The paper reports the experience of the State of Illinois using proprietary and nonproprietary vendors to provide in-home services to the elderly. The analysis suggests proprietary vendors were associated with a significant increase in service costs when vendors were allowed to determine service needs of clients. However, such differences disappeared as the state implemented effortso increase political oversight and competition. Copyright 1986 by The Policy Studies Organization.

In the spring of 1 986 he traveled to Nihon University in Tokyo as a guest lecturer. While there he completed with Professor Takematsu Abe a work on U. S. Presidential Elections and Campaign Styles, to be published in Japan. A comparative study of chief executives, which he helped write and edit, is under final revision. Frank is and will be missed. This time his motion to adjourn was not in order.

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In the spring of 1 986 he traveled to Nihon University in Tokyo as a guest lecturer. While there he completed with Professor Takematsu Abe a work on U. S. Presidential Elections and Campaign Styles, to be published in Japan. A comparative study of chief executives, which he helped write and edit, is under final revision.Frank is and will be missed. This time his motion to adjourn was not in order.

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