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More a Distinction of Words than Things : The Evolution of Separated Powers in the American States
Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act
There is a large body of literature devoted to how “policies create politics” and how feedback effects from existing policy legacies shape potential reforms in a particular area. Although much of this literature focuses on self‐reinforcing feedback effects that increase support for existing policies over time, Kent Weaver and his colleagues have recently drawn our attention to self‐undermining effects that can gradually weaken support for such policies. The following contribution explores both self‐reinforcing and self‐undermining policy feedback in relationship to the Affordable Care Act, the most important health‐care reform enacted in the United States since the mid‐1960s. More specifically, the paper draws on the concept of policy feedback to reflect on the political fate of the ACA since its adoption in 2010. We argue that, due in part to its sheer complexity and fragmentation, the ACA generates both self‐reinforcing and self‐undermining feedback effects that, depending of the aspect of the legislation at hand, can either facilitate or impede conservative retrenchment and restructuring. Simultaneously, through a discussion of partisan effects that shape Republican behavior in Congress, we acknowledge the limits of policy feedback in the explanation of policy stability and change
German Employers and the Origins of Unemployment Insurance: Skills Interest or Strategic Accommodation?
In situ removal of iron from ground water: Fe(II) oxygenation, and precipitation products in a calcareous aquifer
“The Only Good Thing Was the G.I. Bill”: Effects of the Education and Training Provisions on African-American Veterans' Political Participation
Constructing Motherhood, Home, and Work: New Perspectives on Gender in American Policy Development - Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Pp. 365. 17.95 pb. - Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). Pp. 191. $27.50.
American Political Development from Citizens' Perspective: Tracking Federal Government's Presence in Individual Lives over Time
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