List of Tables and Maps, ix Series Preface, x Series Introduction, xii Authors' Preface, xxx Acknowledgments, xxxii ONE State of the State, 1 TWO Maine's Political Culture: The New England Frontier, 9 THREE Maine's Traditional Politics and Its Transformation, 32 FOUR Contemporary Maine Politics, 46 FIVE The Constitutional Tradition, 74 SIX The State Legislature, 92 SEVEN The Governor and the Administration, 113 EIGHT The Court System, 138 NINE Maine's Budget as Policy, 161 TEN Contemporary Policy Concerns, 195 ELEVEN Maine in the Federal System, 244 TWELVE Local Government, 268 THIRTEEN Substate Regionalism and State-Local Relations, 298 FOURTEEN Concluding Observations, 334 FIFTEEN Maine Documents and Sources, 342 Notes, 353 Index, 386
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