This volume of The ANNALS considers the power of United States policy reform and its potential to build self-reinforcing political consequences.

IntroductionPolicy Feedback in an Age of Polarization - Jacob S. Hacker and Paul PiersonGeneral LessonsMaking What Government Does Apparent to Citizens: Policy Feedback Effects, Their Limitations, and How They Might Be Facilitated - Suzanne MettlerBacklash Prevention: Taming Countervailing Forces in an Era of Political Polarization - Eric PatashnikAsymmetric Partisan Polarization, Labor Policy and Cross-State Political Power-Building - Alexander Hertel-FernandezPrescriptions: Climate ChangeA Long View on US Climate Policy: Choosing Policies that Grow Support for Decarbonization - Jonas MecklingBuilding Climate Policy in the States - Samuel TrachtmanPrescriptions: Health CareMedicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare - Jamila MichenerMedicare Expansion as a Path as well as a Destination: Achieving Universal Insurance through a New Politics of Medicare - Jacob S. HackerPrescriptions: Jobs, Wages, and Regional DevelopmentThe Political Benefits and Potential Policy Feedbacks of Addressing Regional Economic Divergence as a National Political Issue - Robert ManducaRebuilding Labor Power in the Post-Industrial United States - Andrew SchrankPrescriptions: Criminal JusticeTransforming Police Surveillance of Kids to the Civic Incorporation of Youth - Vesla Weaver and Amanda GellerUnderstanding Law Enforcement Attitudes to Enable Correctional Reform - Amy Lerman and Jessie Harney