the policy process. Both quantitative and qualitative scholars will find much to ponder and debate within its pages.”
Journal of Legislative Studies
“Jenkins and Patashnik have assembled an ambitious volume that seeks to take American legislative scholarship beyond its typical focus only on the making of laws to consider what happens to laws over the course of their ‘lives’. . . . An impressive array of scholars from law, economics, public policy, and especially political science wrestle with various aspects of this broad topic. . . . The timely focus on understudied and underappreciated facets of legislation make for an interesting, insightful read.”
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