Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, May 28th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Eric Patashnik entitled “The Demand-side for Policy Improvements: Investigating the Pressure for Good Government”. Click here for the background reading.
Patashnik is the Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown University, where he has been since 2016. Previous appointments included Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the University of Virigina (2011-2016), Professor of Politics at the University of Virigina (2009-2011) and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virigina (2002-2009).
Prior to those, he was at UCLA and Yale University. He holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley in Political Science, an MPP from the University of California Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and a BA from the University of Virigina in History and Economics. Patashnik’s last book was Countermobilization Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (University of Chicago, 2023). His previous book (with Alan S. Gerber and Conor Dowling), Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine (Princeton, 2017) won the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration and the Don K. Price Book Award from the American Political Science Association.
At RSF Patashnik is examining the federal government’s performance as a problem-solving institution. Drawing on theories of political failure and a historical review of problem-solving activities across domestic issues, including education, environment, and healthcare, Patashnik is writing a book about the contemporary policy state and how government’s capacity to frame and address important societal problems can be improved.