Shanna Rose, the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Management and Government and Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, published Raising the Floor: Federalism and the Politics of U.S. Minimum Wage Policy(The University of Chicago Press, 2026). The book examines how interest groups have navigated the highly decentralized American political system to shape the development of federal, state, and local minimum wage laws over the past century. In her analysis, Rose shows that federalism both fuels and constrains minimum wage policy—giving advocates pathways for innovation and diffusion while equipping opponents with tools of delay and preemption.