Edited by Eleanor D. Glor
Acknowledgements
Any book requires yeoman service by a large number of people-this one is
no exception. The other authors and I have been working on it for ten years, and have been
thinking about the issues involved for much longer. Many thanks to the authors for their
efforts to understand the issues involved and to respond to the guidance provided by the
editor. Thanks as well to those who provided input about the government, especially Alan
E. Blakeney and his cabinet members Walter
Smishek, Ted Bowerman, and others, many public servants of the government, including Mike
Costello, Albert Macdonald and some who wished to remain anonymous, and academics who
observe it, especially Ken Rasmussen and Howard Leeson. Thank you as well to the anonymous
reviewers who read three different versions of this book.