Combining an insider's perspective with actual case studies, the volume examines the policymaking behind such programs as, No Child Left Behind, tax cuts, Social Security privatization, Medicare prescription drug reform, education and immigration reform, environmental policy, judicial politics, national securityCovering all major areas of policymaking, Building Coalitions, Making Policy gives instructors in political science, public administration and policy, American government, and American presidential studies plenty of provocative examples for classroom debate.