Eric Patashnik
@EricPatashnik
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Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy and Professor in the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
Providence, RI
Joined April 2015
My new book Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age from @UChicagoPress is available for preorder.
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Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest.
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Documents reviewed by The Post detail a prospective National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
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In my book Reforms at Risk, I discussed 4 postenactment scenarios: entrenchment, reconfiguration, reversal, and erosion. Erosion best describes the new politics of the ACA. The backdoor way Republicans are rolling back Obamacare | CNN Politics
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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are no longer promising to repeal Obamacare, but that doesn’t mean they have given up efforts to take down the landmark health reform law.
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RT @NEJM: Perspective by Jonathan Oberlander, PhD (@OberlanderUNC): Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act….
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While the One Big Beautiful Bill repealed many of the IRA's climate provisions, some green subsidies survived, including investments in geothermal & batteries used to store electricity. @NKupzok here explains the patterns, offering lessons for policy sustainability.
Is the climate strategy behind the IRA dead after the GOP slashed its green subsidies?. In @ForeignAffairs, I argue: No. It remains the most promising path to building a political coalition that stands a chance of sustaining a green transition.
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A new article by David Mayhew and Ethan Yan on "memorable drives" to repeal congressional measures targeting the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition), Section 14b of the Taft–Hartley Act, and the Affordable Care Act.
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Intensity, Geography, and Time: Three Controversies Indexed by Major Repeal Drives
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RT @ProfLowande: NEW STUDY: Staff hiring over 1996-2024 shows the diploma divide is in the White House. Elite universities sent far more al….
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RT @EricPatashnik: I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @Watson_School colleague @MargaretWeir4 on the Trending Globa….
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I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @Watson_School colleague @MargaretWeir4 on the Trending Globally podcast, hosted by Dan Richards.
NEW Trending Globally #podcast: What does the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ mean for America? — Dan Richards talks with @EricPatashnik & Margaret Weir about Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” what it means for American society, the GOP, & the 2026 midterms.
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Here's a backlash case I wish had happened earlier so I could have included it in my book Countermobilization-- professional gamblers are angry that the One Big Beautiful Bill changes tax law so that betters who break even can still owe $ to the IRS.
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The law is creating backlash from the gambling industry and bettors who could owe taxes even if they break even.
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Thermostatic public opinion again! The pro higher ed backlash begins! @akoustov @johnmsides
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The public-polling firm Gallup first asked Americans whether they trust the sector a decade ago. This year, after years of decline, the sector finally gained back some ground.
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RT @akoustov: The new Gallup chart just dropped—showing the biggest back-and-forth reversal in US immigration opinion in recent history.….
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RT @nicholas_bagley: It's bonkers to me that courts *routinely* excuse as harmless completely bonkers trial court errors in criminal cases,….
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RT @nicholas_bagley: This is as good an example of mindless admin law as you'll find. To the argument that the error here was completely ha….
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RT @BobGreensteinDC: To be sure, as my paper explains, the safety net did NOT grow stronger for poor non-elderly or disabled adults who are….
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RT @LHSummers: My daughters, who practice medicine and social work in rural New Hampshire made me realize that a focus on macroeconomics, w….
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RT @Wimbledon: A sight we never want to see. Grigor Dimitrov is forced to retire while leading two sets to love. Everyone at #Wimbledon is….
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