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Remote and thinly populated, Maine was long insulated from many of the demographic and economic trends of states to the south. Maine Politics and Government traces recent changes in the state's system as agriculture, manufacturing, and maritime trades have ceded dominance to high-tech businesses, extensive commercial development, and an expanding governmental sector

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the "First State." Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the "corporation capital of the world." Delaware's prime location has been central to its development and transition from a goods-producing economy to a fast-growing, service-based economy. Despite its diminutive size, Delaware is, in many ways, the nation's preferred corporate home.

Remote and thinly populated, Maine was long insulated from many of the demographic and economic trends of states to the south. Maine Politics and Government traces recent changes in the state's system as agriculture, manufacturing, and maritime trades have ceded dominance to high-tech businesses, extensive commercial development, and an expanding governmental sector.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the "First State." Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the "corporation capital of the world." Delaware's prime location has been central to its development and transition from a goods-producing economy to a fast-growing, service-based economy. Despite its diminutive size, Delaware is, in many ways, the nation's preferred corporate

"Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair's influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state's motto of Regnat Populus ("The People Rule") and the positive trends of democracy." "While maintaining the basic structure of Blair's original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of "the people.""--Jacket

Invitation to the Institute of Politics and Government Annual Salute to Politics Dinner which includes the program in honor of George Fisher's twenty-fifth anniversary as an editorial cartoonist. Includes a gallery of guests, caricatured by George Fisher; a brief description of Fisher's contributions; and a brief description and purpose of the Institute of Politics and Government.

Contents -- Tables, Maps, and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Past in the Present -- 2. Some Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Political Explanations -- 3. Traditional Politics and Its Transformation -- 4. Contemporary Political Patterns -- 5. Dealigned Voters and Disadvantaged Political Parties in Contemporary Arkansas -- 6. The Influence of Interest Groups -- 7. The Constitution: Provisions and Politics -- 8. The Power and Politics of the Executive Branch -- 9. The Power and Politics of the Legislative Branch -- 10. The Power and Politics of the Judicial Branch -- 11. Arkansas in the Federal System: Cooperation and Conflict -- 12. Politics at the Grassroots: How Democratic? -- 13. The Politics of State Services -- 14. Continuity and Change in Arkansas Politics -- 15. For the Future: Suggested Sources -- Notes -- Index