Part One: Overview
Living legislation and American politics / Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik
Making the modern American legislative state / William J. Novak
Part Two: Studying living legislation: coalitions, durability, and change
Durability and change in the president's legislative policy agenda, 1799-2002 / Jeffrey E. Cohen and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
Coalition structure and legislative innovation in American national government / Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins
The lives and deaths of federal programs, 1971-2003 / Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell
Beyond legislative productivity: enactment conditions, subsequent conditions, and the shape and life of the law / Forrest Maltzman and Charles R. Shipan
How unpopular policies become popular after adoption / Amihai Glazer
Why some reforms last and others collapse: the Tax Reform Act of 1986 versus airline deregulation / Eric M. Patashnik
Policy durability and agency design / David E. Lewis
Judicial delimitation in the New Deal era / Stuart Chinn
The significance of policy failures in political development : the law enforcement assistance administration and the growth of the carceral state / Vesla M. Weaver
Part Three: Reflections
Lawmaking as a cognitive enterprise / David R. Mayhew
The politics of the policymaking state / Sidney M. Milkis.
Living legislation : durability, change, and the politics of American lawmaking. ISBN 9780226396453. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.