Legislating Without Experience Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits

by Mooney, Christopher Z.; Powell, Richard J.; Green, John C.; Farmer, Rick; Green, John C.; Cain, Bruce; Farmer, Rick; Berman, David R.; Straayer, John A.; Mooney, Christopher Z.; Wright, Gerald C.; English, Art; Powell, Richard J.; Smith, Michael; Rosentha

• ISBN13: 9780739111444
• ISBN10: 0739111442
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-14
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, this volume develops comparisons of states with term limits to similar states without term limits. The comparisons are organized by levels of legislative professionalism.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Accelerating Change with Term Limits	p. 1
Professionalized State Legislatures
Institutional Imbalance: The Effect of Six-year Limits in California	p. 17
Legislative Power in the Buckeye State: The Revenge of Term Limits	p. 43
Truncated Careers in Professionalized State Legislatures	p. 55
Semi-Professionalized State Legislatures
The Effects of Legislative Term Limits in Arizona: More Churning, More Chaos, and a Diminished Institutional Role for Legislators	p. 75
Colorado Legislative Term Limits: The Worst of Both Worlds	p. 99
Out with the Old Heads and in with the Young Turks: The Effects of Term Limits in Semi-Professionalized State Legislatures	p. 121
Citizen Legislatures
Term Limits in the Arkansas General Assembly: A Citizen Legislature Responds	p. 145
Institutional Change and Legislative Term Limits in Maine	p. 169
It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen Legislatures	p. 187
Living with Term Limits	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 235
About the Contributors	p. 243
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