Part One
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
Contributors
Index