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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 businesse...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Palmer, Kenneth T.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Politics and governments of the American states.
Subjects:
Local government > Maine.
Administration locale > Maine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Local government
Politics and government
Maine > Politics and government.
Maine > Politique et gouvernement.
Maine
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • State of the state
  • Maine's political culture : the New England frontier
  • Maine's traditional politics and its transformation
  • Contemporary Maine politics
  • The constitutional tradition
  • The state legislature
  • The governor and the administration
  • The court system
  • Maine's budget as policy
  • Contemporary policy concerns
  • Maine in the Federal system
  • Local government
  • Substate regionalism and state-local relations
  • Concluding observations
  • Maine documents and sources.

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