<strong Eugene Bardach</strong has been teaching graduate-level policy analysis workshop classes since 1973 at the Goldman School of Public Policy,<br/ University of California, Berkeley, in which time he has coached some 500 projects. He is a broadly based political scientist with wide-ranging<br/ teaching and research interests. His focus is primarily on policy implementation and public management, and most recently on problems of<br/ facilitating better interorganizational collaboration in service delivery (e.g., in human services, environmental enforcement, fire prevention,<br/ and habitat preservation). He also maintains an interest in problems… of homeland defense regulatory program design and execution, particularly<br/ in areas of health, safety, consumer protection, and equal opportunity. Bardach has developed novel teaching methods and materials at Berkeley,<br/ has directed and taught in residentially based training programs for higher-level public managers, and has worked for the Office of Policy<br/ Analysis at the US Department of Interior. He is the recipient of the 1998 Donald T. Campbell Award of the Policy Studies Organization for creative<br/ contribution to the methodology of policy analysis. This book is based on his experience teaching students the principles of policy analysis<br/ and then helping them to execute their project work.