# Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age
**Date de l'événement :** 12/03/2024
* Publié le 12/03/2024

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## Description
**Eric M. Patashnik** presented an overview of his new book, _Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (University of Chicago Press, 2023)_. The most successful policies not only solve problems. They also build supportive political coalitions. Yet, sometimes, policies trigger backlash and mobilize opposition forces. Although backlash is not a new phenomenon, today’s political landscape is distinguished by the frequency and pervasiveness of backlash in nearly every area of US policy-making, from abortion rights to the Affordable Care Act.  
  
The book presents a policy-centered theory of backlash that illuminates how policies stimulate backlashes by imposing losses, overreaching, or challenging existing arrangements to which people are strongly attached. Drawing on a database of more than 2000 New York Times articles about backlash episodes in the US since the 1960s as well as detailed case studies of issues from immigration and trade to healthcare and gun control, Patashnik shows that backlash politics is fueled by partisan polarization, cultural shifts, and negative policy feedback from activist government itself. His analysis also offers crucial insights to help identify and navigate backlash risks.  
  
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## Intervenant(s)
Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz

## Intervenant(s) secondaires
Emiliano Grossman, Takuya Onoda

### Date de publication de l'épisode
12/03/2024

### Type(s) de ressource
`#Audio` 

### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Politiques publiques` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Amérique du Nord` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

### Famille(s) de contenu
`#Recherche` 

**Type(s) d'accès :** `#Accès libre` 

### Hébergeur(s)
`#SoundCloud` 

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