Eric M. Patashnik

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Eric M. Patashnik is an American political scientist, author, professor of public policy and political science at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Department of Political Science at Brown University. [1]

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Early life and education

Patashnik graduated with a B.A. in history and economics from University of Virginia in 1987 and obtained an MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and a Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Berkeley in 1996.

Career

Patashnik served as a legislative analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Elections during 1989–91. He was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1995–96. He held faculty positions at Yale University from 1996 to 2000, at UCLA from 2000 to 2002, and at the University of Virginia from 2002 to 2016. During his time at University of Virginia, he served as associate dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Patashnik has published articles for various newspapers and popular outlets. In 2009 he discussed healthcare policy on C-Span. In 1999 he wrote about the fiscalization of public policy debate. An opinion piece in The New York Times described him as a leading scholar of why policies succeed or fail. [2]

Patashnik is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution [3] and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. [4] He served as editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law from 2016 to 2019. He was president of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association during 2017–18.

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  8. ↑ "Don K. Price Award". American Political Science Association.
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  11. ↑ "Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine". Foreign Affair. 5 April 2019.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  12. ↑ Sun, Bob Z. (1 July 2018). "Review of Eric M. Patashnik, Alan S. Gerber, Conor M. Dowling: Unhealthy Politics". Monash Bioethics Review. 35 (1): 80–82. doi:10.1007/s40592-017-0074-6. ISSN   1836-6716. S2CID   32087659.
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