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Living Legislation

Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

Edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik

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Edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik

368 pages | 16 line drawings, 16 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Cloth $90.00 ISBN: 9780226396446 Published April 2012
Paper $29.00 ISBN: 9780226396453 Published April 2012
E-book $7.00 to $29.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226396460 Published March 2012

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 the political legacy of a law becomes clear.
 
Living Legislation provides fresh insights into contemporary American politics and public policy. Of particular interest to the contributors to this volume is the question of why some laws stand the test of time while others are eliminated, replaced, or significantly amended. Among the topics the essays discuss are how laws emerge from—and effect change within—coalition structures, the effectiveness of laws at mediating partisan conflicts, and the ways in which laws interact with broader shifts in the political environment. As an essential addition to the study of politics, Living Legislation enhances understanding of democracy, governance, and power.

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.”
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"This collection of essays pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US."
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