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