Gubernatorial Transitions

• Foreword / Barry Van Lare vAcknowledgments ixIntroduction. Gubernatorial Transitions: Lessons from the 1982, 1983, and 1984 Elections / Thad L. Beyle 3Perspectives on Transition 1. Protecting Options / Robert Huefner 37Individual State Studies of the 1983 and 1984 Elections and Transitions 2. The Gubernatorial Transition in Kentucky, 1983–1984 / Malcolm E. Jewell and Philip Roeder 493. The Norm of Standing Aside: Gubernatorial Transition in Missouri in 1984 / Dean L. Yarwood and Richard J. Hardy 704. Gubernatorial Transition in North Carolina, 1984–1985 / Joel A. Thompson 1035. North Dakota's Gubernatorial Transition, 1984–1985: "Battling It Out in the Budgetary Badlands" / Theodore B. Pedeliski 1276. Gubernatorial Transition in Rhode Island, 1984–1985 / Elmer E. Cornwell Jr. 1617. The 1984–1985 Gubernatorial Transition in Utah: A Textbook Case / Lauren Holland and Robert Benedict 1858. The Gardner Transition: The Changing of the Guard in Washington / Herman D. Lujan 2179. 1984 Gubernatorial Transition in West Virginia: Rockefeller to Moore / David J. Webber 253Two Special Case Studies Gubernatorial Transition: An Incumbent Succession in Indiana / C. James Owen 279Lieutenant Governors: Gubernatorial Transitions in Missouri / Dean L. Yarwood 297Appendix: Outline for the State Analysts 305Notes 307Index 333Contributors 343

"Thad Beyle has done a splendid job, and this volume is a worthy successor to Gubernatorial Transitions: The 1982 Elections. The book adds much to this important subject both to practitioners and to instructors of state government."—Larry Sabato