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

List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Introduction: General-Interest Policymaking and the Politics of Reform Sustainability 1 Chapter 2: Policy Reform as a Political Project 16 Chapter 3: Expert Ideas Meet Politics: Reforming the Tax Code 35 Chapter 4: Reforming the Agricultural Welfare State: The Mixed Case of the Freedom to Farm Act 55 Chapter 5: Reforming the American Welfare State: ERISA and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act 72 Chapter 6: Uncle Sam Goes Shopping: Reinventing Government Procurement 91 Chapter 7: Unshackling an Unstable Industry: Airline Deregulation 110 Chapter 8: Making Pollution Control Pay: Emissions Trading for Acid Rain 136 Chapter 9: Conclusions: The Patterns and Paradoxes of Policy Reform 155 Notes 181 Index 229