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.

Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University. His latest book is Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform. Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science at the City College of New York (CUNY) and author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics. Martin M. Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Law and Politics in the Supreme Court.