Gubernatorial Transitions

Foreword / Barry Van Lare v
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Gubernatorial Transitions: Lessons from the 1982, 1983, and 1984 Elections / Thad L. Beyle 3
Perspectives on Transition
1. Protecting Options / Robert Huefner 37
Individual State Studies of the 1983 and 1984 Elections and Transitions
2. The Gubernatorial Transition in Kentucky, 1983–1984 / Malcolm E. Jewell and Philip Roeder 49
3. The Norm of Standing Aside: Gubernatorial Transition in Missouri in 1984 / Dean L. Yarwood and Richard J. Hardy 70
4. Gubernatorial Transition in North Carolina, 1984–1985 / Joel A. Thompson 103
5. North Dakota's Gubernatorial Transition, 1984–1985: "Battling It Out in the Budgetary Badlands" / Theodore B. Pedeliski 127
6. Gubernatorial Transition in Rhode Island, 1984–1985 / Elmer E. Cornwell Jr. 161
7. The 1984–1985 Gubernatorial Transition in Utah: A Textbook Case / Lauren Holland and Robert Benedict 185
8. The Gardner Transition: The Changing of the Guard in Washington / Herman D. Lujan 217
9. 1984 Gubernatorial Transition in West Virginia: Rockefeller to Moore / David J. Webber 253
Two Special Case Studies
Gubernatorial Transition: An Incumbent Succession in Indiana / C. James Owen 279
Lieutenant Governors: Gubernatorial Transitions in Missouri / Dean L. Yarwood 297
Appendix: Outline for the State Analysts 305
Notes 307
Index 333
Contributors 343