Eric M. Patashnik is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and professor of public policy and politics in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Professor Patashnik’s book Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008) won the Louis Brownlow Book Award. His other books and co-edited volumes include: Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Living Legislation: Durability, Change and the Politics of American Lawmaking, co-editor with Jeffrey Jenkins (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance, co-editor with Alan S. Gerber (Brookings Institution Press, 2006). His essays have appeared in journals such as Political Science Quarterly, Governance, Journal of Health Politics, and Policy & Law.

Professor Patashnik previously held faculty positions at Yale and UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.P.P. from University of California, Berkeley.

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