Biography
Eric M. Patashnik is Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Patashnik previously held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, UCLA, and Yale University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution during 1995-96, served as president of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association during 2017-18, was the editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law from 2016 to 2019, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in spring 2025. From 2021 to 2024, he served as chair of Brown’s Political Science Department.
Patashnik’s research concerns the politics of American national policymaking. He is the author of several books, including Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (University of Chicago Press, 2023), A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis, 7th Edition (with Eugene Bardach, CQ Press, 2023), Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (with Alan Gerber and Conor Dowling, Princeton University Press, 2017), Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His articles have been published in leading journals including Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Health Affairs, Policy Studies Journal, Policy Sciences, Governance, and Political Science Quarterly.