Living Legislation
Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
- Contents
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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
“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.”
Law and Legal Studies: Legal History
Political Science: American Government and Politics | Public Policy
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