Frank J. Thompson is Dean of Rockefeller College at the State University of New York at Albany. He has published extensively on issues of health policy, policy implementation, public personnel policy, and administrative politics. His books include PERSONNEL POLICY IN THE CITY; HEALTH POLICY AND THE BUREAUCRACY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CHALLENGES, CHOICES, AND CONSEQUENCES; REVITALIZING STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE, and most recently, MEDICAID AND DEVOLUTION: A VIEW FROM THE STATES (co-editor and contributor). Thompson is former president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affair...