Living legislation : durability, change, and the politics of American lawmaking /
Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when th...
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The University of Chicago Press,
[2012], ©2012
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Overview
- Living legislation and American politics / Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik
- Making the modern American legislative state / William J. Novak
- Part Two. Studying living legislation: coalitions, durability, and change
- Durability and change in the president's legislative policy agenda, 1799-2002 / Jeffrey E. Cohen and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
- Coalition structure and legislative innovation in American national government / Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins
- The lives and deaths of federal programs, 1971-2003 / Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell
- Beyond legislative productivity: enactment conditions, subsequent conditions, and the shape and life of the law / Forrest Maltzman and Charles R. Shipan
- How unpopular policies become popular after adoption / Amihai Glazer
- Why some reforms last and others collapse: the Tax Reform Act of 1986 versus airline deregulation / Eric M. Patashnik
- Policy durability and agency design / David E. Lewis
- Judicial delimitation in the New Deal era / Stuart Chinn
- 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
- Lawmaking as a cognitive enterprise / David R. Mayhew
- The politics of the policymaking state / Sidney M. Milkis