In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening--and
arguably impotent--pitch, how does the real work of politics get
done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives
readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers
from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers
and effect real and lasting policy changes.
The editors take a comparative approach, offering a thorough
overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W. Bush
administrations, with further discussion of President Obama's
successful and failed attempts to build coalitions and get past no.
The contributors, a national network of prominent political
scientists, reveal the sausage-making of politics and policy.
Readers can almost see the political players in the proverbial
smoke-filled room, shirtsleeves rolled up and BlackBerrys in hand,
developing the strategies and hammering out the compromises
designed to hold the party base while winning over independent
voters. 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
security
Covering 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.
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