Eric Patashnik

ericpat@virginia.edu Phone: 434 924-3602

Patashnik is Associate Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the UVa Public Policy Program. 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. 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 has received research grants from the Smith Richardson, Earhart, and D&D foundations. He received his doctorate from U.C. Berkeley in 1996.

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