Kenneth T. Palmer is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Maine. G. Thomas Taylor is a professor of public administration at the University of Maine. Marcus A. LiBrizzi is an associate professor of English at the University of Maine, Machias. Jean E. Lavigne has taught at the University of Maine and was the director of Graduate Programs in Public Administration.

• List of Tables and Maps Authors' Preface to Second Edition Authors' Preface to First Edition ONE State of the State TWO Maine's Political Culture: The New England Frontier THREE Maine's Traditional Politics and Its Transformation FOUR Contemporary Maine Politics FIVE The Constitutional Tradition SIX The State Legislature SEVEN The Governor and the Administration EIGHT The Court System NINE Maine's Budget as Policy TEN Contemporary Policy Concerns ELEVEN Maine in the Federal System TWELVE Local Government THIRTEEN Substate Regionalism and State-Local Relations FOURTEEN Concluding Observations FIFTEEN Maine Documents and Sources Notes Index

Kenneth T. Palmer is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Maine. G. Thomas Taylor is a professor of public administration at the University of Maine. Marcus A. LiBrizzi is an associate professor of English at the University of Maine, Machias. Jean E. Lavigne has taught at the University of Maine and was the director of Graduate Programs in Public Administration.

• List of Tables and Maps Authors' Preface to Second Edition Authors' Preface to First Edition ONE State of the State TWO Maine's Political Culture: The New England Frontier THREE Maine's Traditional Politics and Its Transformation FOUR Contemporary Maine Politics FIVE The Constitutional Tradition SIX The State Legislature SEVEN The Governor and the Administration EIGHT The Court System NINE Maine's Budget as Policy TEN Contemporary Policy Concerns ELEVEN Maine in the Federal System TWELVE Local Government THIRTEEN Substate Regionalism and State-Local Relations FOURTEEN Concluding Observations FIFTEEN Maine Documents and Sources Notes Index

Kenneth T. Palmer is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Maine. G. Thomas Taylor is a professor of public administration at the University of Maine. Marcus A. LiBrizzi is an associate professor of English at the University of Maine, Machias. Jean E. Lavigne has taught at the University of Maine and was the director of Graduate Programs in Public Administration.

• List of Tables and Maps Authors' Preface to Second Edition Authors' Preface to First Edition ONE State of the State TWO Maine's Political Culture: The New England Frontier THREE Maine's Traditional Politics and Its Transformation FOUR Contemporary Maine Politics FIVE The Constitutional Tradition SIX The State Legislature SEVEN The Governor and the Administration EIGHT The Court System NINE Maine's Budget as Policy TEN Contemporary Policy Concerns ELEVEN Maine in the Federal System TWELVE Local Government THIRTEEN Substate Regionalism and State-Local Relations FOURTEEN Concluding Observations FIFTEEN Maine Documents and Sources Notes Index