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

"A fascinating account of why some general-interest policy reforms stick and others fall apart . . . This is political science at its best." —Julian Zelizer, Princeton University

Winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration

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 p...