This was such a nice surprise. @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social
01.10.2025 14:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ericpatashnik.bsky.social
Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University. https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/eric-patashnik
This was such a nice surprise. @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social
01.10.2025 14:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Many thanks to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social for speaking today
@taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. So many insights into using cutting-edge research to improve government performance!
Looking forward to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social's Politics & Policy talk to @brown.edu students next Monday, hosted by @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
events.brown.edu/taubman/even...
This book is really important!
25.09.2025 22:33 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!
Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
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I am excited to announce that @nytimes.com columnist @jamellebouie.net will give the Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social on Oct 8 on the vital question, "What's the Matter with American Democracy?"
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Glad the book continues to a be a useful resource for faculty and students. Gene & I welcome suggestions for improvements we can make in the next edition, especially relating to the challenges of policy analysis in an era of AI and whatever we wish to call the current political moment. Email me.
22.09.2025 12:44 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Looking forward to the panel on 9-29 celebrating the publication of "House of Diggs" by my @brownupolisci.bsky.social colleague Marion Orr. The book provides the first biography of Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr., a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus.
www.eventbrite.com/e/house-of-d...
The launch of the Watson School also brought John Friedman as inaugural dean, with new leaders for three centers: @pheller.bsky.social at Saxena Center, @ericpatashnik.bsky.social at @taubmancenter.bsky.social, and @ievajusionyte.bsky.social at CHRHS.
Learn more:
I am honored to have been appointed director of @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
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π¨ Job! π¨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
27.08.2025 14:34 β π 765 π 294 π¬ 11 π 24NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
On the #Decline of #Elite-#Educated #Republicans in #Congress
By Craig Volden, Jonathan Wai & Alan E. Wiseman
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The 1994 ambient/ techno album entitled -- wait for it -- "PATASHNIK" by the Norwegian electronic musician and composer Biosphere is not bad background sound for working on a syllabus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-M...
26.08.2025 14:34 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The One Big Beautiful Bill is a big step back for US health policy. My take in @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A new article by David Mayhew and Ethan Yan on "memorable drives" to repeal congressional measures targeting Prohibition, the TaftβHartley Act, and the ACA. "A congressional enactment can be just a first draft."
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And Medicare: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...
30.07.2025 13:54 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1@jhppl.bsky.social has published birthday cards in the form of special issues celebrating the 60th anniversary of Medicaidβs enactment: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...
30.07.2025 13:53 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Happy 60th birthday to Medicare and Medicaid! Hang in there, I hear 60 is the new 40
30.07.2025 13:48 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Tons of my colleagues at @americanprogress.bsky.social undertook the Herculean task of creating a timeline for when various parts of the "big beautiful bill" begin and when various temporary provisions end. You can read it here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
29.07.2025 17:07 β π 158 π 91 π¬ 8 π 3NEW Trending Globally #podcast: What does the βOne Big Beautiful Billβ mean for America? β Dan Richards talks with @ericpatashnik.bsky.social & Margaret Weir about Trumpβs βOne Big Beautiful Bill Act,β what it means for American society, the GOP, & the 2026 midterms.
25.07.2025 14:10 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0New in JHPPL: special issue marking Medicareβs 60th anniversary.
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...
I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social colleague Margaret Weir
on the Trending Globally #podcast, hosted by Dan Richards.
player.captivate.fm/episode/05f3...
I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social colleague Margaret Weir
on the Trending Globally #podcast, hosted by Dan Richards.
player.captivate.fm/episode/05f3...
Wow!
11.07.2025 22:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations! The health policy community is so fortunate to have you in this leadership role.
08.07.2025 13:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And @starrprospect.bsky.social, arguing that after defeats, chastened health reformers have "typically adopted rebound strategies that accommodate some sources of opposition, incorporate elements of counterreforms, and reflect intervening institutional change. " N/N
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@oberlanderunc.bsky.social and me on how conservatives never fully accepted the legitimacy of the ACA, contrasting the partisan battle over the ACA's implementation with the post-enactment politics of Social Security and Medicare. 4/N
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@jacobhacker.bsky.social and Paul Pierson on the GOP's near miss of ACA repeal in 2017, arguing that "the hurdles facing retrenchmentβin particular, the sway of national public opinionβhave not simply diminished; they have changed...." 3/N
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Andrea Campbell on Medicaid, arguing that despite its growth and reach into the middle class, Medicaid's "welfare medicine image is a constant undercurrent" and "opinion about the program continues to be divided" by party ID and racial sentiment. 2/N
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