ABSTRACT

Reprinted with permission of the publisher from Eisinger, Peter K., and Gormley, William T., Jr., eds., The Midwest Response to the New Federalism. LaFollette Public Policy Series. © 1988 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), pp. 3–6. Peter K. Eisinger is professor and chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. William T. Gormley is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and associate director of the Robert M. LaFollette Institute.