Eric Patashnik

ericpat@virginia.edu Phone: 434 924-0903

Patashnik is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Associate Dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Patashnik's latest book is Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008). His two other books are Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (co-editor with Alan S. Gerber, Brookings Institution Press, 2006) and Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His essays have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Governance, P.S., Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Social Service Review, and in many edited volumes. His current major research project, with Professor Alan S. Gerber of Yale University, explores the politics of evidence-based medicine and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and Smith Richardson foundations..  Patashnik has been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and previously held faculty positions in the UCLA School of Public Affairs and the Yale Department of Political Science.  He received his doctorate from Berkeley in 1996.

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