Patashnik is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and has previously held faculty positions at Yale University and UCLA.

Patashnik’s latest book is Living Legislation: Durability, Change and the Politics of American Lawmaking (co-editor with Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Chicago Press, 2012). He is also the author of Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration. His other books are Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (co-editor with Alan S. Gerber, Brookings Institution Press, 2006), and Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

His essays have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Governance, Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Social Service Review, and in many edited volumes. His current major research project, with Alan Gerber of Yale University, explores the politics of evidence-based medicine in the United States and is supported by grants from the Smith Richardson and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations.

Patashnik received both his MPP and PhD (political science) from the University of California at Berkeley.